Heads Up on Artic Blast Early Next Week

[roamer_1]

I didn't know that (the specific temperatures). So I assume that a buried propane tank pretty much works anywhere where there is civilization.

Yes. Here, anyway. Though there are plenty here that ain't buried. The hillbillies bury en.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Might want to add a scarf. 

[bigheadfred]

Might want to add a scarf. 

He scarfed down that beer well enough.

[Right_in_Virginia]

He scarfed down that beer well enough.

That he did.   

[Gefn]

its ccoooooooollllld outside

[Right_in_Virginia]

LOL - going to an event during a blizzard to scream the planet is on fire is peak idiot.(Video)

https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1746266356935237782

[Polly Ticks]

Had a good friend whose sister and her children were dragged by her husband to Ohio just in time for the worst winter in a very long time, as a matter of fact I think they called the blizzard of 1978 the storm of the century. Anyway it also blew up their marriage, you just don't take a SoCal girl into a situation like that and expect her to adapt.

That brought back memories of a sort.  I was young enough during the '78 blizzard to think it all just great fun and a wonderful LOOOOOOOOONG school break.

However, in January 1994, I had been married about 6 weeks. The weathermen were predicting a wintry mix followed by a few inches of snow. The wintry mix came through well enough and dropped a solid layer of ice over everything, and then we had an episode of thundersnow overnight that dropped 15-18 inches of snow in the metro area and 20 inches at my house just a little farther out, followed by temperatures in the 20 below range for a few days. Pretty much the entire city of Louisville shut down for most of a week.  I'm the "let's stay in and watch movies and stay safe and warm" sort, and my husband was the "let's drive around and see how crazy it is everywhere" sort.  It was a trial by fire .... errrrr, snow .... but our fledgling marriage managed to survive.

[libertybele]

its ccoooooooollllld outside

Indeed it is!!

[Cyber Liberty]

I  would like to take a moment here....

We talk a lot about the weather here, and we drop a lot of jests about how hot or cold we have it.  I've gotten my share in! 

We are seeing a brutal cold coming in in most of the country right now and it has us all so worried about our dear friends. Worried enough to all of us to express prayers and love to keep us all safe.

Some of us are lucky because we are in the small corner of our country that is spared from the cold temperatures. From those of us, I want to offer Prayers for my TBR family in the teeth of this.  I am so lucky.   We joke at how I get such high temperatures (120F), but I love the heat!  I would never trade.  That said, I am in fear for my dear friends that they be spared the wrath!

May God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost spare us all in this.  May all of us see each other in the week ahead.

Amen!

[libertybele]

I  would like to take a moment here....

We talk a lot about the weather here, and we drop a lot of jests about how hot or cold we have it.  I've gotten my share in! 

We are seeing a brutal cold coming in in most of the country right now and it has us all so worried about our dear friends. Worried enough to all of us to express prayers and love to keep us all safe.

Some of us are lucky because we are in the small corner of our country that is spared from the cold temperatures. From those of us, I want to offer Prayers for my TBR family in the teeth of this.  I am so lucky.   We joke at how I get such high temperatures (120F), but I love the heat!  I would never trade.  That said, I am in fear for my dear friends that they be spared the wrath!

May God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost spare us all in this.  May all of us see each other in the week ahead.

Amen!

Amen.

[Hoodat]

Supposed to be getting close to zero here in the Heart of Dixie.  I just pulled the grill off the porch and into the living room in case we lose power.  Propane is low, but I got plenty of charcoal and lighter fluid.

[240B]

Supposed to be getting close to zero here in the Heart of Dixie.  I just pulled the grill off the porch and into the living room in case we lose power.  Propane is low, but I got plenty of charcoal and lighter fluid.

@Hoodat

Watch out for carbon monoxide. That stuff will kill you and you will not see or smell anything. Suddenly, out of nowhere, you're dead.

Yep, here we go. For me, it is hitting tonight and through next week. It is odd to wake up and get a temperature in the morning and then see the temp go down during the day. The day is 'supposed' to warm up, not get colder.

[corbe]

[libertybele]

@Hoodat

Watch out for carbon monoxide. That stuff will kill you and you will not see or smell anything. Suddenly, out of nowhere, you're dead.

Seriously.

