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Well, the good news was that we hit 73F yesterday - in Iowa - in the middle of December! But, the warm weather brought very severe winds that spawned t-storms and tornadoes. Lots of wind damage north of me and widespread power outages. While we had 50 - 60 mph winds here with our t-storm last night, it wasn't nearly as bad as the folks west and north that saw 80 - 90 mph winds - and the tornadoes! My power blinked a few times, but never went out. I'd planned ahead and had a pork butt ready for the unseasonably warm day. Overnight cook Tuesday. Finished up mid-morning Wednesday. Guru running at 250F, indirect, with smoker pot loaded with hickory and apple chunks. Followed Meatheat's advice and trimmed a lot of fat off and liberally salted it Monday night. He says that he likes this technique better than injecting (which had been my standard practice.) Tuesday morning it got the CYM treatment with 3 Eyz rub and Dizzy Pig Crossroads. Went on the KK at 10pm. Target was 203F, but pulled it off at 200F around 10am. It had gotten so windy by that point that the Guru controller kept getting blown over and coming unplugged. I didn't catch it in time and the fire went out. Once the KK started to drop in temp, no point in leaving the butt on the grill. I wrapped it in foil and put it in the cooler in the beach towel for 3 hours before I pulled it. And YES, there's pictures! Dinner was pulled pork sammies! Hard to say whether Meathead's technique worked better than injecting, but the results were just as good IMHO.

They have now declared Wednesday's storm to be a Derecho. Mine survived a direct hit during the derecho of Aug 2010. Top half of a very tall tree fell next to my deck and the metal framed hop trellis collapsed on it, too. This is the "after" pic, when I cleared everything off of it and took the cover off to inspect it. Not a scratch.

We’d go well together, that granny and me. She can eat the sweet stuff and me the savory!

And that his how you dress a pulled pork sandwich [mention=18]tony b[/mention]. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great planning, Tony, this time of the year one needs to adjust the cook to the weather conditions more than ever. A warm spell, make the most of it.

Tekobo decided to visit the elderly in an old folks home near her house. She figured they could use some good cheer for the Christmas season. She enters the room of the first granny and starts talking to her then notices a bowl of peanuts on the nightstand. Tekobo: Granny, I hate to ask you, but would you mind if I snacked on a few peanuts? Granny: Oh no problem miss. You’re so nice you go ahead and have all you want. So when Tekobo was ready to leave granny’s room she noticed that she ate all the peanuts. Tekobo: I’m so sorry! I ate every one of your peanuts. But don’t you worry, I’ll come back tomorrow with a whole bag of them for you. Granny: Oh don’t bother sweety. I can’t chew those things with my teeth anyway. I just suck the chocolate off of them.

Glad to hear you are in one piece but one thing that gives me peace of mind about the KK is that an F5 tornado could knock down my house but the 1600 pound behemoth 42SBB would likely survive and I could feed people right after disaster strikes. Anyway- if the tornado managed to carry away the KK, Rand Paul would be pissed about the pork spinnin'.