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.
One trick with any outside faucets (for the garden hose), is to tie a cover over it ( video). If you don't want to buy a special cover, a large styrofoam cup works too.
The coldest I’ve been in was -38F and a few other times at -30. Funny thing is that once you get to -5, it doesn’t seem that much colder at -30.
See my post #61, it will save you from having to do that all winter.
I have the gas alarm, and I know the signs of oxygen displacement.
I did ride submarines for a number of years.
LOL! I have seen it snow in SD on a number of occasions.
My parents are from the Willamette Valley! Isn’t 21 kind of cold for your parts?
My family moved to OR in the depression from Eastern Oklahoma (Native American and white mutts). My parents saw the writing on the wall and moved out. Somehow the whole family has ended up back in Oklahoma. My parents just moved to Fort Gibson last month to retire. My mom has so many family members there it was more like a homecoming.
I miss the Willamette Valley, though. When I go there for funerals, it’s like the dang Garden of Eden. I thought the locals were going to call the popo when I went two years ago. I made my cousin pull over so I could pick the wild blackberries growing on the side of the road. You can’t even buy them that nice in Houston.
I no crap ran out of beer yesterday. I used to make my own, but I haven’t unpacked my gear after moving up here yet. Ridiculous beer laws adds insult to injury.
The vodka, OTOH, is outside right now.
Isn’t it legal to homebrew in every state?
I can brew here, but can’t take it off my property. I can’t even give a neighbor a Stout to try!
I used to think that way . . . when I didn’t live in the cold. In Houston I had a swimming pool. When it got hot, you just jump in. I have a hot tub here. It’s frozen.
I think I’m going to man up, strip down, get on my swimming trunks, go outside and make a snow angel. I’ll show this SOB cold whose boss.
If you run out of vodka, post another thread and I'll see what I can do (from Illinois).
When you spit and it freezes before it hits the ground, it is cold.
In 1980 it got down to -40 and -50 and stayed that way for over two months in central Wyoming.
When it got back up to -20 we thought spring had come.
It’s legal here, but don’t know about every state. I started making beer in college (Oklahoma State) and once word got out I never had a reason to take my beer anywhere else. My place was packed every day. I don’t recall having enough beer left over to take anywhere.
I was good friends with the Roman Catholic priests in Stillwater. I seem to recall them getting a bit more than their 10%.
You might want to buy a better hot tub........
:-)
Yes, this is unusual for us. We’ll see a light snow at some point in the winter, but it usually doesn’t stay around for more than a day.
My sweetie’s mother was raised in a half-dugout in New Mexico. Friends of the family had moved to Oregon & sent back a note saying they’d found the land of milk and honey, & to get out there quick. Which they did.
We have a big bank of blackberry bushes on our property. We pick about 80 lbs each year, which end up in blackberry wine. Yum!
Yup,me too.
50 below in Indianapolis,
froze the hair in You’re nose!
git busy living,,,
My father-in-law used to say that he’d rather sweat twice than shovel once.
-17 here this morning with a windchill of -24...5 degrees seems balmy. Please send global warming.
Hey, if you can manage to snag some global warming in Oklahoma, think you could spare a cup or two for Colorado?
It finally turned winter here too, and people are acting like they forget it gets cold here every winter. Fancy that, cold in the winter time!
Well, we do get spoiled. It’ll go along at 60 all of November sometimes, and then BOOM! 10 below for a couple of weeks all of a sudden, just like that. Oh, and snow too! Which we do actually pray for here, because without major snow in the mountains in the winter, city and farm drought alike soon follow on the front range.
Nothing like yer breath freezing on yer beard.
These temps a mild respite from 108.
I haven’t had any problems for several years but I keep a hole open in the ice on the lake just in case. Big enough for a 5 gallon bucket for toilet flushing.
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