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MUScoop => The Superbar => Topic started by: tower912 on January 26, 2019, 07:59:57 PM
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I remember weekends at MU during 86-87-88 where it never got above zero with windchills under the former scale reaching -40. I went to the bars anyway. In 1994, the last time we had several days in a row on this side of the lake where it did not get above zero, I spent two of those days riding an old school tailboard on a fire engine with wet gear returning from fires. The coldest I have ever been. Eyelashes freezing shut when I blinked.
What is the coldest you remember being and what are your plans for this week?
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Tower
Jan 17, 1982 was the coldest day in MKE history at -26 and windchills somewhere around-60-65. I spent the early evening at MU game, I believe against X, and then the next six hours at Art’s Performing Center. I highly recommend anyone under the age of 55 to do the same this week.
FYI the minus -26 was tied in ‘96 and I had my ass on the couch with my four kids. Now my kids are all grown, if we have a chance to break the record, I will be out on the town.
EDIT— MU played Creighton on 16th and record cold was broken after midnight on the 17th. I experienced most that could be experienced on that historic night.
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I'm going to go with February of 1996. I just remember it being brutally cold with the most miserable windchills, tried to go to the mailbox and felt like I was going to freeze in place.
Wasn't as cold where I lived, but it is when the coldest temperature (-55 without the windchill) was recorded in the state of Wisconsin.
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Jan 17, 1982 was the coldest day in MKE history at -26 and windchills somewhere around-60-65. I spent the early evening at MU game, I believe against X, and then the next six hours at Art’s Performing Center. I highly recommend anyone under the age of 55 to do the same this week.
FYI the minus -26 was tied in ‘96 and I had my ass on the couch with my four kids. Now my kids are all grown, if we have a chance to break the record, I will be out on the town.
EDIT— MU played Creighton on 16th and record cold was broken after midnight on the 17th. I experienced most that could be experienced on that historic night.
Damn, Goose, I musta been at that game with you. I can't remember that much.
One winter when we lived in the Twin Cities, I think it was a stretch of something like 30 straight days that the temp did not break 0. When the stretch finally ended -- it got all the way up to 20 degrees! -- folks were running around in short sleeves.
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Wuzz woderin' wy MKE had a record number of births on Octber 17, 1982, hey?
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Taking the battery out of the old 55' Chevey convertable into Schroeder at night. The snow sweaked, the clothes crinkled like paper, the Milwaukee Journal would show the sun on the front page when it appeared.
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Tower
Jan 17, 1982 was the coldest day in MKE history at -26 and windchills somewhere around-60-65. I spent the early evening at MU game, I believe against X, and then the next six hours at Art’s Performing Center. I highly recommend anyone under the age of 55 to do the same this week.
FYI the minus -26 was tied in ‘96 and I had my ass on the couch with my four kids. Now my kids are all grown, if we have a chance to break the record, I will be out on the town.
EDIT— MU played Creighton on 16th and record cold was broken after midnight on the 17th. I experienced most that could be experienced on that historic night.
My childhood neighbor got married that night in New Berlin and I went to that rather than the game. I headed to the Gym after the wedding. Cold, cold, cold.
BTW the marriage turned out to be as cold as the night and lasted about 3 months.
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Archie
I was at The Gym pre game. It was big time cold. I ended up waiting a couple of hours for a cab from George Webb’s on Jefferson and Wells at 3am.
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It's only -44 in I-Falls right now....with fog too.
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As a Midwestern seasonal ex-pat, I sometimes miss winter in Chicago.
But today, I understand.
We're going to get about the same level of precipitation as Chicago and Milwaukee here on the Treasure Coast.
Our's will be in the form of liquid drops.
Milwaukee's will be in the form of crystals -- lots and lots of them.
Our temperature will be, with the wind chill, 62, tomorrow. MIlwaukee's will be -62 (or thereabouts).
Enough said.
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Archie
I was at The Gym pre game. It was big time cold. I ended up waiting a couple of hours for a cab from George Webb’s on Jefferson and Wells at 3am.
Goose:
We likely crossed paths at The Gym, although I also split my time with the Lanche.
Just watched the weather channel. I feel for you folks in the Midwest. It gets cold here in Virginia, but nothing like what you will see over the next few days.
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As a Midwestern seasonal ex-pat, I sometimes miss winter in Chicago.
But today, I understand.
We're going to get about the same level of precipitation as Chicago and Milwaukee here on the Treasure Coast.
Our's will be in the form of liquid drops.
Milwaukee's will be in the form of crystals -- lots and lots of them.
Our temperature will be, with the wind chill, 62, tomorrow. MIlwaukee's will be -62 (or thereabouts).
Enough said.
I do not miss the winters, wouldn't care if I never saw another snowflake.
That being said, I often say stuff like this to my wife: "If we had to, or if our son has kids and we want to be closer to them, we could move back to Chicago."
And I do really mean that. But when we were in Chicago and Milwaukee for the last 2 MU games and to visit family/friends, I was cold the whole time. Especially the walk from the parking lot to that Providence game ... my eyelashes practically froze. That was effen cold, and I'm not sure I'd want to deal with that again.
