Posted on 01/07/2014 5:58:17 PM PST by Hojczyk
mockery by nearly every Ohioan over the age of forty began on Facebook:
Well I see all the public schools in my area have already WIMPED OUT and cancelled school for the next two days because of . . . snow and ice and cold temperatures. Heavens. I guess the poor little dumplings can’t take it. Is everyone going to cancel work too because it’s so cold?
I can’t believe they cancelled already when the temps are still ok and not one flake has fallen. Hello Wussy USA!!!
My wife rode the bus from the time she and her sisters were in elementary school. If there were one or two foot snow drifts. . .if they could get the buses out of the barns. . .they went to school. Parents can walk or drive their kids. We are turning our kids into wimps nowadays.
I delivered newspapers when in snowstorms many times. I think the real problem is that parents want their kids to be protected every minute from the time they leave home. They probably have a greater chance of getting shot in school than getting frostbite but that is another issue.
I’m only 20. But even I know things have happened a lot worse than what we have now. It’s sad to see that we’ve come so far just to be so annoyingly weak.
NOAA reported:
blizzard caused the most complete disruption of transportation ever known to Ohio. Maj. Gen. James C. Clem of the Ohio National Guard reported the immobilization of Ohio was comparable to the results of a statewide nuclear attack. Prolonged blizzard conditions created enormous snowdrifts that stopped highway and rail transportation and isolated thousands of person. Air travel was stopped for two to three days by low visibility and deep snowdrifts on runways.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
I survived (barely!) the Ice Storm of ‘76 up here in Wisconsin. Ice coated everything; inches and inches of it. Downed power lines and a lot of the trees in our yard were ruined.
We were stuck in our house for a week with no electricity. We had to pee in a bucket! Mom cleaned out the freezers and Dad fired up the grill and we ate like kings and pretty much fed the neighborhood.
The worst part? I was a 16 year old girl at the time - WITH NO PHONE SERVICE! OMG! The Humanity! LOL!
So the media states that Polar vortex causes global cooling AND global warming. Which is it? Or is it both?
Time Mag Flashback: 1974 Issue Warns of Man-Made ‘Global Cooling’
By Greg Sheffield | July 24, 2006 | 09:48
“Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex”...
http://newsbusters.org/node/6546
I agree with your sleeping bag requirement.
Why a plumber’s candle? They last a certain amount of hours, between 6 and 8.
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-10433.html
More blizzards in history.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/?n=biggestsnowstorms-us
(Excluding Western U.S. storms along the Rocky Mountains and Intermountain West, and purely lake-effect snow events.)
And I remember some doozys between these dates!
Here are a few more not mentioned.
Boston, The GREAT SNOW OF 1717. 108 inches. (Glo-bull Warming I tell you! Global Warming!)
Buffalo, NY 1977. 199 inches.
http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/the-biggest/the-top-10-biggest-snowstorms-ever-recorded/
The common camping lantern by UCO uses a 9 hour candle that is in all the camping stores everywhere, I have switched to their version that uses the cheaper ‘tea candle’, since I am a flashlight guy with hi-tech flashlights that run for 100 hours on single batteries, etc, and carry plenty of sleeping and wearing gear, I only carry the candles for melting snow into water, or thawing my food.
http://www.rei.com/product/838881/uco-original-candle-lantern-value-pack
Thats pretty bad in minn. Sorry to hear that 4 degrees is that big of a deal. The weather channel talking about danger, really hyperbole. Some Virginia schools opening late . Didnt when i was a kid. I guess they wanted a day off, because it hasnt snowed so far except nothernn va and mountains
The one good thing about living in South Florida in 1978.
Minnesota had it’s good points. Driving was not one of them.
I understand not putting kids in actual danger but it just seems kids are so over protected these days. They can't handle life.
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