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Snow, rain and ice blankets much of US (Paging Al Gore&Gubinor aRnie, Global Warming Alert!)
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 12/22/08 | AFP

Posted on 12/22/2008 10:04:11 AM PST by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A massive winter storm blanketed the US West Coast with snow, sleet and ice early Monday while blizzards and snow squalls struck the Northeast and Midwest, killing at least four people and making travel dangerous.

The storm snarled holiday air traffic across the country, with delays at major airports in San Francisco; Houston, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; New Jersey and New York, officials said.

The fierce weather was blamed for the death of two people in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate Highway 80 east of Des Moines, Iowa.

Another weather-related fatality was reported in northwest Iowa when a farm tractor being used for snow removal slipped off the driveway and overturned, killing the driver, the Des Moines Register newspaper reported.

Drivers blinded by blizzard conditions created a 30-vehicle pile-up on Interstate 94 in western Michigan Sunday. Dozens of the vehicles were also involved in a series of other wrecks nearby, including one that killed a 31-year-old Illinois man, CNN television reported.

Travel was also treacherous in the northwestern states of Oregon and Washington, with heavy rain, sleet and snow expected until 10:00 am (1800 GMT) Monday, the National Weather Service said in its winter storm warning for the region.

"This is probably one of the worst storms since 1990," weather service meteorologist Dana Felton told AFP by phone from Seattle, adding that the last big storm on this scale was on Christmas day 1996.

"This is definitely a once-in-a-decade type of storm."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blankets; eggnog; globalcooling; globalwarming; jinglebells; snow; whitechristmas; winter
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To: pburgh01

I love Eastern US Weather. Great site. I won’t have much use of it for either severe weather or snow like in the past when I lived in Kansas. But, hopefully I will get out West Texas in a year or two.


41 posted on 12/22/2008 11:44:38 AM PST by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: NormsRevenge

I was out and about this morning and everyone was talking about brutal this winter has been - even for Detroit.


42 posted on 12/22/2008 11:49:47 AM PST by LiberConservative ("I can see upstate from my house!")
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To: austinaero

Texas is great, but I do miss my snow and severe weather up north. Of course, I am in Midland, TX, about the worst part of the state. The people are nice, but the landscape makes Kansas look beautiful (to me it already was of course), but the Midland/Odessa area is so dry with no weather whatsoever to speak of....so utterly boring.

Dallas gets more rain though. I think that might be a good place to be to at least get a little snow in the winter while still being pretty warm mostly. :)

Austin is beautiful, btw. Love it.


43 posted on 12/22/2008 11:51:25 AM PST by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: Married with Children

We had 40 mph winds yesterday on top of that cold wave. Bitter as heck outside right now.

Whats going to screw things up royally here is hitting 60 on Wednesday...sinus’s exploding is always a bad thing....


44 posted on 12/22/2008 11:52:54 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: gc4nra
Imagine where we would be if these were quotes that Algore said and believed along with his followers who ignore true facts and science:

"The earth is flat"
"If you sail out past the horizon, you will fall off the edge of the earth."
"The sky is falling run folks run. The sky is falling, and the sun."
"The moon is made of blue cheese."

To the global warming dingbats, all would have seemed sane and they would have defended it as long as Algore told them it was true, all even in the face of proof it was wrong. These people thrive on making stupid hysteria popular and frightening others.

45 posted on 12/22/2008 11:59:16 AM PST by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: rwfromkansas
Thanks. The anecdotal stories of global cooling are great and much appreciated. In particular, those that report that some Global Warming confab has been canceled due to lack of global warming.
46 posted on 12/22/2008 12:01:53 PM PST by steelyourfaith
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To: maryz
Does anyone know or remember how and when precisely this global warming nonsense began? Who was the first nut?

The global cooling alarmism of the 70's led to the creation and massive funding of climate science. When the global cooling thing didn't pan out, these scientists were left with two options: 1-vouluntarily put themselves out of work by saying "nothing to worry about folks" or 2-keep themselves employed and expand their field of science by creating a new global warming hysteria.

No government financed scientist has ever voluntarily put himself out of work by admitting they are unneeded. They all create panic and postion themselves as saviors.

