Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 31, 2019 10:44:59 GMT -5
I was working in the oilfields in North Dakota in the early 1980's and a cold front came through... It lasted over a month! Temps dipped down into the -55 range for over a week! That didn't included the wind chills! With the wind, it was around -76 -87 !!! COld Cold Cold! It even shut down the oilfield, which you rarely see! Snow was deep, nobody allowed any kind of travel.. They had emergency crews on snowmobiles to get medicine and etc to people.. Roads weren't even plowed, so cold that the cold would snap iron on the plows!!
I have worked cattle ranches up there too, in -35 weather...So yes their winters are brutal, but its a tough breed living there... Sweads, Norwegians and Germans.. This they shall get through too...…
We had an old saying in ND... "At least it keeps the rif raf out"......
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 31, 2019 11:16:58 GMT -5
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Post by fernwood on Jan 31, 2019 11:21:54 GMT -5
Fossilman Love the photo. rockjunquie Thank you for the deletion. AS of now, all pipes and sewer drains in my house are frozen except kitchen sink and bathroom faucet. But, tumbler is still rolling away, even though all water pipes in utility room are frozen. Everything is going as planned. Checked all barrels and they are not frozen. Thankfully temps will be increasing this afternoon. Heat wave of above freezing this weekend should thaw everything out.
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Post by parfive on Jan 31, 2019 14:10:21 GMT -5
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Post by fernwood on Jan 31, 2019 14:21:56 GMT -5
Crazy. Temps this AM were warmer in the Arctic than in Central WI.
My Husky is ready and very willing to join a Wisconsin dog sled team. Just what she needs. Is trained to pull a sled solo, has never been with a team before. J/K, but she needs to run and pull something. Way too much energy and I cannot take her for a long walk on a 50' lunge line or get ATV out of the garage. She loves to pull the ATV. A very strong dog for sure.
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quartz
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breakin' rocks in the hot sun
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Post by quartz on Feb 1, 2019 0:06:05 GMT -5
The evening news said it was -14 in Hell [Michigan].
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Post by MsAli on Feb 1, 2019 10:16:40 GMT -5
My mom this morning said "Holy moly its warm in here" -2 😂
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Post by stephan on Feb 2, 2019 0:15:24 GMT -5
In spite of it all THEY are still successfully selling the Global Warming Hoax. Weather and climate are not the same thing.
That said, Australia is having a heat wave, much of California was in the 60s and 70s, and the globe as a whole was about half a degree warmer than average.
2019 is predicted to be the hottest year on record. Not looking forward to that, since each summer seems to be getting more miserable out here, both in terms of the heat, and the fires it spurs.
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Post by stephan on Feb 2, 2019 11:24:41 GMT -5
And in the most scientific of studies -- Groundhog Day -- Spring is predicted to come early. 😂
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