Not to make you all feel old, but I was born in February of 85 and was told it was very cold that winter.
I remember it snowing in Los Angeles around 1949 ... I was driving through Sepulveda pass in a blizzard.
FRiends, my hamster running my computer, is going on strike if I do not raise the temperature in the house above 55 degrees Fahrenheit. That hamster is threatening to join a union. Looks like I am going to have to go hamster trappin' as well, and throw the one I have out in the snow.
BAA
Bitter Arctic Air
BBBRRRrrrr..
I hate global warming. Hate it!
In case you haven’t been monitoring our weather outlook, we’re under a winter storm warning from 10 PM Tuesday to 4 PM Wednesday...snow accumulations from 6-10 inches.
This will be followed on Thursday by warm temperatures and a hydrologic warning. All the snowpack below 4000’ is expected to melt by Friday, leading to runoff from melting snow and rainfall causing significant rises in rivers and streams.
This warmup may also result in the breakup of ice cover on streams and tributaries, raising the potential for ice jams and localized flooding. Those with interests near area rivers and streams are warned to “remain vigilant for rising water and be aware of futue outlooks or warnings from the National Weather Service.”
Cool, huh? Not.
This Global Warming is killing me. Al Gore, lmao at you! Wonder when he’ll be indicted for fraud?
1985 Oh I remember that... but probably not as much as the local police who were sent out looking for myself and a football team-mate, when we thought it would be fun to go snow camping along the abandoned railroad tracks near the college.
The wind chill was 100 below in Eastern Nebraska that night. Not unlike the winter conditions above the treeline in Colorado. Where I’d been, and survived just fine, before.
Behind a tree-belt windbreak, with double sleeping bags and a Northface tent designed for the Himalayas - we were adequately warm. But boiling hot coco was cold in the time it took to take it off the stove, stir it in the metal cup, and drink it.
We could hear a siren on and off through the night - and had no idea they were looking for us until the next morning when we wandered into the campus cafeteria and were scolded for “Endangering” ourselves.
It’s a fun story to tell - and one my wife, who I met two years earlier at the same school, is still happy to shake her head and confirm: “Oh yes, he actually did that - he was just as craz...err.. Adventurous, back then”. ;-}
Well, dadgum!
I’ve been harvesting a handful of cherry tomatoes every other day for the last month here in Texas, but it looks like it will come to an end with this upcoming cold blast. My spring 2010 cherry tomato plant is still producing as is my fall cherry tomato plant.
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January ‘85... UCSB... probably biking to Lucky’s in shorts to buy more Meister Brau...
“The days grow longer..the cold grows stronger.” Got that from one of the Little House series..Farmer Boy I think. Still holds true today. Supposed to be -10 for the next couple of nights here in southeastern Wy.
Our rapidly warming world...
It was a fun winter.
‘85 was the last time the Bears won the Super Bowl. Maybe it is time for another. The victory parade was in near Zero weather. Didn’t miss a game that year and won’t this one either.
No kidding.
So the Earth starts cooling and the media change the name of global warming to climate change. The democrat sheep still believe the media and their fake global warming hoax, bp oil “disaster”, swine flu, blaming the shootings on Palin, and Republicans etc.
winter of ‘14 is colder.