Posted on 01/07/2014 5:58:17 PM PST by Hojczyk
I survived (barely!) the Ice Storm of ‘76 up here in Wisconsin. Ice coated everything; inches and inches of it. Downed power lines and a lot of the trees in our yard were ruined.
We were stuck in our house for a week with no electricity. We had to pee in a bucket! Mom cleaned out the freezers and Dad fired up the grill and we ate like kings and pretty much fed the neighborhood.
The worst part? I was a 16 year old girl at the time - WITH NO PHONE SERVICE! OMG! The Humanity! LOL!
So the media states that Polar vortex causes global cooling AND global warming. Which is it? Or is it both?
Time Mag Flashback: 1974 Issue Warns of Man-Made ‘Global Cooling’
By Greg Sheffield | July 24, 2006 | 09:48
“Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex”...
http://newsbusters.org/node/6546
I agree with your sleeping bag requirement.
Why a plumber’s candle? They last a certain amount of hours, between 6 and 8.
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-10433.html
More blizzards in history.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/?n=biggestsnowstorms-us
(Excluding Western U.S. storms along the Rocky Mountains and Intermountain West, and purely lake-effect snow events.)
And I remember some doozys between these dates!
Here are a few more not mentioned.
Boston, The GREAT SNOW OF 1717. 108 inches. (Glo-bull Warming I tell you! Global Warming!)
Buffalo, NY 1977. 199 inches.
http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/the-biggest/the-top-10-biggest-snowstorms-ever-recorded/
The common camping lantern by UCO uses a 9 hour candle that is in all the camping stores everywhere, I have switched to their version that uses the cheaper ‘tea candle’, since I am a flashlight guy with hi-tech flashlights that run for 100 hours on single batteries, etc, and carry plenty of sleeping and wearing gear, I only carry the candles for melting snow into water, or thawing my food.
http://www.rei.com/product/838881/uco-original-candle-lantern-value-pack
Thats pretty bad in minn. Sorry to hear that 4 degrees is that big of a deal. The weather channel talking about danger, really hyperbole. Some Virginia schools opening late . Didnt when i was a kid. I guess they wanted a day off, because it hasnt snowed so far except nothernn va and mountains
The one good thing about living in South Florida in 1978.
Minnesota had it’s good points. Driving was not one of them.
I understand not putting kids in actual danger but it just seems kids are so over protected these days. They can't handle life.
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