Posted on 12/07/2013 7:01:05 AM PST by cizinec
I just moved to Oklahoma City from Houston. It's 5 degrees outside. I lived in Houston for more than a decade. The coldest it got where I lived was about 20. Maybe. For a couple of hours. FIVE. DEGREES.
I didn't turn my pipes on to drip and am now trying to get some water out before it develops into a major disaster. Yeah, I've lived in a warm climate so long that I kind of forgot about winterization. The heater in my car, for instance, quit working. I needed antifreeze. I just changed the oil in my car to something lighter than I had in Houston.
My wife grew up in Montana. She told me I was a wimp. Last night she rolled over and said something about the water bill with all the dripping. I said, "What dripping?" She proceeded to cuss me out and call me all kinds of fool. Hey, I've been living on the Gulf Coast for a while, so lay off.
I'm going to sue the SOBs at the UN and Al Freaking Gore for their failure to deliver on global warming. I would accurately express the fury I feel about this ridiculous temperature, but the thread would get pulled for language.
I point out that I grew up in Northeast Oklahoma (Green Country). I NEVER remember it EVER getting down to 5. FIVE.
WHAT DO WE WANT!
GLOBAL WARMING!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT!
YESTERDAY!
Global warming. What a joke.
Don’t you live in Seattle? And it’s that cold, really?
When wifey’s mom died on a January day in central Minnesota, we traveled up from Kalifornia and bro-in-law served what he called “bank beer”......he’d set ‘em out in a pile of snow and grab as needed.
Nothing makes a day better than finding a “lost” beer when shoveling the walk!
And to think, on Dec 5, 1975 we had a tornado come through Tulsa!
Watch the venting for CO!
Global warming ain't a fear. It would just mean folks in MN and the Dakotas would get out of the permafrost. Think about the food Alaska could grow in the summer with all that sun.
Global cooling would suck.
We’re enjoying a heat wave at 21 degrees F here in the Willamette Valley, OR. This is the kind of weather that makes us appreciate the rain. We have about 6 inches of snow on the ground, & I’m very happy I don’t have anywhere to go for the next few days!
***you went from Texas to Oklahoma? Serves you right! /h***
Depends on what part of Texas he came from.(Houston). Now, if he had come from Dalhart, it would be a whole different situation. It is probably warmer in OKC than Dalhart right now.
I’ve always said its a lot easier to live in 100 degrees than 0
No kiddin
Try growing crops on frozen tundra.
“I swear I got married and had kids so I could look inept.”
hahahahaha!
We've been told confidently by the best scientific minds on the planet that will do it.......
Exactly.
The few dollars that dripping faucets cost in higher water bills are miminal compared to broken pipes and water damage when the ice in those pipes starts thawing.
our cold snap breaks today,
it dipped into the 40’s last night.
San Diego is Brutally Cold!
Well sir, with technology, I’d rather live in a heated place during the winter to keep me from freezing, than have to put up with 100° for multiple months. Having worked outside most of my life, I prefer working in the cold rather than the heat. It’s no contest for me.
Yup to both.
High pressure system sitting up over gulf of Alaska.
Pumps very cold, dry air down from BC and the Fraser river valley.
Coldest I ever saw it here was 9 degrees, that was back around 1987.
It got cold for a day, but I don’t remember it being five or anywhere below zero. I remember the teens.
I went to the NOAA and requested the data for the period I lived there. Maybe Texas sissified me.
It rains a lot in Seattle, but doesn’t get much snow because of the moderating effects of the ocean. I’ve lived in Upstate New York for forty years and rarely does it get below zero because of the Great Lakes having a similar effect.
Uh, oh!
-- you may need one of those heat guns they use for stripping paint to thaw the pipes
***I lived through the winter of 1976-1977 when the temperature dropped below 0 and stayed there for almost 3 months.***
If I remember, that was the year we had complete cloud coverage over all the continental USA. I think it was for a month. I came down with pneumonia, lived in an uninsulated house, used a winter’s supply of hay for the cattle in one month, a real bad year.
The Thanksgiving of 1976 was so cold we canceled a deer hunting trip because it was so cold and blowing! Our kin brought their camper and decided to stay in it that night. Sometime in the night, they came in and slept on the floor of the house. We used a huge tank of propane (400 dollars worth) in a month.
The spring of 1977 was just as bad with a very deep snow. I was trying to drive to work when my truck decided to turn it’s self around in the road and head back to the house.
I hate winter!
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