[roamer_1]

Supposed to be getting close to zero here in the Heart of Dixie.  I just pulled the grill off the porch and into the living room in case we lose power.  Propane is low, but I got plenty of charcoal and lighter fluid.

WOO! Don't forget the cheddar jalapeno dogs..

[Hoodat]

WOO! Don't forget the cheddar jalapeno dogs..

Copy that.

[mountaineer]

Be glad you're not in the Peoples' Republic of Canuckistan:

Rolling blackouts for Alberta tonught. The province is now feeling the full effect of Rachel Notley prematurely shutting down our coal plants. Wind and Solar at ZERO, while Natural Gas is barely keeping the lights on, literally.

https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1746349920188002442

[Gefn]

https://youtu.be/Hvtc9BWahMQ


hope that helps people stay warm. it's so cold - and now I have that song by the Stones stuck in my head.

[240B]

The Independent, 2000:
This was 24 years ago.

Snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries … Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community … According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event". "Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.

Stand by for icy blasts and heavy snow

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/children-just-arent-going-to-know-what-snow-is/news-story/5a16c85680b7cc94f345240a727fb09d

Do you get it? Everybody understands? The Global Warming freaks say no more cold weather, ever. And no more snow.

[Hoodat]

Be glad you're not in the Peoples' Republic of Canuckistan:

Rolling blackouts for Alberta tonught. The province is now feeling the full effect of Rachel Notley prematurely shutting down our coal plants. Wind and Solar at ZERO, while Natural Gas is barely keeping the lights on, literally.

This showcases why elections matter.  While in power in Alberta for only four years out of the last half century, Canadian leftists were able to inflict such a severe and long-lasting impact on the average Albertan.  Notley should be given hard prison time for any Albertan who freezes to death because of rolling blackouts.

[Smokin Joe]

@Hoodat

Watch out for carbon monoxide. That stuff will kill you and you will not see or smell anything. Suddenly, out of nowhere, you're dead.

Yep, here we go. For me, it is hitting tonight and through next week. It is odd to wake up and get a temperature in the morning and then see the temp go down during the day. The day is 'supposed' to warm up, not get colder.

Very seriously. Nothing to mess with, I know of a young lady who died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning just using a Coleman Lantern to warm her tent--in Sturgis one August.

Burning charcoal can be a killer, and it produces high levels of CO.
Propane, burned with a catalytic heater, produces less, but ventilation is needed to keep levels of CO from becoming dangerous. (Ice fishermen using tents or 'ice houses' just keep the temp warm enough for their cold weather gear to be comfortable, with constant ventilation.)
 

The EPA recommends that indoor CO levels should not exceed 9 parts per million (ppm) for more than 8 hours, or 35 ppm for more than 1 hour.

[Smokin Joe]

Thirty one below in the North Dakota banana belt this morning, same yesterday, only with wind (-61 wind chill yesterday). Posters are up for a chap who is missing and has been for a few days, although if he isn't somewhere warm, I don't hold out much hope for him, although God has  worked miracles before.

It's Winter.

[roamer_1]

Thirty one below in the North Dakota banana belt this morning, same yesterday, only with wind (-61 wind chill yesterday). Posters are up for a chap who is missing and has been for a few days, although if he isn't somewhere warm, I don't hold out much hope for him, although God has  worked miracles before.

It's Winter.

It's pushing out over here... Only got -11 or so last night, and at -2 right now... by the end of the week back in the 30s...

[Free Vulcan]

-19 in the Florida of Iowa this a.m. We were actually colder than NE IA in the little cold pocket here.

People hate it, but this kind of cold kills things you don't want, and keeps others from migrating up here, like fire ants. Keep them evil things down there.

[Smokin Joe]

-19 in the Florida of Iowa this a.m. We were actually colder than NE IA in the little cold pocket here.

People hate it, but this kind of cold kills things you don't want, and keeps others from migrating up here, like fire ants. Keep them evil things down there.

Yep. Spending a couple weeks with the Folks, where I grew up, I was appalled at the rate of decay of wood and steel. The former succumbs to a remarkable assortment of fungi and insects we don't have here in North Dakota. Any papers from my youth and books are generally placed in cold storage for a winter or two before being brought in the house, just to assure the death of all those nasty little critters that would doom my library to destruction or total fumigation.

The latter is destroyed thanks to high humidity and salt in the air...again, at an appalling rate.