Comments on: Brrrrr!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:30:29 +0000

This is not what La Niña weather is supposed to be like. It should be warmer and drier this winter. The old rules no longer work.

More snow for the Sierras, more water in the summer.

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:00:24 +0000

When I’m feeling a little wanky about it dipping down to the 50’s here, I remind myself how very blessed I am by checking in at this blog…

http://arcticglass.blogspot.com/

We’re not going to get cold here this weekend. We’re going to get blasted by wet. 3 storms and gale force winds are set to hit this weekend. All weekend. Not the best time to have a convertable.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:52:00 +0000

The problem is that they are causing the place to melt buy pushing their $100/barrel oil.

I have to admit, if you want quiet, the Arctic is even more silent than the desert – just the occasionally protests from the ice sheets.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:57:43 +0000

Nope. Should be in Alaska. So the bullshit freezes and falls to the floor the moment it leaves their mouths.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:01:28 +0000

The weather is hard in the houses in my area because most still use galvanized pipe, and just about anything can cause them to break after all the years they have in the ground. After the fact insulation doesn’t seem to do much good. I rigged the toilet to seep all night to keep things flowing this morning.

By: Scorpio

Scorpio — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:20:21 +0000

Yeah, I had an incident with water refusing to reach one of the bath tubs — the pipes practically go outside. A nice hair dryer restarted the water — all the other things that use water stayed fine.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:39:10 +0000

We tied the record for the day at 23°, which isn’t as bad as my time in Fairbanks, but you had the heating equipment and clothes to deal with this in Alaska. I got lucky and found a winter coat at Sears. It was on a clearance rack, as the regular merchandise was designed for Spring. Even the fleece hooded sweatshirts were advertising how light-weight and cool they were. It’s absurd – Winter has just started in earnest and woe onto him who loses or ruins any warm clothing they own. You see a lot of military field jackets from the Waterfront mission down here because that is about the only source for warm clothing.

By: Mustang Bobby

Mustang Bobby — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:19:08 +0000

It will either kill all the fleas or drive them indoors. I’m buying an extra ration of Raid bombs.

It was 39F when I got up this morning here in Miami. Balmy compared to the panhandle, and just a reminder that we’re not technically in the tropics.

By: andante

andante — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:59:33 +0000

I am grateful for my Chihuahua body-warmers (my lap in particular stays nice & toasty), but not grateful for this stupid primary season. Or these cold temperatures.

North Carolinians, like much of the nation, will be sashaying by the TENS to polling places under balmy May sunshine for the opportunity to vote for the last man/woman standing.

The last time I checked, a registered ‘unaffiliated’ could only vote in the Republican primary. I switched from unaffiliated to Democratic, but now I am considering switching back so I can vote for the most insane Republican as I used to.

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:06:43 +0000

hey…could be worse. it’s -140 somewhere. Think of all the Siberian Tigers they need to warm their laps.