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Just things I wonder about ... and some people are nice enough to answer. You are welcome to answer, too ... just click on "Comments" and off you go! IF you don't want to be Anonymous, use the Name/URL option and just put in your name ... no URL required .... Starting Jan 28th, 2009, I am using questions from "Table Topics: Right or Wrong?"
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Cincin, it is 17 right now, when I left home to come to work today it was -4, and we are subbosed to get 3-6 inches of snow tonight. Wanna trade. Seriously, I think the worst was the first christmas we were in Michigan, we left to go to my MIL's at about 5 in the morning and it was -13. BRRRRRR
Mrs Qball
The coldest I have ever experienced personally was a -80 degrees windchill on Christmas Day in Northern Illinois ... I forget what year it was. That was one day that I was very happy it was our turn to host the Family Holiday celebrations!! Everyone still came out ... but Nana was very late ... we thought the reindeer might have run over her ...
The worst weather was the one year ... January 1979, I believe, when it snowed so much that our country road actually had 6 feet of snow piled up on it ... and 10 foot drifts in our front yard. The plows weren't able to open our road for 2 whole weeks. People brought us supplies on snowmobiles and Dad went to feed the cattle on a snowmobile. That snowmobile would go untouched for years and years ... but when we needed it ... we needed it!!
GOOD QUESTION WHEATHER IT WAS YESTERDAY OR TODAY. IT WAS RIGHT
AROUND 0 DEG BOTH MORNINGS GETTING TO THE COFFEE SHOP. WHEN
IT IS BELOW 75 DEG IT IS COLD,COLD,
COLD. IN THE OLDEN DAYS WHEN WE WERE A LOT YOUNGER THE TEMP WAS
NEVER NOTICED AND THE SNOW WAS FOR
SLEDS,TOBACANS,SKIS AND OTHER GOOD
STUFF LIKE THAT. NOW THAT ALL HAS
BEEN PUT AWAY WITH THE TRICYLE AND
IT'S "KEEP YOUR FEET UNDER YOU" OR
ELSE!!!!!!!!
It was a cold & stormy night . . .
In Breckenridge Colorado, on a ski trip - it was 30 below zero, not counting the wind chill, with a blizzard.
No skiiing done that day, but lots of drinking.
While working for the British Army in Germany, Winter of 1986-87, it got -40 Degrees Farenheit,no wind chill; which as it so happpens is - 40 Celsius. I had to stand on a gate overnight with Field Jacket and Parka. The concept of freezing to death really took on a literal context.
BY THE WAY........MENTION WAS MADE
ABOUT AN "HONORS BREAKFAST". WHAT
IS IT AND IS IT A QUAINT TEXAS THING???????
A few years come to mind. Most being since I've been married. (I guess I mark time that way...After marriage;Before kids; After kids;etc.LOL) Anyway...the 1st was Feb.1981. Lot's of snow and ice and below zero wind chills and snow drifts. Then there was the winter of the snow, ice, snow, ice storms, when school was closed for 2 weeks and we had wonderful Amish Dairy farmers delivering Milk and Eggs to neighbors who were snowed in...I believe that was in 1992? Then the year my Dad passed away (2003), was one of the worst winters. It was freezing constantly! On the day of his Memorial Service in Feb., all the streets in South Philly were almost impassable and because Gov. Street had sent all the snow removal trucks to the stadium for the the Eagles Divisional Championship Game, many of my Dad's friends could not get to the funeral home!Ahhh...Philly! The City of Brotherly Love!
I remember many cold winters as a child where we actually made forts out of the snow drifts and we had power outtages due to ice on the lines. Because our house used gas rather than electric,a lot of the neighbors would come over to our house to cook or dry their clothes, etc. But as kids, for some reason, we didn't seem to notice the "bone chilling cold". We just kept thinking of sledding and skating a tobaggoning down RoseAnne's great hill! That's probably why my brother almost lost a few toes to frostbite! We were walking across a frozen creek and his foot broke through a thin area and went in and his boot filled with water. He just took it off, dumped out the water, put it back on and continued playing. Days later,my Mom noticed him limping and took his shoe and sock off and his toes were black! Nasty!
yesterday afternoon when i had to scrape the ice off my windshield after school.
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