Maybe in 5-6 years after my wife retires, but only if we also can go somewhere warm for a huge chunk of the winter.
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Archie
I spent my days at The Lanche and evenings at The Gym. No doubt we crossed paths at some point.
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My routines were similar. After Sophomore year, I realized I realized I needed to significantly improve my academic performance. Sunday through Wednesday, I'd religiously go to the library about 5pm, then around 10pm stop at the Lanche on the way home for a few beers and some pool.
Thursday was the same, but the final destination was The Gym since Thursday was pitcher night.
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I remember weekends at MU during 86-87-88 where it never got above zero with windchills under the former scale reaching -40. I went to the bars anyway. In 1994, the last time we had several days in a row on this side of the lake where it did not get above zero, I spent two of those days riding an old school tailboard on a fire engine with wet gear returning from fires. The coldest I have ever been. Eyelashes freezing shut when I blinked.
What is the coldest you remember being and what are your plans for this week?
Three memories come to mind...
First at Marquette, it was -12 with a far lower windchill and classes didn't get cancelled. I was living off campus, and the walk from my car on State Street to Lalu was brutal.
Second, a fire where we were sent in to do mop-up duty in an attic. Only like -5, but the roof had been stripped and when we got up there, someone had shut off the hose so the water froze in the hose in the backyard. We were already wet and had to stand around waiting in this attic with no roof as the wind ripped through us for 20 minutes while another company deployed a second line to us. And honestly, all we were doing was spraying water at the steam that was rising from the water we had already put in the building. That was the longest 20 minutes of my life, waiting for that damn redeployed line.
Third was me avoiding cold. I was on the busiest MED unit in the state and it was -17. No one wanted to go outside, we took 3 calls all day and only 1 after midnight at a rig that averaged 14 and regularly got into the mid-20s. The engine had a fire that night and when they got back, the probationer's helmet had a half-inch layer of ice frozen all around. I was never so glad to be on the MED unit in my life. Today feels like another one of those days.
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My coldest time was on Mille Lacs. Got down to -32. Four of us got food poisoning that night from a restaurant in town. Awesome.
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My coldest time was on Mille Lacs. Got down to -32. Four of us got food poisoning that night from a restaurant in town. Awesome.
Brother Chili, you have been out in the cold way, way too long!!!!!!
Try Florida next time!
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Taking the battery out of the old 55' Chevey convertable into Schroeder at night. The snow sweaked, the clothes crinkled like paper, the Milwaukee Journal would show the sun on the front page when it appeared.
That's one long Chevy!
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7128/7026190267_9072f866d1.jpg)
(yes I know it's a 57)
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Stuck on a chairlift at Vail in 2014. -2 degrees without factoring in the wind, which whipped like the bone-shaking tempest it was. Just as my chair cusped over the lip of a wide open bowl, where the frozen wind swooshed into the valley, the chair stopped. For 20 minutes.
I never thought it possible to feel colder than the night I spent in a tragically thin tent at Everest Base Camp, but that day at Vail instructed otherwise.
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That's one long Chevy!
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7128/7026190267_9072f866d1.jpg)
(yes I know it's a 57)
Without rust over the headlamps. Ahhh, when cars were cars and men were men.
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One winter when we lived in the Twin Cities, I think it was a stretch of something like 30 straight days that the temp did not break 0. When the stretch finally ended -- it got all the way up to 20 degrees! -- folks were running around in short sleeves.
Sounds like the winter that I moved to MN, IIRC that was early 1988. Luckily I had heated parking and lived across the street from the office (and had a grocery and a liquor store right there) in S. St. Paul.
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Sounds like the winter that I moved to MN, IIRC that was early 1988. Luckily I had heated parking and lived across the street from the office (and had a grocery and a liquor store right there) in S. St. Paul.
Sounds about right, WJ.
Another "winter" when we lived there, we had 30+ inches of snow on Halloween!
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Be careful. No reason to be outside for very long. My daughter said the school will send an email out tomorrow at 5:30am if classes are canceled. About -15 windchill here at the moment, up at MU it is -19. Tomorrow will be a temperature she has never felt in her life.
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Closed until Thursday at noon. All the universities in Chicago are closed as well. It’s the right call.
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Dumb luck, but I just happened to plan one of my escapes from Wisconsin for this week, down in Az and just realized that there is about a 100 degree difference between here(mid 70’s) and you guys(minus 20’s, not counting the windchill ).
And the earth....has a fever??? 😉. 😳. 😁
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Dumb luck, but I just happened to plan one of my escapes from Wisconsin for this week, down in Az and just realized that there is about a 100 degree difference between here(mid 70’s) and you guys(minus 20’s, not counting the windchill ).
And the earth....has a fever??? 😉. 😳. 😁
Climate and weather are not the same thing. Be smarter.
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Dumb luck, but I just happened to plan one of my escapes from Wisconsin for this week, down in Az and just realized that there is about a 100 degree difference between here(mid 70’s) and you guys(minus 20’s, not counting the windchill ).
And the earth....has a fever??? 😉. 😳. 😁
So you, too, are going on record and saying global warming is fake news? And a cold couple days is your proof?
If we get a couple days in a row of 110 in Wisconsin in August will you then give in and say global warming is a thing?
