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Frigid weather hits Midwest, -52 wind chill in ND
AP/YahooNews ^ | 1/7/10 | MICHAEL CRUMB

Posted on 01/07/2010 9:37:28 AM PST by Kartographer

DES MOINES, Iowa – Snow was piled so high in Iowa that drivers couldn't see across intersections and a North Dakota snowblower repair shop was overwhelmed with business as heavy snow and wind chills as low as 52 below zero blasted much of the Midwest on Thursday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Iowa; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: globalcooling
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To: kidd

Y’all better pray for the San Joaquin Valley. A great deal of food comes from here.


21 posted on 01/07/2010 10:10:23 AM PST by bannie (Somebody has to go to seed...it might as well be me!)
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To: PLD

I would amend that to say take Al Gore to Minot or maybe Omaha, stip him to his skivvies, hose him down and release him on a county road outside of town with the admonition that global warming will obviously save him.


22 posted on 01/07/2010 10:15:17 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: SoDak; Rushmore Rocks
>>>> "Had a minus 31 here in SD the other morning, looking for -25 tonight, and that's not a wind chill, just an ambient temp. Wind chills are supposed to drive into the -70's tonight." <<<<

RushmoreRocks, is it this cold in your area of SD, too? Seventy below zero windchill, tonight?

What do homeless people do??

23 posted on 01/07/2010 10:15:47 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Kartographer

Yep I bet all of those Hawkeye fans in Miami are in no hurry to get back home.


24 posted on 01/07/2010 10:17:04 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Kartographer

We just got another 8 inches last night on top of what we already had. We’ve been enduring temps anywhere from 10 degrees to -7, along with windchills and snowdrifts.

God I miss summer.


25 posted on 01/07/2010 10:27:10 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Bush at his worst was still better than Obama at his best.)
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To: kidd

PA is run by thieves. the roads suck and Pittsburgh itself is going broke. And PA is chocked full of blue hairs who only think about themselves.


26 posted on 01/07/2010 10:29:33 AM PST by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: hennie pennie

Brown fat; I wondered what those wattles were around Steve Croft’s neck...


27 posted on 01/07/2010 10:32:00 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: hennie pennie

Our forecast is for -21 tonight. The winds, thankfully, have calmed some. Yesterday was horrid. It’s -8 right now at my house.

That’s one of the reasons we have so few homeless people. Ya gotta be pretty rugged to live here. There is a shelter in town for them.

It’s winter, we expect it every year, and we are prepared for it. This one, however, has been a bit more extreme than most.


28 posted on 01/07/2010 10:35:08 AM PST by Rushmore Rocks (Dollar a Day Member..............Free Republic is not Free!)
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To: Kartographer
Marge From North Dakota
29 posted on 01/07/2010 10:43:53 AM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: hennie pennie

If there’s any level of intelligence left in them, they begin migrating south in October. I don’t see many homeless people walking around in December.


30 posted on 01/07/2010 10:52:37 AM PST by SoDak (bitter clinger)
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To: Kartographer

The wind chill is NOT the actual temperature. The wind chill could be -50, but if it’s 33 degrees, water will not freeze. The wind chill factor is merely an estimate of how the air will feel against bare flesh taking into account the actual air temperature and wind speed.


31 posted on 01/07/2010 10:59:41 AM PST by meyer (Government health care = national strike.)
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To: SoDak

Interesting, thanks.


32 posted on 01/07/2010 10:59:53 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Beaten Valve

I’m happy to sit here looking out the window at the snow falling across the lawn with sub zero temps on the way knowing that I don’t have to deal with LA’s gang problems, draconian environmental laws, draconian gun laws, and a crime rate that makes people weld bars on their doors and windows.


33 posted on 01/07/2010 11:07:19 AM PST by MediaMole
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To: hennie pennie

Drudge had report some street people commit minor crimes so they can sit the cold months out in jail. I heard this years ago.

There are also criminals who commit a crime which will get them a 6 month sentence..just before the snow flies...stay the winters in jail, out in Spring and do the same thing the next fall.


34 posted on 01/07/2010 11:13:43 AM PST by caww
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To: MestaMachine

How long were you without power today? I find it terrifying to lose power when it’s so cold outside — I immediately think of that horrific Ice Storm in Montreal almost a decade ago, where there was no gas or electricity for forty days. (eeeeeeK!)


35 posted on 01/07/2010 4:16:45 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: hennie pennie

A few hours. They work pretty fast up here. Had heat and candles and kerosene lanterns if needed. I am pretty self sufficient here. But a lot of people aren’t.


36 posted on 01/07/2010 4:27:59 PM PST by MestaMachine (Your CORE is the path you walk. RINOs don't walk paths, they build roads to nowhere..)
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To: hennie pennie
I read that they were going to start conducting experiments on human 'brown fat'
I'm gonna make a fortune!
37 posted on 01/07/2010 5:19:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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