Weather is unbearable
01-09-09, 09:58 AM
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Well, it has been cold here I had to put socks on!!! 
I am sure you all feel for me.
And we don't have hot weather - either.
I am sure you all feel for me.And we don't have hot weather - either.
01-09-09, 10:33 AM
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Gloating is not only bad form, it's bad karma. Keep it up, it'll come back to visit you in the future.
01-09-09, 02:26 PM
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01-09-09, 03:39 PM
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01-09-09, 04:22 PM
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@ the op:
i want to punch you in the face
forcasted temperature for early next week:
-30 degrees Fahrenheit before the windchill
i'll be riding
i want to punch you in the face
forcasted temperature for early next week:
-30 degrees Fahrenheit before the windchill
i'll be riding
01-09-09, 10:33 PM
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01-10-09, 01:30 AM
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I can't believe that weather in Texas is better than here right now. (I froze my @$$ off at the Dallas airport a few years back.) Guess I can take comfort in the fact that rednecks don't drive by swinging bats and pieces of rebar at me.
And to all you bitter northern folk, yes, I was b----ing during the summer.
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01-10-09, 09:31 PM
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01-10-09, 10:18 PM
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Little Rock can't make up it's mind. Last Saturday it was 77 degrees and blue skies. On Monday the high was about 32. Freezing rain made it a winter wonderland of icicles on the trees.
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01-10-09, 10:33 PM
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I hope that earthquake didn't do much harm to you. I was worrying about you when I heard about it. Those can be scary.
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01-10-09, 11:27 PM
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Well here in Rainsville we have had it all in the last three weeks. Gobs of snow and wind and icy roads and then the Pineapple express arrived with a river in the sky dumping around 9 inches of rain in the mountains and anywhere from 2 to 7 inches of rain in the lowlands depending on where you live. All that warmer weather and rain helped melt a lot of the mountain snows and low and behold instant flooding again depending on where you lived. I live in the valley but we didn't flood but blocks away where its a good bit lower the freeway flooded and then I think every river in western Washington over flowed its banks at some stretch. My wifes parents had flood water in the garage but the house was ok because they had it raised 3 feet after the 1996 floods. The family is trying to get them to sell out to the Puyallup tribe and get something in a retirment community but try getting a hard headed old man to leave his home of almost 60 years. Ain't gonna happen. Oh yeah to the OP you still live in Texas. My sister lives near Houston and the worst three months of my life were 3 days in Houston in August.
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01-11-09, 12:22 PM
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I grew up in that area. South Texan's are highly adapted to punch-you-in-the-face heat. He won't even feel it!
01-11-09, 02:50 PM
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Cold FINALLY made it down here.
Was in the upper 50s with 20+ mile per hour winds last evening when I went out running. I got a lot of strange looks because I had on a long sleeve shirt with shorts.
I think the cold is scheduled to actually reach this far south on Thursday.
I lived in Mankato, MN for 5 years and made snow there. I was outside on the coldest day of the year (historically) in Minnesota. I believe it was somewhere near -60 below zero that day. So I scoff at your attempts at normalizing the sub-zero temps. I know exactly what they're like
Although I do have to agree with single digits feeling 'hot' after that winter.
You adapt to where you live.
As far as karma, you're probably more right than you know, but its no reason to be any less mocking than I already am!
I am thinking about you poor suckers at least, and worried about Calif and the rest of the West Coast. You guys take care! I grew up there in Chino and have family all over the S.B., LBC and Inland Empire.
Was in the upper 50s with 20+ mile per hour winds last evening when I went out running. I got a lot of strange looks because I had on a long sleeve shirt with shorts.
I think the cold is scheduled to actually reach this far south on Thursday.
I lived in Mankato, MN for 5 years and made snow there. I was outside on the coldest day of the year (historically) in Minnesota. I believe it was somewhere near -60 below zero that day. So I scoff at your attempts at normalizing the sub-zero temps. I know exactly what they're like
Although I do have to agree with single digits feeling 'hot' after that winter.
You adapt to where you live.
As far as karma, you're probably more right than you know, but its no reason to be any less mocking than I already am!
I am thinking about you poor suckers at least, and worried about Calif and the rest of the West Coast. You guys take care! I grew up there in Chino and have family all over the S.B., LBC and Inland Empire.
