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Old 12-11-2014, 06:14 PM   #1
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Snow light, snow bright,
The first snow I saw last night
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wished all night.
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Old 01-03-2015, 08:00 PM   #2
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Enough of this crap already. 2 or 3" today, storm warnings most of day.
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?r...01111&loop=yes
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Old 01-03-2015, 08:54 PM   #3
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I agree buster, I bought a new boiler a month ago, but had to stash it in a friends garage because the lawn around to the cellar door is gumbo.
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Old 01-05-2015, 10:10 PM   #4
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Thursday am. 17º Hi of 35º Cold in Dixie. But, but it has stopped the damn rain.
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Old 01-06-2015, 07:58 AM   #5
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About 1 inch of snow, but no schools closed and the government opened on time, and it's the first snowfall of the season, so everyone has forgotten what to do.

Utter chaos in the DC area. The traffic here is usually just below the saturation point, so a little snow is enough of a catalyst to cause the traffic fluid to crystallize.

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I'm glad I walk and then take Metro underneath it all.
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Old 01-06-2015, 11:47 AM   #6
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Hey, what's this white shit... I don't think it was here yesterday.
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Old 01-06-2015, 09:29 PM   #7
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Colder than a pimp's heart out there.
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Old 01-06-2015, 11:04 PM   #8
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I've got 13.4 here... guess I'll have to throw on my robe to put the trash out.
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Old 01-07-2015, 10:17 AM   #9
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over 50 F yesterday, the same expected today. sweaty at work in the upper bay.
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Old 01-07-2015, 03:52 PM   #10
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It was 19 when I got up at ten this morning.

It's 13 now.

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Wind 24 mph, gusting to 33 mph.

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Windchill -5.

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That is bitter for KY.
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Old 01-07-2015, 04:31 PM   #11
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2 degrees F, -19F with the windshield factor.
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Old 01-07-2015, 05:45 PM   #12
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The talking heads on TV are doing their chicken little imitation, running in circles screaming, the temperature is falling, the temperature is falling.
Sure am glad they told me to wear a coat if I go outside, I wouldn't have thought of that.

National news says more than 200 million Americans will see lower than 20 degrees F tonight.
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Old 01-08-2015, 07:34 AM   #13
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2 degrees F, -19F with the windshield factor.
This. Only we don't have a windshield factor. We do have a windchill factor...local news says 20 to 30 below, factoring in the factor.

Crazy cold. Takes your breath away cold. Painful cold. Cold that makes 20 some degrees feel like a tropical oasis.

I really hate cold.
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Old 01-08-2015, 07:47 AM   #14
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I was all set to walk the mile to the metro in the 9 degree, -200 windshield factor, when my wife offered to drive me.

Hell, yeah!

So I went out and started the car to let it get a little warm inside, and it struggled getting started. But it did! All sorts of creaks and squeaks from the suspension going over the speed humps and such.

It's winter alright.
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Old 01-08-2015, 08:21 AM   #15
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So I went out and started the car to let it get a little warm inside, and it struggled getting started. But it did! All sorts of creaks and squeaks from the suspension going over the speed humps and such.
And what I noticed is this: when I went out in that frosty and started the car, I was all worried about it, like, how's it going to react to all this cold? I was worried for the first five minutes.

But I realized something: the exact moment I stopped worrying for it was when there was enough heat to heat ME up. Oh it's nice and toasty in here, car's doing fine!

No, car's still out there in that 5 degree weather. It's YOU who's doing fine...
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