47 posted on 12/22/2008 12:04:27 PM PST by Perchant
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To: NormsRevenge

B-b—b-b-b-b—b-bump


48 posted on 12/22/2008 12:08:35 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (All hail the Obamasiah! Kneel before Obamohammad!)
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To: maryz
Does anyone know or remember how and when precisely this global warming nonsense began

In grammar school in 1955 we were told that CO2 was a greenhouse gas and that eventually earth would be like Venus with the oceans dried up. We were also informed there was 20 years of oil left and since we were planning to have cars in a couple more years we were sent into immediate, permanent, and Great Depression.

49 posted on 12/22/2008 12:09:56 PM PST by RightWhale (We were so young two years ago and the DJIA was 12,000)
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To: NormsRevenge

It is +6 degrees F. with snow out of Helena, Montana. This is the first time it has been above zero for a week. We are having a heatwave.


50 posted on 12/22/2008 12:10:15 PM PST by jesseam (Been there and done that!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Al deserves another Nobel Prize, for ending global warming.

The Earth would probably be one degree too warm by now, if it weren’t for Gore’s heroic speechgiving.


51 posted on 12/22/2008 12:11:57 PM PST by syriacus (OBAMA'S CHOICE ----> is to leave a newborn's fate in the hands of 2 people who wanted to kill her.)
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To: GRRRRR

so, maybe volcanos are to blame .. is that your drift?

Merry Christmas !!


52 posted on 12/22/2008 12:12:32 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: jesseam

Say Hi to my cousins there. in Helena and Great Falls.

I love Montana.


53 posted on 12/22/2008 12:14:11 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: Perchant

Don’t forget about the 4,000 acres of “rain forest” burned up every day by farmers in the Amazon, the massive failure of the “acid” rain scare, and lest we forget, the growing hole in the ozone layer. Aren’t we all supposed to be dead by now? Not that I’m complaining, mind you...


54 posted on 12/22/2008 12:18:18 PM PST by PowderMonkey (Will Work for Ammo)
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To: LiberConservative
I was out and about this morning and everyone was talking about brutal this winter has been - even for Detroit.

its not that bad. a bit colder than usual, a bit more snow, but nothing horribly unusual.
55 posted on 12/22/2008 12:32:41 PM PST by absolootezer0 (happy festi-christma-chauna-kwanza-don-stice-ule.. eh screw pc. MERRY CHRISTMAS!)
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To: NormsRevenge

“A row of handsome cabs make their way through Central Park”

They may be handsome cabs, but they aren’t Hansom cabs — which have the driver above and behind the cab.

We have “journalist” these days who don’t even bother to find out the meanings, or even the spellings, of the words they use.


56 posted on 12/22/2008 12:46:30 PM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Perchant
the creation and massive funding of climate science.

Let me guess -- massive funding by the U.S. gov't? Would this have been sponsored by Democrats, by any chance?

57 posted on 12/22/2008 12:53:17 PM PST by maryz
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To: GRRRRR
This is the MOST snow we’ve had in like 20 years or more.

Not here in Rochelle, 80 miles West of Chicago. December 1, 2006 we had 15" of snow that day (first seasonal snowfall). December 1, 2007 we had somewhat less than that (again, first seasonal...), and on November 30, 2008 we had our first snowfall again; 6" or so.

Where you may be at the amounts may well have differed.

58 posted on 12/22/2008 12:59:26 PM PST by bcsco (Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
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To: Perchant

That’s a pretty interesting scenario. Do you have documentation on the funding of climate that came about after the 70’s? I’d sure like to be armed with such data...


59 posted on 12/22/2008 1:02:50 PM PST by bcsco (Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
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To: bcsco
Do you have documentation on the funding of climate that came about after the 70’s?

Sure don't. But you can get a good idea about how the climate science was born by using google news archive with dates 1970-1980 and keywords like "cooling", "climate", "study" etc. You'll get to read fun little excerpts like this one:

Experts Fear Great Peril If SST Fumes Cool Earth E-MAIL Save By WALTER SULLIVAN

December 21, 1975, Sunday

Page 32, 1057 words

A federally sponsored inquiry into the effects of possible climate changes caused by heavy supersonic traffic in the stratosphere has concluded that even a slight cooling could cost the world from $200 billion to 500 times that much in damage done to agriculture, public health and other effects.

60 posted on 12/22/2008 2:11:16 PM PST by Perchant
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