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Major Storm Causes Swath of Blackouts (at least 8 dead, almost 200,000 without power)
Daily Comet ^ | 12/23/07 | CARRIE ANTLFINGER

Posted on 12/23/2007 1:08:02 PM PST by Libloather

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Can Americans blame Canada for all this cold air? Y'all be careful out there.
1 posted on 12/23/2007 1:08:04 PM PST by Libloather
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Where is that climate prophet Algore when we need him? He could just give his canned “Inconvenient Truth” speech and the hot air would melt the glacier that has enveloped KS.
Wonder what would happen if it becomes apparent that another Ice Age is looming? The climate “experts” will never admit it, but it would be amusing to hear their explanations.


2 posted on 12/23/2007 1:12:53 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: Libloather

Darn global warming.


3 posted on 12/23/2007 1:13:43 PM PST by Always Right
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To: Libloather

It’s Canada’s fault. Or was it Bush’s fault. Maybe global warming.


4 posted on 12/23/2007 1:13:45 PM PST by Enterprise (Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!)
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To: Libloather

No electric power?

It’s how the environazis want us all to live.

Wait for the glowing reports of the ‘freedom’ of no electricity.


5 posted on 12/23/2007 1:15:05 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Libloather

Here in Kentucky, we dodged the worst of that monster - but we’ve been under gale-force winds since late last night.

And this thing came in like a jet! I was outside under sunny skies at 3PM Saturday, ducked inside before going to work - by 3:45, it was overcast and blowing. By 7PM, the rains started.

Power was out in parts of Louisville briefly today. The crews are out there in this mess, and here’s hoping they’re all right.


6 posted on 12/23/2007 1:15:58 PM PST by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: Libloather

Pushbroom on a foot of snow? Americans need to think ahead a little, maybe buy a decent snowshovel before it’s actually needed.


7 posted on 12/23/2007 1:16:43 PM PST by RightWhale (Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
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To: Libloather

This is why God made home generators.

When the power grid goes down (and it will), the standby generator is there to run the electrical devices on which so much of our lives depend.

Home generators may NEVER reach a cost-effective point in terms of pure economics (each kW of energy is going to cost WAY more than the power grid can supply it for) but the uncertainty and inconvenience of relying on the power company to restore power puts a double toll on the guy out there on the tower in a raging storm trying to reconnect the system - without causing a power surge or drop that knocks out the whole grid.


8 posted on 12/23/2007 1:16:59 PM PST by alloysteel (Ignorance is no handicap for some people in a debate. They just get more shrill.)
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To: Libloather

Sunny, 58 degrees and a very slight onshore breeze here in the Bay Area. Ahhh!


9 posted on 12/23/2007 1:18:50 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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Why? They have bought into Algore’s gloom and doom. We don’t need snow shovels...that snow is just our imagination!


10 posted on 12/23/2007 1:24:04 PM PST by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

58’s where it seems to be topping out here also....down near Palm Springs. I’m freezing. It got into the high 30’s predawn. That sucks too.


11 posted on 12/23/2007 1:24:39 PM PST by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: Always Right
It's proof positive that Global Warming Climate Change is real!
12 posted on 12/23/2007 1:28:09 PM PST by airborne (Proud to be a conservative! Proud to support Duncan Hunter for President!)
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To: Libloather
My 16 year commented on all the news reports about terrible winter storms

He said Dad:
"Why do news reports make such big deals out of snow storms in winter, what do they expect sunny and 75' degrees in December ?"

13 posted on 12/23/2007 1:30:31 PM PST by Popman
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Less than an inch, and that’s melting today here in Mid-Missouri. If we had to have another storm, glad it went to north of us. the last couple of ice storms were ‘beauts...
14 posted on 12/23/2007 1:42:55 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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Well, ya see, there's a lot of extra water in the oceans, see, from the melting ice caps, and that gets turned into storm clouds, see, that dump all that snow on y'all. See how that works?

</GW Bulls**t>

15 posted on 12/23/2007 1:58:31 PM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: Libloather

Seriously, it’s been noted in the New Media that these snowstorms are being deliberately played down in the MSM because they don’t fit the Global Warming template.


16 posted on 12/23/2007 1:59:28 PM PST by sinanju
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On the weather channel it’s not being downplayed, indeed it’s being pumped up as the worst weather ever. Jeez, people, it’s called WINTER! It’s a time of lousy weather, cold and snowstorms. It happens every bloody year about this time, too.


17 posted on 12/23/2007 2:34:53 PM PST by Don W ( Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.)
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To: Libloather

I’m in MI. It was 46 degrees here and all the snow we had melted. From what I can see, no white Christmas. Where was this at?


18 posted on 12/23/2007 2:42:55 PM PST by netmilsmom (Financing James Marsden's kid's college fund, 1 ticket, 1 DVD at a time.)
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I’m in central Wisconsin. A lot of our snow melted last week but we have 8-10 inches of new snow since last night.


19 posted on 12/23/2007 3:15:40 PM PST by elli1
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It’s 19 degrees now and 50,000 in SW Michigan are without power.
Where are you?


20 posted on 12/23/2007 3:29:39 PM PST by MaryFromMichigan (Merry Christmas!)
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