Posted on 01/20/2020 1:06:39 PM PST by Hojczyk
Some of the coldest, most miserable cold season camping I ever did was in FL, not Michigan. Was in a tent in a crappy park in Stuart mid-January 1985 when a massive record setting cold front moved through. 19° in West Palm Beach. This same system brought -24° to Ohio and Indiana. I saw icicles hanging from the beach access stairways in Jensen Beach. FL cold is damp cold, worst type of cold. I wear synthetic sleep wear in winter, since cottons just absorb the ambient air and it’s like sleeping in damp clothes.
When that season’s cold front hurt the orange crop, they said the damage would just worsen, since “groves were planted in the 30’s and 40’s when the temperatures were warmer, and the coming cooling trend” would kill warm weather crops. Ha.
I remember at UF, it got damn cold a few times in Gainesville in winter.
If this globull warming continues, we are all going to freeze to death!
More than 10 years, but yes. Created a beautiful bald.
GlobullWarming = Cold Weather or Hot Weather or Stormy Weather or Calm Weather. Just give Greta, Albert Gore and Bill Nye, the Non Science Guy all your money. They might let you live in a 7 by 7 shack...
This is all I care about. For some reason I have a fascination with those stupid pythons in Florida, and they say that if it ever froze even for one night in the Everglades it would kill them all.
I don’t know if one night would do the job. I have seen rattlesnakes sit in ice in a cooler for a couple of days and warm up as if nothing had happened.
We just missed it. We were in the 40’s yesterday while KC was in the deep freeze.
Up north I don’t have outside faucet problems until it is 15°F or less for 48 hrs, or inside pipe-next-to-exterior-wall problems until it is well below zero. But I understand why you are uneasy about it. And I probably have much more wall insulation.
Christmas 1989 - seen flurries in Tampa...
I don’t know if one night would be python genocide either but remember the python is tropical and the rattlesnake isn’t. Up here, rattlesnakes in their burrows get frozen all the time and still emerge in the late winter or spring. Pythons, as far as I know, aren’t adapted at all to cold conditions.
It would be OK here except there is about 18 inches exposed in the pump house. I have an old heated wrap somewhere which should do the job but easier to just let the faucet drip.
I hate this time of year in Florida. I moved from Maryland to escape these frigid temperatures. It’s 53 and dropping fast. Only one time of year I hate more and that’s hurricane season.
I’m thinking we just need to let the Cajuns turn them into a new delicacy. Then the snakes will be rare and expensive. I have faith.
Our daughters are there.. we met them for lunch Sat.. snow in the northern and elevated parts of the county.
This is what needed to kill those snakes!
They’ll just hybernate.
They scrubbed the launch today. Not sure when they are going to try again.
I am from Savannah. We saw lots of launches from the pier out on Tybee Island. I even caught a launch from I-95 at St. George, SC. (I parked in a rest area). Great fun!
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