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Jan. 9, 2010 8:30 a.m. wbjones HalfDork

last night ... 8° (where is global warming when you need it) snow was predicted but as usual didn't happen. our county is right on the demarcation line of the snow / didn't happen .... yet school gets called every time snow is called for... go figure....

I really don't think it's a faulty old farts memory when I recall school busses being driven by 16 yo students with chains and 1 - 3" of snow...

no wrecks, no law suits, no whinny parents waiting on the side of the road for their wimps to get off the bus and then transported by car 100 yds home...

seeing the temps for mid Florida... sure do hope it warms up by the end of the mo...
Jan. 9, 2010 8:51 a.m. cwh SuperDork

9:45am in SoFla- 40 degrees, gloomy, steady rain. Going into the low 30's tonight. Florida sunshine of the liquid variety. The fallen iguanas are dieing.
Jan. 9, 2010 9:25 a.m. 93celicaGT2 SuperDork

You should have seen the people of this great city panicking over the 3" of snow we got. Part of that was because the roads were horrible, though. I think we have 2 snow plows for the entire greater Indianapolis area.
Jan. 9, 2010 9:27 a.m. Wally UberDork

It's time to build a wall along the border. This time the CAnadian one, to keep their Artic air masses up where they belong.
Jan. 9, 2010 9:33 a.m. cwh SuperDork

I lived in Baltimore for a couple of years. That area was a hoot when 1/2" of snow fell. My office window looked out on the entry road to the complex, about 1/4 mile, gentle slope. One cold day we got black ice on that road. I watched 4 cars slide helplessly down the entire hill and bounce into a farm field on the other side of the intersection. Then an 18 wheeler started down. His wheels locked up immediately, he joind the cars across the intersection. Nobody got hurt, but it was amusing to watch.
Jan. 9, 2010 9:45 a.m. Jay Dork

I just saw somebody go to the grocery store on cross-country skis. She left them at the bike rack outside and went in to do her shopping. There's about a foot of fluffy powdery white stuff down here so I can't say it wasn't perfect conditions for it. Somehow this town continues to function normally.

In case you guys missed it, Britain is starring as Greenland in this year's school play.
Jan. 9, 2010 10:46 a.m. oldsaw HalfDork

Jay wrote:

In case you guys missed it, Britain is starring as Greenland in this year's school play.

Stunning photo; the whole freakin island is covered by a snow pack.

When is the last time that ever happened?
Jan. 9, 2010 11:02 a.m. minimac Dork

Wally wrote: It's time to build a wall along the border. This time the Canadian one, to keep their Arctic air masses up where they belong.

If we all point our fans to the north, maybe all that arctic air will stay in Canada where it belongs. It was so cold here last night I saw a dog stuck to a fire hydrant. The next town to us had 40 some inches of snow fall over the weekend. Good thing we only had about 33"!
Jan. 9, 2010 11:09 a.m. oldsaw HalfDork

I found a report earlier today that noted yesterday's low temperatures from the North and South poles were higher than a low temp recorded (yesterday) in Minnesota.

Doing some quick addition of the polar readings I realized the sum still wasn't as cold as found in MN. Ughh........
Jan. 9, 2010 11:13 a.m. BoxheadTim HalfDork

oldsaw wrote:

Jay wrote:

In case you guys missed it, Britain is starring as Greenland in this year's school play.

Stunning photo; the whole freakin island is covered by a snow pack.

When is the last time that ever happened?

Quite a while ago - most of my friends here mention something about 1963. It's been snowing off and on for days now, which is extremely unusual here in the Southeast of the UK. I didn't have much trouble getting my wife to the airport this morning but boy am I glad I bought some snow tyres for my Mercedes DD.

I think there's about 4" snow on the Integrale, got to take a picture of that tomorrow...
Jan. 9, 2010 11:15 a.m. stuart in mn SuperDork

-11F at 11am in Minneapolis. It's supposed to warm up to 30 by the middle of the week, though.
Jan. 9, 2010 11:29 a.m. minimac Dork

I remember seeing a commercial a couple of years ago and they mentioned how brutal winter in Alaska was, they get 66" of snow. I had to laugh- that's less than we get in a month!
Jan. 9, 2010 11:45 a.m. neon4891 UberDork

Not too bad here. High 20's during the day, single digits at night and I just cleared our 10"s of snow.
Jan. 9, 2010 12:42 p.m. Capt Slow HalfDork

My sister decided this winter would be a good time to do a semester in Oslo (Norway). upon her arrival she sent me a very simple email:

-44C

I laughed my ass off
Jan. 9, 2010 5:36 p.m. DirtyBird222 Dork

today in Florida it was so cold I had icicles hanging from the rear spoiler of my mustang.
Jan. 9, 2010 5:54 p.m. kabel Dork

CagleRacing wrote: Today, it was so cold that...
...there were snow flurries at the Daytona Speedway during Rolex test days.
Jan. 9, 2010 5:55 p.m. mtn SuperDork

DirtyBird222 wrote:

today in Florida it was so cold I had icicles hanging from the rear spoiler of my mustang.

I've had icicles all the way to the ground from every thing that could possibly have an icicle on it on my car since Dec. 15ish.
Jan. 9, 2010 6:44 p.m. porksboy Dork

Back in the early 60's my father wintered over on the South Pole as a civilian contractor. He complained to his boss that it was cold. He told him "it could be worse".

Then they sent all of us to the edge of the Sahara desert. Again he complained as it was too hot. Again the boss told him "It could be worse"

Damned if they didnt prove it by sending us to Long Island.
Jan. 9, 2010 9:47 p.m. jefmed2 New Reader

snugwow would be great for long road trips in this weather ,no getting out of the car in the cold to go pee javascript:;
Jan. 9, 2010 10:14 p.m. SkinnyG Reader

jefmed2 wrote:

no getting out of the car in the cold to go pee javascript:;

Pee Javascript? Now THAT's cold!
Jan. 9, 2010 10:42 p.m. miwifri New Reader

Hmmm, it's -6'F outside the kitchen right now and going down.
Jan. 9, 2010 11:00 p.m. M2Pilot New Reader

It was so cold here today that I saw a politician with his hands in his own pockets.
Jan. 9, 2010 11:19 p.m. DirtyBird222 Dork

mtn wrote:

DirtyBird222 wrote:

today in Florida it was so cold I had icicles hanging from the rear spoiler of my mustang.

I've had icicles all the way to the ground from every thing that could possibly have an icicle on it on my car since Dec. 15ish.

This is Florida...not Buffalo...there should not be such things as icicles. Guess it's all that butane (or bastard gas) coming out of cow's arses causing global warming.
Jan. 9, 2010 11:51 p.m. Kia_racer Reader

I saw the 10pm news here in Dallas and they said it was the first time the entire state was below freezing. Even Brownsville was at 28F. Broken water mains everywhere.
Jan. 10, 2010 12:06 a.m. xci_ed6 HalfDork

I spent the summer going back and forth between Iowa & Florida. It was nicer in Florida. It gets just as hot & humid in Iowa, but Jacksonville got an afternoon rain almost every day that made the evenings very nice.

Now I'm in Florida for the winter, and people keep telling me that if it snows society shuts down because the ice is worse, and whatever. I had 3 to 4 inches of ice on the road in front of my house last year. Ice. There was snow on top of the ice, and I had to chip the tires loose in the mornings because they would freeze, like sticking your tongue to a pole.

I can see there being problems because of unfamiliar drivers, but Iowa has the same teething problems the first snow of every year. One year some friends and I took lawn chairs and beer to a downhill corner near the Iowa State campus just to watch, the morning of the first snow.

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