Posted on 01/30/2019 6:25:43 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Are you talking to me?
Pfffttt.
Yes, cowboy up.
The Snow Plows quit running and the fuel stations have shut down. Perhaps you can attach a 2x4 to your SUV front grill and show us how to push the snow off of the interstate.
And please bring your children in the car.
Cowboy up.
Bring your horse as a backup to pull the plow.
Wow, Kentucky rain must have been so harsh.
So you want your children running around in minus 20 degree cold weather that will freeze their face to frostbite in the first minute.
Roll them dice for junior.
Parental compassion at its best.
8 degrees here on The Jersey Shore(11 pm. EST) wind is northwest at 10 mph. Going to be biter cold here most of the week. Fairly common for NJ. Lot of the time we get a lot of snow. I don’t see the sense in making young kids go out in weather like this.
How about minus 20? Heading for minus 32 here.
WC is minus 47.
I received a robo call from the trash disposal company regarding tomorrow’s pickup. It will not occur due to the safety of their drivers.
Me too.
I’m ok with that. Don’t quite have all of my recycling pulled together.
;-)
I guess Gov. Know-it-all prefers that people find kid-cicles in their yard, frozen after waiting for a school bus. Jerk!
Agreed
When it gets below minus 10 or so
It’s downright dangerous
For those of us in the great white north, minus 10 is a walk in the park. As long as the wind doesn’t blow.
Currently minus 22, heading for minus 31 with strong NW winds.
The Governor of Kentucky has no clue about how this affects the public safety.
Some here have defended him, saying he was just talking about wimpy folks in Kentucky.
“AMERICA” is an odd way to spell Kentucky.
They cancelled all schools in my area, including the one I went to, which rarely did it when I was growing up, while nearby ones would.
I think part of the problem today is people lack common sense and I worry about stupid parents not paying attention to kids’ welfare, and them freezing to death outside.
I used to work in a plant with no heat, so it was bad in Winter (and Summer). Winters were also worse then (1980s) from what I remember. Had cars with little to no heat too. I made it, and I am not very tough at all. I do worry about the kids and the old people in this weather though. I know what to do, but many people nowadays seem clueless.
Never had a "Too Cold Day", only a rare snow day; our people are being trained to be softer!!
Currently -24 here in Burnsville, worked today, working tomorrow
My block warmer is plugged in (she's parked outside); just ran it for 15 so she'll start in the morning🙏🏻
PS: I Love My Children
Bevin is correct. I live in Kentucky and our school system was closed yesterday and today. There have been NO sub-zero temperatures at all. Today the temps are going to be in the 20’s. No wind chill. No snow or ice on the streets.
On another note...why all the hostility towards the governor for simply stating his opinion, and a pretty harmless one at that? Are we learning from our Democrat friends and neighbors how to turn a simple difference of opinion into a hate-filled attack? Bevin is a good governor and his comments about people getting soft are true to who he is. He’s tough-minded and gets things done. He’s bold and is willing to tackle tough problems, even when it would be politically expedient not to do so. I would guess that Bevin has very little use or respect for “softness,” and I, for one, think our state is better off because of it.
The people in KY are about to understand how cold you all have it - they may suffer from a lack of suds:
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!!!!
People will continue to soften. We don’t have to spend time out in the weather so we are more vulnerable to really cold weather. Many of us would wither under the physical conditions that even our immediate ancestors endured. Bevin is right in complaining however, he again chooses the wrong example to highlight.
I can see both sides of this argument. When we were kids most of our schools had been constructed in the late 40’s, and when cold snaps like this one hit, we would sometimes be off for burst water pipes or furnace problems. But school was scheduled.
The biggest problem yesterday in Pennsylvania was black ice. Temperatures so low that anything that ‘looked’ wet on the road was in fact black ice. Probably not a good idea to be running school buses on that especially with all the knuckleheads on the road.
-28 in Arden Hills when I parked my vehicle at work. With the wind I’m sure it’s worse than that.
It’s cold, doesn’t feel good, but I do remember plenty of similar days in my youth where school was never cancelled. From Kindergarten through graduation I can count on one hand the number of snow days or school cancellations due to weather.
The differential between the last three day’s worth of cold and other years isn’t that big (maybe 10 degrees below 0 wind chill difference at best), just a few years ago we had a pretty brutal arctic vortex that caused 4 days of school cancellations and it was much like this one was (I remember 50 and 60 below wind chill then.
Was Bevin referring to MN or KY? The closings in the mid-south were a bit silly, IMO. (I’m here - yeah, it was quite cold (for us), but no records here, anyway, other than maybe record wind chill for the day.) MN, Chicago, etc., is another story, of course.
The worst black ice I’ve ever seen was in far Southern IL (south of most of KY.) But you only have to get down to 15-20 deg. to get that on treated roads, and of course 32 deg. F if not treated or the treatment has mostly run off.
Bevin IS, I am confident, versed on ice. Just about this time, in 2009, was really something in this region, esp. in KY. (Tremendous ice storm over parts of several states, followed by very, but not record, cold. Everything stayed frozen up for several days. It KILLED 35 people in KY alone.)
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