stefan
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Post by stefan on Jan 14, 2007 19:29:59 GMT -5
Yea if you got power issues- better to turn them off (especially at 15 degrees!) Michiganrockhound had a barrel freeze solid on him last winter (we all said it could not happen- but it did) but I think he was tumbling at something like 10 BELOW!-
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Post by rockds on Jan 14, 2007 19:49:09 GMT -5
It's colder than a witch's, well you get the idea
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flatumbler
starting to spend too much on rocks
Now totally addicted!!!
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Post by flatumbler on Jan 14, 2007 19:55:07 GMT -5
Wow I really feel for you all, and here I am in my shorts and muscle tshirt running around the yard figuring where im gonna start planting this coming years flower beds and watching the kids in the go-kart driving around. Terrible, just terrible, did I mention we had a great family cookout today with some friends and family over? he he he
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Post by ladyt on Jan 14, 2007 20:24:20 GMT -5
Florida, don't ya love it??!! LOL
Tonja ;D
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spacegold
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Post by spacegold on Jan 14, 2007 23:22:05 GMT -5
Where is global warming when you need it? It froze here in Apache Junction (Elevation 1400), AZ last night and getting cold again tonight. But that's a heck of a lot better than Ninilchik which won't see zero again for another month. I can hardly wait to get back. Not.
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Post by lonewolfrockhound on Jan 15, 2007 1:06:11 GMT -5
but I think he was tumbling at something like 10 BELOW!- LOL! That's hard core....gotta respect that.  |
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Post by takilasunrise on Jan 15, 2007 10:39:10 GMT -5
It's currently 25 degrees F. with a wind chill of 15 degrees F. It's snowing right now. Yesterday, there was a "chance of snow showers". As we were settling in last night, the radio announcer said we were getting 4-6 inches overnight. We woke up to at least 5 inches and we're supposed to get another inch or two. Ours started out as freezing drizzle, but because the temps weren't too cold, it wasn't too bad scraping the car windows this morning. Once the car heated up, it melted away real quick. For SE WI, this has been a very mild winter. Our last snow was on Dec. 1st, but it was a blizzard & we got 17"! We've broken temp. records for the last month (above normal). So I'm not complaining!! I'm a So. Cal. native. I moved back here when I was 12 years old. I remember we moved back here in the middle of winter, and we arrived during a snow storm (what a shock to us!). Being a Calif. kid, I was about to run outside barefoot to get something out of the car. As soon as I opened the door, I realized we weren't in California anymore!!
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Post by lonewolfrockhound on Jan 15, 2007 10:56:05 GMT -5
I'm a So. Cal. native. I moved back here when I was 12 years old. I remember we moved back here in the middle of winter, and we arrived during a snow storm (what a shock to us!). Being a Calif. kid, I was about to run outside barefoot to get something out of the car. As soon as I opened the door, I realized we weren't in California anymore!! Ha! Southern Cal. does spoil a person for weather doesn't it? My! I moved back to West Texas in '94 after spending 14 years in Orange County. All over it. Mostly Costa Mesa/Huntington Beach area though. I came back to Snyder, I was single and going to go back to school so I lived in a cheap trailer outside of town. I moved back May 31st and spend my first night in the trailer probably June 2nd or so. Smack in the middle of Spring storm season. Went to bed and about midnight or so......KABOOM! CRASH! KABAM! Good Lord there was wind and lightning and thunder and the damn trailer was rocking and then it began to hail! Holy Moley! It was like being in a damn can with somebody banging on it with a thousand drum sticks! Deafening! This went on for 20 minutes I bet! One of the reasons I left So. Cal. was that Northridge quake scared the chit outta me.....but, for a time there in that trailer, I was wondering just what the heck I'd done by moving back in the middle of tornado alley....lol Sorry for the derail.  |
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Post by takilasunrise on Jan 15, 2007 11:39:41 GMT -5
I was born in Riverside, CA and lived in Orange, CA until I was 12. I lived there for a year when I was in 9th grade, and then I moved to San Diego when I was 19 and moved away 7 years later. After my parents split up when I was a kid, my dad and step-family and uncle lived in Huntington Beach. I experienced quite a few earthquakes, the worst one in 1971. I still remember it, though I was only 8 years old at the time. I rarely remember rain, but I do remember the Santa Ana winds where we'd see tumbleweeds come blowing down our street in the city! Also remember having "smog alert" days, too. We weren't allowed to play during recess at school. Oh, yeah, we also had earthquake drills where we had to get under our desks. People back here used to ask me wasn't I scared to live out there. I'd say, not really, you don't know when earthquakes will hit. Out here, you usually know ahead of time about approaching storms/tornadoes; earthquakes don't give any warnings, except a few seconds prior when your pets are already sensing it or the alarms in your vehicles are going off! I love experiencing the change of seasons since I've lived here and Colorado. I could never live there again.
