Everyone OK??

[ReineV]

I was just wondering how our friends in the north/midwest are doing since the ridiculously cold temperatures have made most of the north and midwest feel like the artic tundra!

[dominick]

It's not all that bad. It's hard on the cars, though. I've been getting call after call to tend to cars that have fallen to the sub-zero stuff we've had the past few days. Yesterday morning I was outside in the street trying to coax my girlfriend's POS Topaz back to life; it was an honest negative 8 with a wind chill of negative 30. I was not very happy, but I got it started and enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate afterwards knowing I had earned it :lol:. I'll be happy as long as our pipes stay unfrozen.

Thanks for the concern.
(puts boots on to go shovel the new snow)
-Tony
:eek:

[Christy Carol]

Tony guess you dont want to hear it was in the low 60's here today...


*ducks from flying snow boot* :D

[dominick]

No, seriously, I like the cold. It was ten degrees today and while I was shoveling I actually paused and said to myself "hey, it's pretty nice out here." It's been a bit extreme lately, but you have to take the bad with the good I suppose. I don't think I'd be happy at all right now if it were 60°. It will be warm and even hot soon enough, and I will be waiting for it to snow again!

[TwinkleLights25]

It snowed here! Hubby got to work safe, hope he gets home safe in the morning too.

Dunno if it's still snowing or not.

[Christy Carol]

No, seriously, I like the cold. It was ten degrees today and while I was shoveling I actually paused and said to myself "hey, it's pretty nice out here." It's been a bit extreme lately, but you have to take the bad with the good I suppose. I don't think I'd be happy at all right now if it were 60°. It will be warm and even hot soon enough, and I will be waiting for it to snow again!

I dont mind the cold if it is snowing. We got around 2.25 inches last Thursday night and by Friday noon it was gone and just cold. We have had so much cold I want it to be warmer some...or snow and this time stick around for a while!! I guess I am too picky!

It was a nice break though but I misjudged the temp...it actually got up to 67. And you are right about the heat, it will be here soon enough and then I will be begging for some relief. July and August are normally the hottest (and longest) months around here and I dread them terribly.

[dominick]

Next week we're supposed to have highs in the upper 20s and lower 30s, and I will enjoy it immensely. That's warm enough for me to even work outside comfortably. Heck, I guarantee there will be a couple nuts walking around in shorts, although there always are. I just hope that when it does thaw that we get to enjoy a long, mild spring and a summer less harsh than last year's. Unfortunately the change of seasons around here is usually less than graceful and transitions between cold and hot several times with no medium. We're lucky to see a week of "spring". :-?

[Christy Carol]

I look forward to the warmth but I actually shudder when I think of spring. Ours will start soon, by the end of this month we will be experiencing severe storms. Last year it seemed like it stormed for a month straight (March) and then it was hot. I had so many plans for working in my yard and then when it finally stopped storming it turned so hot I couldnt stand it. Funny thing is, we never stopped having storms. Normally when summer really hits it dries up but not last year. We had a severe storm on the 4th while we were at the river. I know they call them heat showers but the lightening was unreal. If you havent figured it out I am deathly scared of storms. :-?

[dominick]

I've been through enough violent storms to where they don't really bother me anymore. Some of the ones that hit my Grandparent's house in Monticello, IN when I was growing up really did it for me. I've seen funnel clouds forming over the lake within a few hundred feet from me, iron patio furniture thrown like it was doll house furniture, and a tree taller than the two story house uprooted pulling a 2' slab of concrete with it. The only thing I really dread about the storms is that it seems if a dog pees on a pole around here, we lose power for two days.

[Jeff Westover]

It's during times like this that we see the bias in the national media. We had the subzero temps for three weeks in January before it FINALLY moved east and it got nary a mention. So I'm trying hard to feel bad for all those folks "back east" who are feeling the artic blast.

All the while we were freezing we had to endure endless stories about the mild winter back east and the effects of Global Warming. Funny how a bit of cold stopped the political talk of GW cold. Ha.

Anyway, be SAFE. The cold takes a ton out of you.

Now that the cold is gone we want the SNOW back. We haven't had any decent snow out west since before Christmas.

Jeff

[dominick]

We haven't been getting much snow, but honestly I wouldn't care if I didn't see another flake until October. I like having the snow before and around Christmas, but the stuff really makes life difficult sometimes. Every time it snows, you'd think that the drivers around here had never seen the stuff before.

[ReineV]

snow....heh....I WISH! here in Atlanta, we get nothing but threats of "wintry mixes" that turn out to be a couple of pellets of sleet mixed with a 24 hour rain shower. the temperature and conditions always stay a little too warm for snow to fall, let alone stick to the ground. i haven't seen snow on the ground in over four years i think

[e_xander]

I know they call them heat showers but the lightening was unreal. If you havent figured it out I am deathly scared of storms. :-?

I think heat lightning is really cool to watch from a distance. It looks like God is putting on a dance/light show.

Of course, Christy, you know about me and storms though. Send your storms up near me. (Not near any heavily populated areas. Don't need any more deaths due to storms.) I'll chase them down and send you pics.

Sean

[dominick]

Sean, I saw a couple spectacular lightning storms while I was living in Houston. A bolt would start on one end of the sky and spider off for miles and miles. I got some pictures of it the one night, but when I went home to upload them, the power surged and it wiped my card. :-?

[dvdguy]

thats funny :???:

[dominick]

I was definitely not laughing at the time. :x

I still wish I had those pictures.

[Christy Carol]

Sean you can have them ALL! You need to bring your chasing down here for a spring season and you might change your mind. Some friends of mine and myself were talking about it tonite and we were all saying how we dread it. If I survive Monday, then you come right on down here and do some chasing...I have a bed ready for you and a washing machine to clean out your drawers!! LOL!!

[mrshamm]

we've got roughly 6 inches of snow under 1/2 inch of ice so, it's slow going here. My little boy is sick and is really upset because he wants to go outside and play in the snow.

[e_xander]

Sean, I saw a couple spectacular lightning storms while I was living in Houston. A bolt would start on one end of the sky and spider off for miles and miles.

When I was younger, we spent a 4th of July up at my cousins resort in northern Wisconsin. He had a big display of fireworks that he was setting off. It was cloudy and threatening of storms that day, but nothing was happening. When he set off the grand finale, I was on a little hill watching them and then the skies opened up to a huge lightning display! It was awesome. Almost as if God was saying, "You cannot show me up!"

Sean

[HolyNight7]

All the while we were freezing we had to endure endless stories about the mild winter back east and the effects of Global Warming. Funny how a bit of cold stopped the political talk of GW cold. Ha. Jeff

Couldn't agree more.

[MerrySouthernChristmas]

I'm all for snow, but, i heard in New York, they had 10 feet. That's a bit much for me.

[dvdguy]

upstate had a load thats for sure

[ReineV]

upstate had a load thats for sure

yea they sure did! my grandma, aunt and uncle are in Buffalo, NY said they couldn't leave the house for days