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Rockies and Midwest crippled by cold
Associated Press ^ | December 7, 2005 | cnn

Posted on 12/07/2005 8:33:42 PM PST by george76

Bitterly cold air spread across the Rockies and Midwest on Wednesday, closing schools, crippling cars and sending volunteers into the streets looking for homeless people to rescue.

In West Yellowstone, Montana, a hamlet on the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park and a frequent icebox, the mercury plummeted to 45 below zero, shattering the old record for December 7 of 39 below set in 1927.

Schools in the Colorado Springs area were closed and many others statewide opened late.

The cold extended south to the Texas Panhandle, where Lubbock had a record low of 6 degrees.

At Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, officials said freezing rain was expected to force the cancellation of hundreds of flights.

"It's just pretty cold," said Charles Bowers, a rancher and cotton farmer near Pampa, a town 145 miles south of Lubbock where it was 10 degrees at noon.

Temperatures read like ice hockey scores in northeastern New Mexico -- zero at Las Vegas and 1 at Raton. "I'm sitting here in my office and it's freezing and we've got the heat on full blast,"...

Elsewhere Wednesday, the weather service said record lows for the date included 28 below zero at Drummond, Montana, 25 below at Laramie, Wyoming, 17 below at Alliance, Nebraska; 19 below at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and 3 below at Lincoln, Illinois.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Idaho; US: Illinois; US: Kansas; US: Montana; US: Nebraska; US: New Mexico; US: North Dakota; US: Oklahoma; US: South Dakota; US: Texas; US: Utah; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: bush; doooooomed; globalcooling; iceage; miniiceage; weather; winter
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1 posted on 12/07/2005 8:33:43 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

Bush's fault for not signing Kyoto. Or something. :)


2 posted on 12/07/2005 8:34:53 PM PST by patricktschetter
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To: george76

6 degrees here in eastern KS with about 8 inches on our deck table.


3 posted on 12/07/2005 8:35:28 PM PST by Mercat (God loves us where He finds us.)
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To: george76

MONTREAL — Thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities worldwide Saturday to demand urgent action on global warming ...

Five environmental groups, including Greenpeace and the Climate Crisis Coalition...

in Montreal urging President Bush and Congress to help slow global warming.

"We're worried about climate change, about ways of life in the Canadian Arctic disappearing," said Sarah Binder of Montreal's Urban Ecology Center.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177735,00.html


4 posted on 12/07/2005 8:35:45 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: patricktschetter

Yeah ... definitely global warming.


5 posted on 12/07/2005 8:36:09 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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To: george76

"Rockies and Midwest crippled by cold"

Define hyperbole.


6 posted on 12/07/2005 8:36:17 PM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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7 posted on 12/07/2005 8:36:44 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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8 posted on 12/07/2005 8:37:57 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
"sending volunteers into the streets looking for homeless people to rescue"

If the volunteers just stayed home, and warm there would be less bums on the street come spring.
Just a thought.
9 posted on 12/07/2005 8:38:11 PM PST by chaos_5
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To: george76

It should be making headlines when it's 80 degrees out for days on end in the middle of December, in places like West Yellowstone, Montana.


10 posted on 12/07/2005 8:39:22 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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There is one bright spot to all this. The crime rate goes down with the temperature.


11 posted on 12/07/2005 8:40:24 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: george76

THIS is the time of year that Florida living is very, very attractive...;)


12 posted on 12/07/2005 8:41:22 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: george76
Been keeping busy around here with this weather.
I don't mind it cold but my shifts on my two jobs always are when we get this sort of stuff:

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051207/NEWS01/512070307/1002


Also- this weather comes every year, why are folks still talking about it???
13 posted on 12/07/2005 8:42:51 PM PST by FreedomHasACost (I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.)
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Ho-hum for east central Minnesota.

7 degree temp for a high here yesterday.

Life went on. Work went on. School went on.

It's winter for goodness sakes!


14 posted on 12/07/2005 8:42:59 PM PST by mplsconservative
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To: BigSkyFreeper

12 below right now at my house in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Nothing new. It is winter.


15 posted on 12/07/2005 8:43:04 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks
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To: BigSkyFreeper

It even got to So. Cal., I forced myself to wear long pants for the last 2 days, it only got up to 67.


16 posted on 12/07/2005 8:43:10 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Mercat; george76
It was -1 when I got home from work today. I thought long and hard (approx. 29 seconds)about the "wood burning restriction" in Denver before I lit the wood burning stove tonight. Currently it's about 69 degrees in the house and we're all feeling warm & toasty!

I'd wager any lib would do the same thing! ;-)

17 posted on 12/07/2005 8:43:21 PM PST by CO Gal (Liberals, like puppies, are cute to look at, but shouldn't vote...)
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It's frickin' cold here! Not fit for man nor beast. The lousy neighbor of my dad's keeps her poor dog out in weather like this. My brother's neighbor does the same thing. I'd like to chain them to a flim flam dog house and keep them out for a few nights.


18 posted on 12/07/2005 8:44:26 PM PST by beaversmom
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I spent Christmas 1998 with my brother in Phoenix, Arizona. Wore a polo shirt and khaki shorts, and the temperature was 68 degrees and sunny on Christmas day.


19 posted on 12/07/2005 8:45:21 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: Mercat

I'm kind of surprised how these low temps are distributed. It was a nice 15 degree day here in North Dakota. Monday morning was a bit colder at -11 but it wasn't a big deal, I just plugged in my pickup's block heater on Sunday night.


20 posted on 12/07/2005 8:46:03 PM PST by patricktschetter
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