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So you, too, are going on record and saying global warming is fake news? And a cold couple days is your proof?
If we get a couple days in a row of 110 in Wisconsin in August will you then give in and say global warming is a thing?
Yup
Nope
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On this side of the lake, it is only -5, but we have received nearly 2 feet of snow since Monday, the last foot of it being pure Michigan lake effect. Do you prefer the insane, once in a lifetime cold with less snow, or would you prefer mere bone chilling cold with a whole bunch of snow?
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On this side of the lake, it is only -5, but we have received nearly 2 feet of snow since Monday, the last foot of it being pure Michigan lake effect. Do you prefer the insane, once in a lifetime cold with less snow, or would you prefer mere bone chilling cold with a whole bunch of snow?
I'd take the snow any day of the week. Plenty of fun to have with a few feet of snow and 30 degrees. You lose both of your feet with no snow and -20 degrees.
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Closed until Thursday at noon. All the universities in Chicago are closed as well. It’s the right call.
Doesn't stop me from going to the Nova/DePaul game tonight...at least they offered free indoor parking ;D
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On this side of the lake, it is only -5, but we have received nearly 2 feet of snow since Monday, the last foot of it being pure Michigan lake effect. Do you prefer the insane, once in a lifetime cold with less snow, or would you prefer mere bone chilling cold with a whole bunch of snow?
I deal with every other week when I drive from our Chicago to offices to our cider farm in Fennville. Whenever it's crazy cold in Chicago we all know it's lake effect time in Michigan - which sucks. Especially since the state has something against using salt on the interstate - specifically 196 becomes crazy.
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Made it's way to us here in Cleveland overnight. It's currently -2 /-32. Brrrrrrr
Just hoping to avoid any problems with the pipes. We've got every faucet in the house drip, drip, dripping.
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Talked to someone in St. Louis this morning who was complaining about -21 wind chill.
We are making ice!
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So you, too, are going on record and saying global warming is fake news? And a cold couple days is your proof?
If we get a couple days in a row of 110 in Wisconsin in August will you then give in and say global warming is a thing?
Rocket serves as consistent proof that we're observing the last days of Rome.
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I deal with every other week when I drive from our Chicago to offices to our cider farm in Fennville. Whenever it's crazy cold in Chicago we all know it's lake effect time in Michigan - which sucks. Especially since the state has something against using salt on the interstate - specifically 196 becomes crazy.
Love that ride. I've done that lake effect nightmare too many times. FYI, salt doesn't work below about 10f.
My brother worked at that cider farm a couple of years ago, I think. Virtue Cider?
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Chilly here in NC today, too.
Why it might get all the way down to 40!
Thank goodness global warming isn't real, or it would be 140 here.
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Rocket serves as consistent proof that we're observing the last days of Rome.
Many other things that could be a sign of the last days of Rome buddy, da climate ain’t in the top 10 but go ahead and suck yer drinks thru a paper straw outta a paper mache cup riding yer car powered by solar panels and see ya at the finish line 👍
But, baby it’s cold outside!!
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I left the kitchen faucet dripping last night to prevent freeze, which worked with the -20 degree temps.
This morning, I had some Arby's and figured -12 was toasty and stopped the dripping. 2 hours later, frozen pipe. 25 minutes of swearing and heat later, I got it unfrozen.
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'82, I also remember those days in Minnesota. We plugged in our cars at night and school NEVER closed, even in blizzards. Of course, we all went to neighborhood schools then and didn't have to rely on diesel busses getting started and picking us up on a corner at the right time. I can remember a week in 1985 when we went shopping and left our car running while we were in the stores. We just don't see cold like that anymore.
Oh, and rocket? My car that is charged by solar panels worked great today! I turned it on and preheated it to 68 degrees, then got in and drove in comfort from my insulated garage at home to my heated garage at work. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it!
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I was telling my son about buckle/zip rubber boots that you would put on over your shoes, sometimes using breadbags to help get your feet in. He looked at me like I was not speaking English (as 12 year olds are wont to to) Did anybody else use boots like this growing up? From an insulation standpoint, you may as well have been barefoot.
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I left the kitchen faucet dripping last night to prevent freeze, which worked with the -20 degree temps.
This morning, I had some Arby's and figured -12 was toasty and stopped the dripping. 2 hours later, frozen pipe. 25 minutes of swearing and heat later, I got it unfrozen.
You can never stop dripping those old pipes brother. Otherwise ya gotta heat 'em for hours to get any reaction.
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I was telling my son about buckle/zip rubber boots that you would put on over your shoes, sometimes using breadbags to help get your feet in. He looked at me like I was not speaking English (as 12 year olds are wont to to) Did anybody else use boots like this growing up? From an insulation standpoint, you may as well have been barefoot.
Absolutely. My parents always made me get the zipper ones because the buckles broke off too easily. But the buckles were cooler. Damn.
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Absolutely. My parents always made me get the zipper ones because the buckles broke off too easily. But the buckles were cooler. Damn.
I used to hate those things. A pain in the neck to put on and take off. I'll bet kindergarten teachers hated them more than anyone.
