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Even Sharks Are Freezing to Death. Winter Rages and the Nation Reels.
NY Times ^ | December 29, 2017 | Kara Murphy and Jack Healy

Posted on 12/29/2017 6:10:47 AM PST by C19fan

Shivering, snowbound cities are scrapping their outdoor New Year’s Eve countdowns. Polar-bear plunges are being canceled because of fears of frostbite and hypothermia. Winter-hardened towns are gaping at their new lows: 32 degrees below zero in Watertown, N.Y. Minus 36 in International Falls, Minn. Record-breaking snowfalls have stranded older and disabled residents inside their homes for days. Cars are buried under mountains of snow, and lethally low temperatures are forcing cities across the Northeast and Midwest to open emergency “warming centers” for homeless residents and people whose furnaces are no match for the cold.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalcooling; globalwarming; shark; weather; winter
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To: C19fan

Ms. Murphy and Ms. Healey need to look on the bright side. Polar Bears are dancing with joy, cavorting on solid ice that they aren’t stranded and starving while adrift on pitiful little icebergs anymore.


61 posted on 12/29/2017 9:15:18 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: C19fan

Is left shark ok?


62 posted on 12/29/2017 9:36:49 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: C19fan

We might get a sea trout kill here in NC along the shore. It’s happened before.


63 posted on 12/29/2017 9:37:02 AM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: WayneS

To this day I do not understand why humans would settle in an area with such a harsh climate. “”

Keeps out the riff-raff.


64 posted on 12/29/2017 9:39:17 AM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: lgjhn23

Some migratory fish are susceptible to rapid water temp changes.


65 posted on 12/29/2017 9:42:26 AM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: Vaquero

‘77-78 was a hell of a winter. I saw flurries in Miami.


66 posted on 12/29/2017 9:43:52 AM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: I want the USA back

Check out Joe Bastardi on Weather Bell daily videos and his Twitter.

He’s been calling this exact weather event for the past 6 weeks.


67 posted on 12/29/2017 9:48:17 AM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: Tax-chick

As soon as I saw a post that made practical sense I knew it was you.

You’re notorious.


68 posted on 12/29/2017 10:15:29 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (C - O - 2, I love you!)
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To: C19fan

Here in Michigan the ice fishermen fished the sharks to extinction.........


69 posted on 12/29/2017 10:18:23 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: Rebelbase

“....To this day I do not understand why humans would settle in an area with such a harsh climate.“
“Keeps out the riff-raff...”

That it does.
As one 80+ year old sea-faring Mainer from Cutler, Maine told me one day when I asked him about the harsh climate in the winter as he and his crew were unloading a catch of lobster: “Let me tell ya a little something, Sonny. It’s like this: There ain’t no poisonous snakes here, and there ain’t no baggy-ass pants around the ankles types in these parts....just too damn cold for both and that’s the way we like it. IF ya can’t stand the winters here, you sure as hell don’t deserve the summers. Now, move along now....unless ya want to buy some of these here fine Maine lobsters....” He said it all in a deep eastern Maine accent. I busted out laughing my ass off and ended up buying a couple of those “fine lobsters” off him....talk about delicious.


70 posted on 12/29/2017 10:40:26 AM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

If one’s going to be notorious, that seems a fairly good quality to overemphasize.


71 posted on 12/29/2017 10:41:20 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It is better to have a home full of misbehaving children than a silent house."~Kevin Williamson)
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To: C19fan

Just curious if any Freepers affected by the cold have electric cars, and if so, how are they faring in the extreme cold? Batteries typically don’t do well in extreme cold, and was curious if anyone can comment on how their Tesla, Volt, or other car is handling the cold.


72 posted on 12/29/2017 10:57:20 AM PST by Lurkus Maximus
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To: John O

Oh 24? Shit.


73 posted on 12/29/2017 6:20:13 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: John O

Oh ok. 2024 should be back around. Still... Global warming my butt.


74 posted on 12/29/2017 6:22:24 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Tax-chick

Apes always do the wrong thing. Every single time. Another ice age and another annihilation of ape civilization. The more things change, the more they stay the same. At least we got to the moon this run.


75 posted on 12/29/2017 6:56:41 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Red Badger

Targeted Cooling programs were not needed. Eating the forbidden fruit made the ice age return inevitable.


76 posted on 12/29/2017 7:03:33 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Vaquero

Used to hunt in the Southern Tier of NY - in the hills outside Angelica - joked with the ladies that we would spend one evening in Angelica to see the dancing girls - little bar had a pool table, slide bowling machine and a jukebox....loved traipsing through the hills - sometimes in snowmobile suits for reliable warmth.


77 posted on 12/30/2017 5:51:02 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone? I think Trump may give it back...)
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To: N. Theknow
I can't imagine what that would feel like - once it reaches single digits (above zero), I'm happy to stay inside.

Been in S. MS since stationed here in '86 and the hot humid Summers can seem as bad as a NY Winter - always a trade-off as to which season you prefer to enjoy - loved Spring-Summer-Fall up North and they combine into an extended Summer down here.

78 posted on 12/30/2017 5:54:30 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone? I think Trump may give it back...)
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To: IronJack

I used to keep a snowmobile outfit on the passenger floor of my car during the Winter - right under the heater vents “just in case”. Never been above 70 mph o a snow machine and in cold weather it was plenty....


79 posted on 12/30/2017 5:56:57 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone? I think Trump may give it back...)
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To: KC_Lion
Trouts?

:-)

80 posted on 12/30/2017 5:57:17 AM PST by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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