Posted on 01/04/2014 7:33:23 PM PST by Windflier
Experts have warned that Friday's freezing temperatures were simply a warm-up and that this weekend will bring a big chill for 140 million people - almost half the nation - that could prove fatal for the unprepared - and will continue through the winter.
With the Northeast still reeling from the huge storm that dumped as much as two-feet of snow across the region and was responsible for the deaths of 16 people, a new weather system is threatening to bring record low temperatures to the Midwest as a polar vortex barrels over the United States.
'It's the mother lode of cold air,' said Weather Channel coordinating meteorologist Tom Moore. 'On the heels of what will be the coldest air of the season, will be dangerous, life-threatening winds.'
Because of the winds, 'It may feel as cold as negative 50 to negative 60 on Sunday night over sections of the north-central states,' the National Weather Service said to NBC News. 'In those conditions, frost bite sets in on exposed skin within five minutes.'
Moore said that as the freakishly cold weather hits the region, authorities need to act fast to avoid a human catastrophe because of the chill.
'Anybody living out on the streets needs to be rounded up and put into a shelter,' said Moore to MSNBC News.
'The repercussions ... could be deadly, and I'm afraid we're going to see cases like that.'
The temperature predictions are startling: 25 below zero in Fargo, North Dakota, minus 31 in International Falls, Minnesota, and 15 below in Indianapolis and Chicago.
The so-called 'polar vortex' will send cold air piled up at the North Pole down to the U.S., funneling it as far south as the Gulf Coast.
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We have to work outside in colder weather than your Texas norms, I have worked in minus temperatures more than a few times, though I now have a rule that if it's not getting to twenty degrees as a high that day, I'm not going to work outside.
You figure out how to work with thin gloves and good clothes or you get frostbite, it's that simple. I never cared for it, but figured out how to handle it, what I don't understand is how you work in the south in the summer when it's close to one hundred degrees for months. I HATE working in that kind of weather.
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My car came to me used and very clean. It also has California emissions. Something tells me the block heater was not on the list of options the first owner cared to buy. It does not even have rear defrost.
Yup. Battery prices shot up. They use lead. We no longer have a smelter in the US of a.
I buy mine from auto wreckers. The one in my car is 4 months old. I paid 25 bucks for it.
True...
For you, that’s frigid. My sympathies.
Right now we’re at -18 air temperature, -31 wind chill, with a predicted “high” of -16 this afternoon. Colder tomorrow, predicted “high” of -17.
Never, ever, believe what you read in Wikipedia.
It's a good place to start researching anything, but there is usually far more and different to the story about what's really going on than is found there.
You can buy a new Unimog from Freightliner. Mercedes makes one model of Unimog for the US market and imports them through Freightliner.
That model starts at $120,000.
The other way to import a vehicle is to have it over 25 years old.
Antique vehicles are exempt from the crazy requirements our fascist government places on vehicles.
If a vehicle is less than 25 years old, you can pay big bucks and have it brought to US standards.
If you try any funny stuff, like swapping on a data plate for and earlier year, US Customs will usually catch you.
They will have it crushed, as the formerly proud owner of a Defender recently discovered.
Should you sneak one in, and insure, register and drive it, don't get in a really bad accident.
During the investigation it will probably be discovered you have a non-compliant vehicle, and your insurance will be void.
My Unimog is a 1966 German Army 404 "Funkwagen" (radio van).
If you click on moosetrophy.com, (one of my web sites), you will find many pics and info about it.
This is a good backup if you're a democrat or rino.
That's because it can kill you as the heater uses up the oxygen and asphyxiates you.
You can get away with this by leaving a window open AND having a good Co2 sensor/alarm.
I have several propane heaters, but would NEVER use one in the house.
Am leaving Tuesday for a one week trip to Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. My cousins there told me it has been cold! So day before yesterday I sent them a pic of grandson in shorts and a tshirt titled.....January in California.
I hope your family has a sense of humor. I don’t know that I’d want to rub the balmy California weather in their faces while they’re enduring such awful cold.
Guess you’ll find out when you get out there, huh? :-)
I go there a couple of times a year, Always right after Christmas/New Year. 2 years ago when I got off the plane it was -7. I pack a box full of sweaters, etc and USPS priority mail it before I leave now. lol
Or ice skates across some lakes!
Makes no sense to me having a freezer running in the winter when there is an unending supply of cold air only feet away. There has got to be a way to pipe the cold directly into the refrig in winter....
We've tried to find thin gloves that will keep our hands warm while still allowing us the sense of touch we need to do the job, but I've never found anything that works. If I pounded nails for a living I don't think I'd have any problem finding adequate cold weather gear.
As to the Texas heat, yeah, it can really separate the men from the boys. I'm originally from Southern California where the summertime highs can easily reach 100 to 115 degrees, so I know what heat is about. But for some reason, the Texas heat is 'different'. I don't think I've seen it go over 108 here, but it can feel more like 120.
To deal with it, I take sea salt tablets, drink tons of water, and wear a big western hat. Long sleeves also help, but that seems counter-intuitive to a SoCal boy :-)
During the coldest part of winter my wife will often just shelve refrigerated items in the garage to keep them cold. There's weeks when it's colder out there, than in our fridge.
That's interesting. Why not visit the folks in springtime when it's heavenly out here?
You heat the inside of you house which is a large box. Then you refrigerate a small box inside the larger one for food storage. There is something wrong with that.
-— During the coldest part of winter my wife will often just shelve refrigerated items in the garage to keep them cold -—
You can also put an old refrigerator out there. It won’t have to work very hard, but it will keep a more stable temp.
I go then too. Usually 2 trips a year. Not much family left and most of them live there. Have 2 aunts left out of 10 kids. One is 92 and the other is 84. I mostly go to visit them.
My understanding is that cold temps can make the inside temp of a refrigerator inconsistent, that the thermostat can be confused enough to not maintain as tight of a set temperature, and that the freezer may be affected in a more dramatic way, depending on the model.
Also, in deep cold, things may freeze that shouldn’t be freezing, since the refrigerator will simply shut off at around 36 degrees and be nothing but a cabinet.
In very cold winters an ice chest is still used for beer, but it is used with a hot water bottle inside of it, instead of ice.
Sell all of your weather shares NOW before you go bankrupt!!!
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