It gets cold here, but a below zero temp is rare. We are looking at some single digits with negative wind chill tomorrow, but nothing like you in the Midwest face.
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I was telling my son about buckle/zip rubber boots that you would put on over your shoes, sometimes using breadbags to help get your feet in. He looked at me like I was not speaking English (as 12 year olds are wont to to) Did anybody else use boots like this growing up? From an insulation standpoint, you may as well have been barefoot.
I always loved when we went through another loaf and got a fresh bag. By that time one had a couple holes and was all wrinkly.
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I was telling my son about buckle/zip rubber boots that you would put on over your shoes, sometimes using breadbags to help get your feet in. He looked at me like I was not speaking English (as 12 year olds are wont to to) Did anybody else use boots like this growing up? From an insulation standpoint, you may as well have been barefoot.
Yup.
I'll never forget the time in kindergarten that I left them in the garage overnight, but didn't tell my mom because I thought she'd be mad, and walked to school with blocks of ice in the bottom.
My mom got a call from the teacher that night.
Today that call would probably come from DCFS.
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Yup
Nope
Not fake news, but then again climate is always changing. Ice ages, mini ice ages, heat periods, etc.
What bothers me is that we’re going to throw trillions at it, won’t do a damn thing at all ( or so little as to make no impact) and what could that money be used for instead? But it isn’t fake news, it is always changing and always will.
The great news for some people is it can be blamed for all outcomes which convenient and nice.
Good day boo boo....off to Atlanta
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Fun video of some of the Schroeder kids out at 3:50am Monday morning playing in the snow. When they got the classes canceled word the dorm largely went into Fort Nite / play in snow mode until sunrise.
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Not fake news, but then again climate is always changing. Ice ages, mini ice ages, heat periods, etc.
What bothers me is that we’re going to throw trillions at it, won’t do a damn thing at all ( or so little as to make no impact) and what could that money be used for instead? But it isn’t fake news, it is always changing and always will.
The great news for some people is it can be blamed for all outcomes which convenient and nice.
Good day boo boo....off to Atlanta
You're very lucky this is a politics-free zone, or I'd be opening up a can of scientific facts on you.
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You're very lucky this is a politics-free zone, or I'd be opening up a can of scientific facts on you.
Was just thinking the same thing, but decided that it wasn't worth it.
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You're very lucky this is a politics-free zone, or I'd be opening up a can of scientific facts on you.
Feel free, as long as it isn’t political why the issue? Bring the facts.
Has climate not always changed as I said?
Have there been periods of cooling and warming as I have said?
Expected cost outlay to drop temperature by such a small amount to not have any material impact. So say the scientists.
Pretty sure science backs those claims up 100%.
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Let's talk about rubber boots some more. Seems like the girls had red. IDK, kinda didn't like girls much then.
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You're very lucky this is a politics-free zone, or I'd be opening up a can of scientific facts on you.
Please don’t. We all will have to put up with 30 holier than thou, pontificating posts with links to some kooks who claims the earth is actually getting colder.
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Wait till it hits a 120 down here in Az. Ya know what they say...ya can dress for the cold, but ya can also UNdress for the warm...yeehaw!
Speaking of boots, nothing better than seeing only boots, eyn’a?😮
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Its 74 in Scottsdale as we speak. Had my donuts from the Donut Bar today...life us good
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Even a thread that basically started as "How bout that weather today?" is on the road to Locktown.
Sigh.
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Its 74 in Scottsdale as we speak. Had my donuts from the Donut Bar today...life us good
Hey dog, hitting the waste management tomorrow for round one. I’ll take g. Warming over cooling any day
Btw, do you know one certain wisco atty. turned judge down here in Phoenix? From a family of attys who were friends of jb. speaking of which, I just heard they suspended his law license-holy schmit!!
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-18 now.
Cut the political bs too. All of you.
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You can never stop dripping those old pipes brother. Otherwise ya gotta heat 'em for hours to get any reaction.
they got pills for that now, kin. In fact viagra is now generic, so don't have to spend as much on heat.
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34 here in the ATL
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got a chance to touch a witch's teat today. it felt about the same as the air temp. :o
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IBTL climate change edition.
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Dumb luck, but I just happened to plan one of my escapes from Wisconsin for this week, down in Az and just realized that there is about a 100 degree difference between here(mid 70’s) and you guys(minus 20’s, not counting the windchill ).
And the earth....has a fever??? 😉. 😳. 😁
Get inspired recently?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090074254010404864?s=19
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they got pills for that now, kin. In fact viagra is now generic, so don't have to spend as much on heat.
OTHER guys Ziggy. Please. And I still have all my hair too.
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Get inspired recently?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090074254010404864?s=19
Don't worry, it'll be wam again. Maybe even smocking hot.
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Love that ride. I've done that lake effect nightmare too many times. FYI, salt doesn't work below about 10f.
My brother worked at that cider farm a couple of years ago, I think. Virtue Cider?
That would be the cider farm. We make some good $hit.
I am well versed in road salt as the wife works for Morton and does a lot of work with the bulk deicing team. As you know, because of microclimate MI is in it's rarely as cold in the fruit belt as it is in Chicago. Pluses and minuses. Just make sure I have AWD and Waze running and we'll be ok.
