Beausoir
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:19 PM
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School cancelled due to extreme cold. Minus 30 actual temp. Windchills minus 50. |
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A little frost on our pumpkins here in MN.
This winter will never end.
They will find us all frozen in place.
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:21 PM
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I like the cold and all but damn... I don't think I could handle that.
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Beausoir
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:24 PM
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2. Things don't work when it gets this cold. Garage doors, furnaces, cars, etc. |
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My dogs won't even venture outside for a minute. They have been holding it all day.
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myrna minx
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:30 PM
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3. Seriously. The new Pompeii will be Ely or Uptown. |
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When. Will. This. Winter. End.
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Beausoir
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:31 PM
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4. No kidding..and don't forget Embarass, MN. They are definitely in the running. |
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Coldest winter I can remember since 1976.
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myrna minx
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:38 PM
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7. I walk to work, but my saintly BIL refuses to allow me to do so on these horrid days. |
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Edited on Tue Feb-19-08 10:41 PM by myrna minx
He drives across minneapolis to pick me up and drive me just a few blocks. One walk home during one cold snap, I felt like I was in a Jack London novel. I was just going to take a nap in a snow bank for a "little while". I can't decide what's worse. Getting nailed with snow like Wisconsin or enduring our bitterly cold days.
On edit: We Minnesotans are hearty stock and just take the weather we get, but sheesh, everyone is ready for this to be done.
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Beausoir
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:42 PM
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9. Doesn't this winter seem really extra special cold? Or is it just me? |
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I gotta admit, I do love the extremes of the weather, but this one is really wearing me down.
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:47 PM
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13. It really isn't, compared to some we used to have. |
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But it's colder than it's been in the last 9-10 years. I do remember some much, much colder winters in the '70s.
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myrna minx
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:46 PM
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10. I seem to recall one winter in the late 90's where we had negatives for nearly a month, |
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but I agree, this one's a toughie. At least the sun is out and the days are getting longer, but we still have the big snow dump of March to look forward to. Ha.
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The Velveteen Ocelot
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:32 PM
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5. There's a little frost on my arse here in MN. |
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Was just outside running an electric cord out to my car to plug it in so the damn thing starts tomorrow morning. The wind chill is right brisk.
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:36 PM
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6. I hate that part..the block heater. When it's this cold, you gotta get up at 3am and turn it over |
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and let it run for a few minutes.
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The Velveteen Ocelot
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:41 PM
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8. This is a headbolt heater, I can just leave it. |
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No way in frozen hell am I going to haul myself out of bed and start the car at 3:00 a.m. when it's -17. Not gonna happen.
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:46 PM
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11. That's awful!! I feel for you. |
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We have a windchill advisory, but nothing that bad. Low of 4 below with windchills around 25 below tonight. But I'll think of you and refrain from bitching! :hug:
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Tue Feb-19-08 10:47 PM
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that is to cold......
come here to NJ
we have had a balmy winter.....
please stay safe... that is nothing to fool with.......
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