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Post by lonewolfrockhound on Jan 15, 2007 11:48:53 GMT -5
I was born in Riverside, CA and lived in Orange, CA until I was 12. Hey! I'm familiar with Riverside! I used to work at an autoparts store in Ontario right off the 91 freeway and Euclid I think it was. Lord, I'd take the 55 to the 57 and then to the 91. I don't miss that traffic at all I can tell ya that! |
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Post by takilasunrise on Jan 15, 2007 12:01:32 GMT -5
Southern Calif. traffic sucks!! I don't miss it at all! Going to the grocery store was a big deal sometimes!
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Post by lonewolfrockhound on Jan 15, 2007 12:04:51 GMT -5
And lines of people at EVERYTHING. Didn't matter what it was for, there was a line. |
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Post by lonewolfrockhound on Jan 15, 2007 20:16:22 GMT -5
Crap! Now they're saying it will be 12 tonight here! That's not wind chill either! Snow predicted too!
WTH?
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spikeict
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Post by spikeict on Jan 15, 2007 21:27:31 GMT -5
Rollining, I meant the banner at the top of the page, ebay picked up on the word and was trying to sell them with a wide selection, sorry I was not clear.
I am certainly not trying one up anyone, but let me tell you about ice and being cold. Many years ago my GF (then) and I moved into a farm house that had not been touched (let alone lived in) for ten years. For three years I busted my ass clearing trees, brush, and fixing up the house to be liveable and to make it so that her dad could drive the farm equipment to the barn and the machine shed. I was working in Wichita then and one afternoon the temp was 48 degrees and it started to rain, the water froze to my windshield as soon as it hit. I called my boss in KC told him something was very wrong and was headed for home. I was still 40 miles out when the roads started to ice over. Three hours later I was home and the ice build up began to take it's toll.
Behind the house was a tree over a hundred years old so you can imagine the size of it's limbs, they began to break! Everytime it sounded like a shotgun going off. The elec. went off also, the next morning we found a icey forest broken or bent over touching the ground, not to mention the electric and telephone lines.
It took the heart out of me, all the work I had done gone. My Gf went to her mothers 60 miles north but I stayed. I was without electric for two and half weeks, I had one propane heater that did not need power in the back end of the house, and the propane lasted six days. I could see lights come on at farms around me, first two miles away then days later one mile away, but it took another week for them to get to me after I had seen the last one come on elsewhere.
Two points to this story: Ice sucks, and it could be worse!!
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Post by akansan on Jan 16, 2007 9:16:41 GMT -5
You know Spikeit, the funny part about all of this for me is I left Kansas because of the ice storms! I was in KC during the ice storm in 2001 (or was it 2002?) that left me without power for eight days. When I moved down here, I said to myself - at least I won't have any more ice storms...
*sigh* Looks just like Kansas outside right now.
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Post by lonewolfrockhound on Jan 16, 2007 9:33:15 GMT -5
It was an abnormally strong cold front this time. I saw the weather map and it pushed all the way into the gulf of Mexico.
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blarneystone
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Post by blarneystone on Jan 16, 2007 10:35:24 GMT -5
It's a little chilly here in Houston today, temps hovering between 32*- 34* but still no frozen rain... They say we should get some this evening.
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Post by lonewolfrockhound on Jan 16, 2007 10:57:07 GMT -5
Dan, in 1978, I worked as a framer's apprentice in Houston. One of the COLDEST times in my life, when I personally was cold to the bone, was that winter in Houston. A front like this one moved in and I had to work in the crap. So much cold moisture in the air I couldn't get warm. Even with layers on. Hated it....lol
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blarneystone
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Post by blarneystone on Jan 16, 2007 11:42:32 GMT -5
It's funny because I can count the number of times on one hand that it's snowed here in the past 40 years. I remember that year because I had to work in it as well... a few of my buddies came by work and threw snow balls at me... hehe..
10 years ago we had a solid week of below freezing temps and ice storms, that was really bad, Houston is not prepared for that kind of weather. In 2004 we got snow on Christmas eve but that was nice.
I'm actually hoping we get some of the frozen precip today.. we need a good freeze every year to kill off the mosquitoes!
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