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Coldest? Yesterday.
I'm in Yakutsk, Russia and decided to walk back to the hotel from dinner. Wearing a suit and overcoat after a day of meetings. Only a 10 minute walk and my eyes were freezing shut. Checked the temp when I got to the hotel... -44C. (-47F).
The good part - my flight this morning was delayed (fog, <300m vis) so I was able to watch the game on Fox Sports Go through my VPN!
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Coldest? Yesterday.
I'm in Yakutsk, Russia and decided to walk back to the hotel from dinner. Wearing a suit and overcoat after a day of meetings. Only a 10 minute walk and my eyes were freezing shut. Checked the temp when I got to the hotel... -44C. (-47F).
The good part - my flight this morning was delayed (fog, <300m vis) so I was able to watch the game on Fox Sports Go through my VPN!
Wow. Talk about a fan. Watching from Yakutsk!
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That would be the cider farm. We make some good $hit.
I am well versed in road salt as the wife works for Morton and does a lot of work with the bulk deicing team. As you know, because of microclimate MI is in it's rarely as cold in the fruit belt as it is in Chicago. Pluses and minuses. Just make sure I have AWD and Waze running and we'll be ok.
Yes you do. The micro climates near the lake are fascinating. Hence the uptick in wineries and cideries. And the cherry production up by Traverse. BTW, if anyone likes cherries, google Cherry Republic. You're welcome.
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We need to merge this thread with the Millennials thread.
Because when I was young, the temp was always minus-something all winter. And I used to walk 20 miles to school ... uphill ... both directions. And I didn't have shoes; my papa just tied pieces of cardboard to my feet. And we had to walk to the outhouse every time we needed to make #1 or #2. And we didn't have Global Waming to wam things up for us, like the lucky Millennials today do.
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Coldest? Yesterday.
I'm in Yakutsk, Russia and decided to walk back to the hotel from dinner. Wearing a suit and overcoat after a day of meetings. Only a 10 minute walk and my eyes were freezing shut. Checked the temp when I got to the hotel... -44C. (-47F).
The good part - my flight this morning was delayed (fog, <300m vis) so I was able to watch the game on Fox Sports Go through my VPN!
Yakutsk? That's one of the territories on the RISK board.
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Coldest? Yesterday.
I'm in Yakutsk, Russia and decided to walk back to the hotel from dinner. Wearing a suit and overcoat after a day of meetings. Only a 10 minute walk and my eyes were freezing shut. Checked the temp when I got to the hotel... -44C. (-47F).
The good part - my flight this morning was delayed (fog, <300m vis) so I was able to watch the game on Fox Sports Go through my VPN!
If you don't mind sharing, what brings you there? Very unique place to be traveling.
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Yakutsk? That's one of the territories on the RISK board.
My favorite game as a kid.
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My favorite game as a kid.
I think I'm still playing a game I started as a kid.
Risk was fun ... but a game took forever!
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Speaking of board games...just started playing Catan...really like that game
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(https://preview.redd.it/o0hb90b0itd21.jpg?width=651&auto=webp&s=ffc0e4df06c1e4a9a5e045f229c622d47a2a4bdc)
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Smoking some candied bacon tonight. Pecan wood. F the vortex.
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You're very lucky this is a politics-free zone, or I'd be opening up a can of scientific facts on you.
Some of us are scientists and engineers who are actually doing something about reducing PM, GHG, NOx, and SOx emissions. Most of the truths spouted have no actual basis in scientific evidence.
It's one thing to moan and complain. It's quite yet another to actually do something about it.
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If you don't mind sharing, what brings you there? Very unique place to be traveling.
Let's just say I get paid to go to crazy places like this. I've been in more parts of China than most Chinese people, more of India than 99% of Indians, all over Indonesia and S.E. Asia and more of Russia than most Russians.
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Let's just say I get paid to go to crazy places like this. I've been in more parts of China than most Chinese people, more of India than 99% of Indians, all over Indonesia and S.E. Asia and more of Russia than most Russians.
Are you a secret agent?
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Some of us are scientists and engineers who are actually doing something about reducing PM, GHG, NOx, and SOx emissions. Most of the truths spouted have no actual basis in scientific evidence.
It's one thing to moan and complain. It's quite yet another to actually do something about it.
umm, I refuse to buy or use stryrofoam cups, that oughta count for something eyn’a 💪
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Are you a secret agent?
He’d have to kill us all if he answered that question.
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Let's just say I get paid to go to crazy places like this. I've been in more parts of China than most Chinese people, more of India than 99% of Indians, all over Indonesia and S.E. Asia and more of Russia than most Russians.
Keefe?
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Some of us are scientists and engineers who are actually doing something about reducing PM, GHG, NOx, and SOx emissions. Most of the truths spouted have no actual basis in scientific evidence.
It's one thing to moan and complain. It's quite yet another to actually do something about it.
Keefe?
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Are you a secret agent?
I swear I saw him at a Baccarat table telling somebody: "Fan. WarriorFan."
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Keefe?
keefe is nestled in Seattle getting ready to take Miss Wendy to dinner at Spruce and Sitka on Lenny's old stomping grounds of Capitol Hill.
