When the weather gets this bad, I'll say to my enviro-whacko friends, “I could use some global warming right about now.” Fun watching them implode at that remark.
***I lived through the winter of 1976-1977 when the temperature dropped below 0 and stayed there for almost 3 months.***
If I remember, that was the year we had complete cloud coverage over all the continental USA. I think it was for a month. I came down with pneumonia, lived in an uninsulated house, used a winter’s supply of hay for the cattle in one month, a real bad year.
The Thanksgiving of 1976 was so cold we canceled a deer hunting trip because it was so cold and blowing! Our kin brought their camper and decided to stay in it that night. Sometime in the night, they came in and slept on the floor of the house. We used a huge tank of propane (400 dollars worth) in a month.
The spring of 1977 was just as bad with a very deep snow. I was trying to drive to work when my truck decided to turn it’s self around in the road and head back to the house.
I hate winter!
the winter of 76-77 were bloody cold. I remember them closing my Catholic school the entire month because they had no heat.