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JayinNY

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As iv heard said "sell fear, and they will consume".I never
watch the news, world or local, but my wife had it on when I
got back from chores tonight and there hyping the heck out
of this cold snap, the polar freeze there calling it ect. gee I
don't ever in my life remember it being this cold before???
Must be the media hypes it for all the idiots that don't work
outside in the cold! They said 1/3 of the country is under this
Icey grip, oooooooo, I'm scared. Anybody else see this kind
of thing on the news in there area? Were at 0 right now, but
my house is at 72, I love my wood stoves! Lol, keep warm
everyone..
 
What shocks the pizz out of me is that I can remember being a kid in the 80s and it never went above 0F for a month at a time, and people now think that this is bad. I remember dating my wife and running the engine with the heat on while were parked. (you can guess what we were doing)
 
Hype sells.

News isn't about news any more, it's about the most compelling 5 second snippet that can be said.

Does anyone watch the Weather Channel with a straight face any more? I remember when they actually talked about weather from time to time, and told you useful stuff.

--->Paul
 
I remember cleanning out a manure pen wehen it was minus 5 for a high, they was the warm part of the 2 week period. On the Farmall H, narrow front.

Guess my memories aren't as good as yours......

I did walk to the country school a few times, but it was only uphill one way, I don't want to exadurate.

--->Paul
 
What weather channel? I used to tune in to it a dozen times a day. I can not tell you the last time I have tuned it in.
 
Ya'll might want to move to Southern Nevada where I'm at: Temps in the 50's, SUNNY, WARM, but the nights get down into the low 20's .
 
Yep.....we have the woodstove rockin and rollin too.....have not burnt one gallon of fuel in the furnace this year so far......and likely will stay that way.....next winter will probably be different though.....being that our little girl will be here by then......have to keep the house at a constant warm temp I suppose.....but that will be ok!
 
I agree with u, that's exactly what I ment, below 0 for a month. Now it's 5 days, of something we never seen before, were all doomed!
 
Yep,they have consultants telling them to spread fear so folks will keep tuning in to see how bad it's gonna get. That's straight from a cheif meterologist on a local TV channel who retired because he said he couldn't do what they wanted him to do anymore.

We get a small weekly local paper. They print stories from 125-100-75 and 50 years ago. In the 125 year old news this week,they were telling about a cold snap and major storm all the way from the Dakotas and Montana to Texas. Said there were many reports of death and hardship,lack of food and fuel.
They were telling just last night too,that it was the coldest daytime high since February 2007. As it happens,I remember that like it was yesterday. I trade off chores with another guy now and then and he had to take a weekend off for his daughters wedding. He has calves out in hutches and I think I still have nerve damage from feeding those danged calves for two days.
 
Congrats. I love being a dad, my daughter is 16 months already, i don't know were the time went! Amen brother, no oil burned here either.
 
About 20 years ago a neighbor and I did chores together cause it was so cold we were afraid to go out by ourselves. Did chores for another neighbor who was in Hawaii as well. One stayed in the pickup and kept warm for 10 minutes and we would trade off. -30 and the wind was howling. Took us all day just to get water thawed out and livestock fed. Did this for 3 days in a row.
 
The Minneapolis news clowns were at again here also. Really had to chuckle when they did a little piece on how HAAARRD it is to work in this bitter "all of -3F daytime temp"
Interviewed a girl at the McDonalds drive through window, a girl delivering pizza in downtown Minneapolis and a guy bringing in carts at Walmart! Oh the hell those folk went through!
Appherently, the idiots couldn"t find an construction worker, lineman, anybody! I'm sure you"d never convince them someone ACTUALLY had to stay out ALL day.
 
its not that cold here. running about 20 degrees. wood stove and pellet stoves are going well. house is about 76 degrees. went for lunch today with the wife and kids. they decided to wash concrete at 20 degrees. needless to say it was freezing instantly and my kids fell down. they were so upset called the ambulance and all. i told em it was ok. the guy that did it was fired on the spot. we walked away. glad no one else was hurt.
 
I think I remember that winter too. Was milking cows and had to haul manure every day. Did it somehow. I had some holstein bred heifers for sale and some old guy with COPD came to look at them. They were right out here east of the house,but I still had to get him right from his car to my 4 wheel drive pickup and drive him out to look at them. The way he was gasping and wheezing in the cold air,I honestly was afraid he was gonna die right there in the pickup.
 
Dr.Walt,

No thanks.I don't like being in a oven in the summer time.Think of your summer as our winter except you use the AC instead of furnace.

And don't give me that dry heat stuff.

Vito
 
Usually the third week of January is the coldest of the winter in our area.I would say it is right on cue.Next week we will be back around 40 for a couple of days.

The weather men are a bunch of drama queens.Some are queens! LOL

Vito
 
If they dont sensationalize it , you wont keep switching back to see the next KILLER storm... agree have seen it a lot colder in late 60's and early 70's, if it was to cold and school got canceled would go to my grandpas farm, help with chores, then go rabbit hunting and grandma would have a big pot of soup and pan of cornbread waiting!!!!
 
Lol, that's funny Vito, I hate the hot humid weather we have some summers, 2012 was one of them!
 
You are behind the times. they had to change it to "Climate change", otherwise there was no way to explain their way out of cold snaps. Now they got it covered either way. Hot or cold, it's all climate change and it's all our fault.

We need to pay more for everything and be taxed 2,000% on electricity and gasoline.