His days of jumping out of aircraft from 28k' to kill bad guys are over.
keefe did have dinner recently with one of his guys who went to a sh1tty place and proved himself as a man. SSgt Dick "Big Game" Hunter went into harm's way and lived to tell about it. Nothing short of incredible.
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1346342/secaf-awards-air-force-cross-10-medals-to-air-commandos/
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- The team was trapped, outnumbered and bombarded by grenades and machine gun fire from elevated positions. Bullets ricocheted around them.
Ordnance from circling, friendly aircraft exploded meters from their position, shaking the ground, as smoke from an exploded cache smothered the village.
Their mission was originally to kill or capture high value Taliban leaders that fateful night Nov. 2, 2016, in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, but as the enemy closed in around them, they quickly realized their mission had changed: survive.
SecAF commends Airmen for valor
Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson awarded ten valorous medals, including the Air Force Cross, to Air Force Special Operations Command air commandos in a ceremony, Oct. 17, 2017 held at Hurlburt Field.
“This mission was a perfect example of the power of our Special Tactics Airmen when teamed with American airpower and the nation’s elite ground forces,” said Wilson. “It reminds the world of what makes us who we are, and it reminds our enemies that there is no place to hide.”
Staff Sgt. Richard Hunter, a 23rd Special Tactics Squadron special tactics combat controller, was awarded the Air Force’s highest medal, the Air Force Cross, for gallantry against an armed enemy of the U.S. in combat.
Special Tactics Airmen are the Air Force's ground special operations force, specializing in everything from precision strike to personnel recovery on the battlefield and during humanitarian crises.
Additionally, five members of Spooky 43, the AC-130U gunship aircrew that supported the ground special operations team during the same operation were awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses and four received Air Medals with Valor.
The AC-130U “Spooky” gunship’s primary missions are close air support, air interdiction and armed reconnaissance. Close air support missions include supporting troops in contact and providing convoy escort. The gunship is outfitted with 40 mm, 105 mm cannons and a 25 mm Gatling gun for precise and powerful strikes on the battlefield.
"This mission proved to be the ultimate test of our air commandos in air-to-ground integration on the battlefield," said Lt. Gen. Brad Webb, AFSOC commander. "Hunter and Spooky 43's precision strike capabilities were pushed to the limits under extreme fire to eliminate our enemies and defend our joint partners."
The actions of Spooky 43 in the air and Hunter on the ground were credited with eliminating the enemy and saving the lives of the Army special forces team and 43 Afghan soldiers involved in the deadly ambush.
“What was truly extraordinary when I read this story was the amazing precision and professionalism of the team,” said Wilson. “When we need swift, precise violence, we call them. There is no better friend and no worse enemy than the United States special operations forces.”
Chaos on the ground, hate raining from above
Hunter was embedded with a Army special forces team and their Afghan partners when they were ambushed by heavy machine gun fire from an elevated position as they entered a village, Nov. 2, 2016, near Kunduz, Afghanistan.
“We came across a large, metal gate that had been closed prior to our arrival; I want you to imagine something 12 feet tall, about a quarter inch thick steel, a pretty massive piece of metal in front of us,” said Hunter. “We found ourselves in a three-way ambush, 270 degrees all around us.”
Finding themselves trapped in the village, and in a dire situation, Hunter and his team withstood an enemy ambush of grenades and machine gun fire, resulting in four friendly force injuries.
Hunter charged forward under enemy fire, leaving cover to drag a wounded teammate back with one hand, while using his free hand to call in suppressive fire through close air support from the Spooky 43 crew overhead.
“At this point, (the team) is dragging (casualties) down the alleyway while still returning fire, and we’re using all of our weapons on the aircraft to destroy fighting positions and buildings … all within about 12 meters of Staff Sgt. Hunter,” said Maj. Alexander Hill, Spooky 43 aircraft commander. “We told Hunter to put his head down, and we fired closer than I think anyone’s ever fired an air-burst round.”
As the Spooky 43 crew received the calls from Hunter on the ground for the firepower necessary to deter the enemy, they were required to exceed cooling requirements on the 105 mm Howitzer cannon, risking potential detonation inside the aircraft. With their expert skill and coordination, the crew was able to support the ground forces with the 40 mm cannon and at times forced to manually fire rounds called on by Hunter to defeat the enemy.
According to Hill, the crew actively fired every weapon available to them for 107 consecutive minutes during the battle.
"To see the teamwork in particular and how good and professional everyone was, when they absolutely had to be – I couldn’t be more proud to be a part of that,” said Hill.
With the smoke from the battle becoming too thick for the team to maneuver through the village, Hunter took direction from the aircraft overhead as he continued to call in enemy positions. Hunter expended all AC-130U point-detonate 105 mm rounds, with only eight airburst rounds remaining. With the enemy element closing on the ground forces, the aircrew was able to stabilize the aircraft and fire an airburst round, typically used in open fields, at an unprecedented 12 meters from friendly forces, annihilating the insurgents.
Hunter and the Spooky 43 crew worked together to call in fire from AH-64 Apache helicopters, preparing medical helicopters to evacuate casualties and activating the quick reaction force needed to evacuate the friendly forces from the village.
