Posted on 12/27/2017 8:01:49 AM PST by PBRCat
For many parts of the nation, a prolonged period of punishing cold is just getting started.
The cold snap that descended on much of the nation from the Rockies eastward on Christmas Eve is predicted to become further entrenched and even more biting in the coming days. The worst of the cold may grip the central United States from Saturday through New Year’s Day, when temperatures may fall more than 30 degrees below normal. Then it may spill eastward.
As the Arctic air poured over the Great Lakes, it produced astronomical snowfall amounts. An incredible 53 inches of snow piled up in 30 hours in Erie, Pa., Pennsylvania’s biggest two-day snowfall on record.
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I was not aware that most of the time the weather could grant absolution for my sins.
tough on the homeless, too. A woman vet I know with mental issues was released to the streets in Jersey instead of a VA mental hospital last Feb. Not Bbbbrrrrr but gggrrrrrr. Stupid judge.
That's just mean.
Global warming.
57 degrees here in sunny California. On the way up to a balmy high of 61. Don’t know why I stay here.
...???...Drats!...tomorrow starting out in the single digits (5-6)....with some wind...nothing above 30 for the next week...
Cold? Snow? Nope...not here...I been swimming and fishing.
Minus zero is possible in computers.
Assembler on the univac is
LN,U A0,0
Result in a 36-bit word is 777777777777
Negative zero.
Wow - glad I don’t have my newspaper route from sixty years ago in this kind of weather - looking forward to deliveries over three miles each day in 25 degrees for two weeks would have been a major downer - thank goodness we didn’t have this global warming stuff way back then.....
I am about 30 miles west of Minot out in the boonies.
Lol, yep, I am 35 miles from Kenmare!!!
My family lived in Donnybrook during my year in 7th grade. Was there when Kennedy was assassinated.
“It is December. It is New England. What is the deal here?”
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I agree——and still 11 degrees where I am.
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It was 2 below this morning, but...we are such wimps! I heard it was 36 below zero in Minnesota!
I hear about this, and I think of our Marines, a single division surrounded by 10 divisions of Chinese troops at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea in 1950, with temperatures at 35 below zero, and a wind chill that took it down to around 70 below zero...and I thought...how did they do that? How did they defeat them, outnumbered 10-1, in weather like that? How?
And then you find out that some of those exact same Marines, only five years or so before, had been fighting under conditions on Peleliu in the Pacific, with no water, in temperatures that got as high as 115 degrees, and you think...man, talk about being dealt really bad hands.
Two comments in response:
1. You're downright MEAN!
2. Pictures of Mrs. Deplorable in her bikini by the pool or it didn't happen.
:-)
IIRC the troops in Korea were ill equipped for the cold weather———as I recall there was much press coverage about this.I specifically remember something about the boots.
Long time ago so I could be mistaken.
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I think you are right, they had an issue with some boots that were supposed to help them but ended up causing frostbite because they didn’t breathe, but I might be getting that mixed up with the Battle of The Bulge...
Sorry...you got to picture Mrs Deplorable in a bikini...we don’t post pictures online.
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