Baby It Is Cold OutSide!

[autowasherfreak]

Must be pretty chilly in the basement today, went to wash a load of clothes in Missy Maytag, and it took her a minute or two to get up to speed. She kept saying Brrr tooooo coldddddd.

 

[circlew]

Only made it up to 20F today with the sun out. Is now 18F and has become very windy, making it bitterly cold. Tomorrow about 20F again with some snow. House I'm living in (electric baseboard heat) never got above 69F today. I can't turn on some of the units as I have things stacked in front of them. I'll be so glad to get out of here.

 

[twintubdexter]

old but toasty warm...

...it was 74 today which helped ease the pain of turning 60 on Saturday...I'd take 40 years old and 10 below zero any day

my new little dog Maggie at 4 1/2 months...my little Springer Molly died suddenly 6 weeks ago, she was only 8, I tried everything to save her

 

[launderess]

Minnesota Winters

Hey Baba Reba!

Trust the Scandinavians, Polish, Germans and other Northern Europeans to leave their countries, cross an ocean, then half a continent to settle in a place that gets as damn cold in winter as "the old country"! *LOL*

When young and watching the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" never got all the Swedish and such references. However by the time of Rose Nylund on "Golden Girls", finally got the picture. Rose did the right thing IMHO, move and retire to Florida!

 

[danemodsandy]

G-g-g-ood M-m-orning, I-i-owa...

Ten below out there right now, predicted high somewhere between five and ten above, for the third day in a row.

 

[westingman123]

Twas 3 above when I awoke, now it is a balmy 10 degrees here in old "Mizzerie". Still no snow to speak of, but we are predicted a good one. I'll believe it when I see it. Ya'll will here me whoop all the way in NYC!

 

[westingman123]

ugh

Okay, you'll HEAR me whoop in NYC. Multi-task, schmulti-task. Really, I can spell. Really!

 

[autowasherfreak]

Maggie is adorable! Sorry for the loss of Molly.

 

[iheartmaytag]

It's currently 22 degrees, expecting a high of 25 today. Thursday they are predicting -20's.

 

[whirlcool]

It got down to 26 here in Houston this morning. It is supposed to be in the upper teens friday night here. Gotta go pick up a few more pipe spigot covers.
But I have been in way below zero temps a few times so far this year. And then you have to do aircraft deicing, which takes time depending on how busy the deicers are.
If you think it's cold, how would you like to have to deice aircraft in this weather? Not only is it cold and wet, you have the wind blowing the deicer fluid back on you. I think these guys should get hazard pay for this job. Do you think the guy in the photo below is cold?

 

[danemodsandy]

What a Relief!

This being Iowa, I've been sort of dreading my first real utility bill from Mid-American, our local energy provider. They supply both natural gas and electric and combine the bill. Well, today, it came.

$119.32. For gas and electric. In Iowa. In winter. With a foot and a half of snow on the ground. With daily highs in the single digits, and lows below zero.

WOO HOO!

There was a reason I wanted a small house!

 

[toggleswitch2]

If it is not an estimated bill. ...

GREAT NEWS, Mister.

 

[hydralique]

Last Wednesday it was nasty here, all drizzly but happily cleared up New Year's Eve and has stayed nice since then. I was able to take care of a front brake job on the truck - thankfully no de-icing needed!

 

[danemodsandy]

Toggles:

Nope, not estimated. Real.

One more time - WOO HOO!

P.S.: My phone bill is also half of what it used to be in Atlanta. Me like.

 

[duetboy]

And In Hazen, AR on Monday...

...this is what we got to wake up to!

Low on Friday night/Saturday morning has been revised to +10. We'll see what actually happens.

duetboy
aka Jeff

 

[appnut]

It was 21 when I woke up this morning, the forecast had upper 20s for last night. Brr!!! Now a forecast of 14 to 17 Thur. and Fri. nights. Ugh!!! I NEED A BEAR!!!

 

[58limited]

Supposed to get down to the upper teens here on the coast this weekend - definitely unusual for this area. It hasn't gotten below 27 F in the ten years I've lived here.

 

[danemodsandy]

I Think I'm Acclimating:

I was out doing some shopping a while ago, and was thinking, "You know, it's really pretty nice and warm today, not like the past few days." And then I passed a time-and-temperature sign.

Thirteen degrees F.

 

[swestoyz]

Thirteen degrees F.

Damn, that's a heat wave!

 

[toggleswitch2]

It's all what you get used to..............

Sad as it sounds, you really can FEEL the difference between the single digits and the 20's (Farenheit) when you are outside wating for a subway. The single digits just feels like razors cutting your face, whereas in the 20's you just lose sensation in your fingers. *LOL*

I used to laugh when neighbors told me they'd don a sweater in Arizona when it went DOWN to 90*F from around 110*F.

Now I get it.

P.S are long-johns de-riguer in REALLY cold places? Double socks? Special gloves, hats and scarves.