“There was so much chaos on the ground, and everybody above us had our backs completely,” said Hunter. “It was a beautiful, beautiful thing, because as scared as we all were, and as bad as the situation was – at no point did I fear for my life and neither did my brothers because overhead we have these guys in the gunship raining all kinds of hate and taking care of us completely.”
The combined actions of Hunter and the Spooky 43 aircrew proved decisive on the battlefield and demonstrated the enormous impact of AFSOC’s precision strike core mission. Precision strike provides ground forces with specialized capabilities to find, engage and assess targets. This synergy is credited for saving thousands of lives over the last 16 years of war.
"I am extremely proud of what our Airmen accomplished when they were tested on the battlefield," said Webb. "They did what I know every Airman in this command would do when facing a relentless enemy. They overcame, adapted and pushed the boundaries of possible."
There is foreign travel then there is foreign travel...
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Yep. Definitely keefe.
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Yep. Definitely keefe.
So now Keefe is creating an alternative persona, to talk about all the great things people like Keefe do.
Scoop really is a weird place.
Maybe I should create an alternative persona talking about how awesome I am, and that I'm actually not the least bit forgetful...but then I'd probably forget the login info for that persona.
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I like Keefe's stories...……...Makes me thankful for those efforts to protect us.
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Keefe is one of the most intelligent, upstanding, and accomplished men one could ever hope to touch in life. Proud and honored to be able to call him a friend.
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if any of you had the good fortunes of meeting this true warrior, you would be meeting one great "mofo" !!
remember, it ain't bragging if you can or did do it. this guy put his life on the line for us numerous times. i know he does not need the accolades, but he often states a few of his accomplishments just to rile a few of you up.
beneath all that, MU should be proud to have had this dude pass underneath the olin engineering underpass, studied in the cubicles of memorial library(before fr. raynor memorial), knelt in the pews of gesu, raised a mug in the brooks memorial mugrack, and peed into the ice at the avalanche bar...i better stop there before i get him into trouble, eyn'a?
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Keefe?
Not Keefe... Definitely not Keefe!
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Keefe is one of the most intelligent, upstanding, and accomplished men one could ever hope to touch in life. Proud and honored to be able to call him a friend.
wear r u touching himm, dock?
Seriously, though ... Crash is A-OK with me. More than A-OK ... got to visit with him in Seattle a couple of years back and enjoyed our visit immensely.
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Keefe is one of the most intelligent, upstanding, and accomplished men one could ever hope to touch in life. Proud and honored to be able to call him a friend.
No disagreements there, except I can't call him friend. I was going to try to meet up with him twice when I was in his area, but unfortunately, business kept me busy.
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No disagreements there, except I can't call him friend. I was going to try to meet up with him twice when I was in his area, but unfortunately, business kept me busy.
Happy to buy you a beer when you are in the area. Frankly, I consider anyone who shared the Marquette experience to be a bud.
Much to theBabyDavid's mother's chagrin I seem to know a lot of watering holes in a lot of places.
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4ever said it perfectly. Feel very fortunate to have keefe as a friend. Looking forward to our next summit together.
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Yep. Definitely keefe.
Look no further than the Travel Help thread. Clearly from someone who spent many years as Warthog ballast.
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Look no further than the Travel Help thread. Clearly from someone who spent many years as Warthog ballast.
This might be the most amusing iteration of our Air Farce amigo. Well played, well played.
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This might be the most amusing iteration of our Air Farce amigo. Well played, well played.
I try, Zig. I try.
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The ride home from NMD....
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Be careful, Real. Nice to meet you yesterday! Glad we got a win to make the drive a bit more worthwhile.
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The ride home from NMD....
Drive safe...
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Drive safe...
Thanks. Made it home fine.
We went through Osseo just before a 40 car pileup. You can see it on Facebook. There were some maniacs on the road...both cars and semis.
https://www.fox9.com/news/388676673-video
There was a spot where we were doing 30. A pickup passed us at about 50 into a whiteout caused by the semi infront of us in the right lane about 200 yards ahead. Another semi came up on the left easily at 65 and was going to rear end the pickup that just passed us. The semi infront of us merged into the left lane to protect the pickup that was surely going to get rear ended. The speeding semi slowed down enough to avoid the truck that switched lanes to block it. I'm positive the pickup would have otherwise been rear ended.
Man, there are some stupid, stupid people. The drive took us 90 extra minutes, but we are alive.
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Glad you made it home Brother Chili. LBK doesn’t look so bad huh?
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Glad you made it home Brother Chili. LBK doesn’t look so bad huh?
Some of the blue hairs in the Publix parking lot in LBK are just as dangerous.
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We went through Osseo
Home of Norske Nook.
I trust you got off I 94 and slammed into the Nook for some lefse followed up by their world famous pie?
You know, nothing takes the edge off a 40 car pile up like a slice of hot steaming pie. Better yet, you would have been there for their evening pie which is far more succulent than the day shift's offering.
The thing about the Nook is that they begin by hand rolling the dough. What better way to start an experience which ends with hot pie in your mouth?
Cherry or Apple, Chili?
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Home of Norske Nook.
I trust you got off I 94 and slammed into the Nook for some lefse followed up by their world famous pie?