Gene
 
Jay
No heating oil burned here either, BUT I have pushed a lot of wood through the boiler and fireplace today. It got up to 5F in the bright sun today, but wind chill was -10. Now as I post it is -4 with no wind chill. I just loaded the boiler and fireplace and heading for bed.
Loren, the Acg.
 
Went out for coffee club this morning, Mom started to hand me 'my warm coat'. I told her it was the wrong one, and put it back. Then I grabbed my Carhart. She still thinks the other one was warmer.....
 
The coldest I remember was the end of 82 and start of 83. Seems like it got to minus 20 at night and 0 in the daytime for two weeks. Could not handle that now.
 
Here in NWIA we've had extreme cold spells that have been a good 20 degrees colder on previous years than we have this season. We've been below zero only a hand full of times so far. Lowest I've seen is -10 and that was only two nights. I remember winters where it felt like a heat wave when the temp finally warmed up to 0. The ice fishermen haven't been able to drive pickups on the lakes yet and it's late January. I talked to a fella who ice fished last week and the ice was only 10" thick and it should be 16"-18". It will be thicker after this spell. Jim
 
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(quoted from post at 16:56:00 01/23/13) As iv heard said "sell fear, and they will consume".I never
watch the news, world or local, but my wife had it on when I
got back from chores tonight and there hyping the heck out
of this cold snap, the polar freeze there calling it ect. gee I
don't ever in my life remember it being this cold before???
Must be the media hypes it for all the idiots that don't work
outside in the cold! They said 1/3 of the country is under this
Icey grip, oooooooo, I'm scared. Anybody else see this kind
of thing on the news in there area? Were at 0 right now, but
my house is at 72, I love my wood stoves! Lol, keep warm
everyone..
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I think it was Jan of 02 that I bought a tractor off Ebay from a shyster in Winnipeg and had to get up there to get it (fortunately there was A tractor there when I got there). Weather turned bad when I got to Fargo, but I still had to deliver a tractor to the "bowels of the earth" just south of there. By the time I got to the Canadian border it was -40 (C or F, take your pick as they are the same at that temp). Couldn't hardly fuel up the diesel as the hose at the pump felt like it was going to snap off....anyway, wound up dragging the tractor into a heated garage to get it to run, then off for home. Never shut the Dodge off for 3 days.....
 
Hi
They should come up here to Manitoba Canada and film and interview me this week, Im off for the 3rd day tomorrow fixing dead Masseys for a guy in a non heated 70x70 shop. It's been - 20-25oc for the last 2 days in there.
working with gloves off sometimes with parts and wrenches sticking to your hands is not fun. they are calling for -40 with wind chill again tomorrow for the second time this week. I'm hoping I don't have to be outside the shop, or truck for a flat or anything too long tomorrow.
Regards Robert
 
Our first winter on the farm here in MN dad and I were grinding grain just before dark. Just as we finished the tractor died. I had school the next morning so dad did chores then looked at the tractor. It was about +20F at the time. We didn't have a shop so we pulled it around by the back door after I got home from school. Then next morning a Sat, it was -30F and dad and I started to pull the tractor down as dad had found that we broke a timing gear. He's work outside for about 10 minutes then it was my turn. Late in the after noon we had it down far enough to know what parts to order. Glad it was a small AC CA. Dad got the parts ordered on Monday and he kept me home from school to help put it back together....still in the -20 to -30F range. Got it together and running late in the afternoon. Next morning it was +20F again. Use to get -30F here for a week or two at a time 2-3 times a winter. THen right after I retired from the Army we had the -60F stuff for a few days. The govenor shut down all schools in the state because of the cold. Been -20F here a couple of overnight lows this winter but haven't seen -30 in a while.

Rick
 
I spent a lot of winters in upstate NY and then Michigan, 30-40 years ago.. These days of 1O*F are like spring used to be. I am glad it does not get cold like it did 40 years ago, but wonder what the long term result of warmer winters will be? Hope it is just part of a normal cycle, but beginning to wonder.
 
Coldest I remember was in February '83. We were watching the noon news and they said tomorrows high would be 25 below. We were looking forward to it as it meant it would be warming up 14 degrees. I never complained about it being to hot in the summers after that.
 
If it got to -40 below, then in summer + 97 hot and humid, I'd be drooling for -40 below. I HATE the heat! Lol
 
The ice must not be very thick yet, because a couple city dudes dropped a ready-mix truck thru the ice on Lake Winnebago here in Wisconsin a couple days ago. They got about a mile out when the truck fell thru.

Turns out they wanted to pour a basement for the fish house of their dreams.

LA in WI
 
Our local newspaper had a little story about that same 125 year old ordeal. Only one report of someone freezing to death. Two neighboring counties had 5 deaths each.
 
It was supposed to be -25F here last nite, it's -11F at Ft Drum and my thermometer reads a little below 0F, Drum is surely more accurate. It's just not that cold right now. I've worked through -50F and months where it never got above 0F for the high. It's no fun. Chores last might took me 2 hours instead of 45 minutes, got some frozen pipes under the baseboards, nothing real serious.
 
(quoted from post at 01:17:20 01/24/13) I remember jan or feb 1983. School was called off for 2 days cuz of the bitter cold.
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I remeber that cold snap very well...I was still in Aberdeen and we had a record 6 days without ever getting above zero and 60 days without getting above freezing. During the coldest week I had to take the battery out of my car at night and put it in the basement. Ran Mobil 1 oil and it was still hard turnning over....
 
We had another streak like that in Jan 94. Mon-Fri it stayed under -5 for the high. I filled in at a repair shop that week. The guy was swamped with no-start cars. I had a 85 Chev diesel. It ran for 68 hrs during one stretch.
 
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