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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Y’all better pray for the San Joaquin Valley. A great deal of food comes from here.
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.
RushmoreRocks, is it this cold in your area of SD, too? Seventy below zero windchill, tonight?
What do homeless people do??
Yep I bet all of those Hawkeye fans in Miami are in no hurry to get back home.
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.
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.
Brown fat; I wondered what those wattles were around Steve Croft’s neck...
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.
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.
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.
Interesting, thanks.
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.
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.
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!)
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.
I read that they were going to start conducting experiments on human 'brown fat'I'm gonna make a fortune!
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