You know, nothing takes the edge off a 40 car pile up like a slice of hot steaming pie. Better yet, you would have been there for their evening pie which is far more succulent than the day shift's offering.
The thing about the Nook is that they begin by hand rolling the dough. What better way to start an experience which ends with hot pie in your mouth?
Cherry or Apple, Chili?
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/IB1i/perkins-burger-fries-and-pie-combo-bring-the-pie-first
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https://www.ispot.tv/ad/IB1i/perkins-burger-fries-and-pie-combo-bring-the-pie-first
Perkins Pie vs The Nook Pie?
How you say...Plymouth vs Ferrari?
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Perkins Pie vs The Nook Pie?
How you say...Plymouth vs Ferrari?
You may have confused Osseo, MI for Osseo, WI. Good thing you weren't a navigator?
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You may have confused Osseo, MI for Osseo, WI. Good thing you weren't a navigator?
There is an Osseo in MI?
Osseo must mean small, cold, out of the way place in some language.
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Combat
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Osseo, Mi is 15 miles ESE from Coldwater, 5 miles SE from Hillsdale.
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Osseo, Mi is 15 miles ESE from Coldwater, 5 miles SE from Hillsdale.
Is that before or after Climax?
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My daughter and her husband live in Seattle. They have had more snow the last 2 weeks than they had in the first 10 years they lived there combined.
City is mostly closed down, she says. Her MU club even canceled their NMD viewing party!
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We are getting maybe 2 inches of snow today. It is going to warm up and melt by the weekend. Today will be the first time I've actually had to shovel this winter.
Usually I've shoveled about a half dozen times by now at least. Strange winter. The one bitter cold streak a few weeks back was fortunately without precipitation.
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Bought an offbrand snowblower a few years ago. Regretted it almost right away. 3 service calls in 4 years, and the one clean year it was in storage.
Went out this year and bought a big Toro. 3 uses and the damned thing wont start today. Super irritated.
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Is that before or after Climax?
ESE.
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We are getting maybe 2 inches of snow today. It is going to warm up and melt by the weekend. Today will be the first time I've actually had to shovel this winter.
Usually I've shoveled about a half dozen times by now at least. Strange winter. The one bitter cold streak a few weeks back was fortunately without precipitation.
Ditto for me.
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Windchills in So Cal below freezing last night and tonight. Snowing in Malibu, Rancho Cucamonga, the valley, etc. Snow level dropped to 1000 feet.
Fun times
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Global warming, eh?
Ban dis guy^^^^^^
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The pictures out of Vegas these past couple days are crazy. SEVERAL inches out at Red Rock. I hope my furnace is keeping up!
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The pictures out of Vegas these past couple days are crazy. SEVERAL inches out at Red Rock. I hope my furnace is keeping up!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/calabasas-snow-rare-snowfall-strikes-los-angeles-two-freeways-close-due-to-weather-2019-02-21/
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Perkins Pie vs The Nook Pie?
How you say...Plymouth vs Ferrari?
Maybe not as cut and dry as you'd think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Superbird
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Bought an offbrand snowblower a few years ago. Regretted it almost right away. 3 service calls in 4 years, and the one clean year it was in storage.
Went out this year and bought a big Toro. 3 uses and the damned thing wont start today. Super irritated.
I had a Toro snowblower. It was the worst piece of crap I have ever owned. Just garbage, right from the start.
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I had a Toro snowblower. It was the worst piece of crap I have ever owned. Just garbage, right from the start.
WTF does Toro know about clearing snow? They don't even go outside in Minnesota during the winter, they've got skywalks and subways all over the place. JayBee has to take 50,000 IU of Vitamin D every few hours just to stave off the rickets... the only fresh oxygen he's getting is on DirecTV channel 251... you could balance the white levels on your iPhone camera with his forehead... he watches The Shining and thinks that Jack guy really knows how to keep his composure.
If you want the very best in snow throwing technology, you go with the good ol' God-(not snow)-fearing Wisconsin company, not some snow baby Minnesota cooperative.
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Nasty driving conditions today in the Fox Valley. 100 vehicle pile up near Neenah. One death. Keep safe!
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Nasty driving conditions today in the Fox Valley. 100 vehicle pile up near Neenah. One death. Keep safe!
Pretty ugly here in SE MN too. I-90 was closed for several hours overnight, and lots of other major highways have been closed today. Lots of snowfall records have been broken across the state....
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Coldest February on record (132 years). Never hit 70 one time in the month
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-cold-february-20190228-story.html
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as long as the wind blows, the sun shines and the cows stop flatulating the days will all become southern california eyn'a?
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Coldest February on record (132 years). Never hit 70 one time in the month
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-cold-february-20190228-story.html
We were in Commerce and Long Beach last month. Of course everyone (coming in from Boston, Seattle, UK, and NYC) packed for 70 degrees and sunshine. It was in the 30's with cold wind and rain.
What is hilarious is that we had originally planned on going to Minneapolis but everyone screamed about the cold weather. In the event it was essentially the same weather in LA. And frankly, LA sucks compared with Minneapolis.
Damn that Al Gore. Damn that man for inventing global warming!