Posted on 12/30/2018 8:29:40 AM PST by BenLurkin
Yes, I can tell watching on TV that you miss a lot of detail not being there in person.
Forecast says lows in the mid 40s Monday night/Tuesday morning. Must be global warming to the rescue.
20s and 30s are exceptionally low temps for lowland SoCal.
Lots of wall heaters will be running all night. Frozen water pipes everywhere!
Depends on what you're acclimated to. Live in SoCal for a few years and you'll be grabbing a sweater or jacket when it gets down to 50.
Not really. It's a matter of what temps your body gets acclimated to.
Living in SoCal, you get accustomed to warmer average temperatures than in most places around the country.
My father was caught outside duck hunting when the Great Armistice Day Blizzard of !940 hit. His shotgun was left behind as he struggled home. He insisted that winter cold blast in San Francisco a few years later felt colder.
I’m a SoCal native. I once spent a winter in England, and thought I’d die from the cold. There was ice and snow out every day for months. The only time I was comfortably warm, was when I curled up under the covers at night.
I returned home to L.A. in January, and was immediately in heaven because the average daytime temps were around 50 degrees. I’ll never forget chuckling at all the Angelenos bundled up hard against the ‘cold’.
Well, that’s why I laugh when people say, “LEAVE CALIFORNIA”.
I will never live anywhere there is either item
1. Humidity
2. Snow
You could not pay me enough!
Unless you live up in the mountains, that's one problem you don't have in SoCal.
I got my first experience with that when we moved to Texas a dozen years ago. Thankfully, neighbors were kind enough to teach us some basics about living in an area that gets real winter.
“Lots of wall heaters will be running all night.”
Next month the La Times headlines will read, High Electric Bills Blamed on Climate Change
So when isn’t it frigging freezing when you spend New Year’s Eve camped out on Colorado Blvd?
You’re sitting at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains and it feels like all the frigid air that belongs up on those peaks is rolling down on you.
People with any sense have motor homes parked nearby that they can go to to warm up. And to pee. There’s nowhere to pee! You’re drinking hot coffee all night and it becomes critical.
Once was enough, in my 20s.
“I would like to see the Rose Parade in person sometime. “
Ha. You have to camp overnight to do that. You’re sitting on lawn chairs or concrete for hours, it’s absolutely freezing. You aren’t going to get any sleep. The floats look smaller in person than on tv, at least to me. It kinda has a party atmosphere, if you threw a party on an ice flow.
If you’re not young & dumb you’d want to go the grandstand route. Not sure what that would cost but it would be the best way to see the parade in person.
I did it a few times as a kid and a couple times as an adult - once when my first two boys were little. But arriving at 5 am for the church pancake breakfast and paid seats on the bleachers. Not sleeping on The Blvd
I’d do it again. One day. It’s worth it and it’s just one day.
Yes........family member comes north her to Pa in the late summer early fall and thinks it’s cold. They’re so use to the extreme heat and humidity that our summers feel cool to them.
I recall a very light dusting of snow in Florida one year, my brother shared people weren’t accustomed to driving on slippery roads and they were going into the ditches everywhere!
my friends in Carmel won’t ever leave either....nice comfortable weather all year. Though she sometimes misses seeing the snow it passes quickly! Ha!
Bleachers are the only way I’d want to do it again. Unless I could wrangle an invite to one of the businesses that line the route, that might be even better.
The year I went in the early 70s... we got there at maybe 10 pm. You have to get there early to get a spot because there’s plenty of other crazy people who think that freezing their ass off sitting on Colorado Blvd is a good idea.
I think I’d rather help decorate the floats. I had a couple of chances but I was too busy with work to be able to spare the time, plus the drive up from OC.
I have gone to several Rose Bowl Games, and I’d recommend that to anyone, no matter whether you’re a football fan or not.
That’s what I would do as a travel package. Haven’t checked prices.
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