Monday - February 05, 2007

Are You Chillin’?

Bunch of wimps and wussies out there this week crying over cold toes. Read what Bill Abeling in Bismark, North Dakota had to say in the last sentence below. Sheesh! You’d think you folks had never seen Winter before. Maybe you’ve bought in to all this Glow-Bull Warming shit and thought you’d be able to cruise through January and February with temps never dropping lower than room temperature, eh? WRONG!

I just stuck my nose out the front door and was instantly attacked by Jack Frost. I barely escaped with nose intact. Well, I got news for Ol’ Jack. I’ve got a goose-down filled parka with a real fur hood (suck it, PETA), thick leather gloves, thermal underwear and an old worn out pair of combat boots - which should enable me to dash through the 15 feet through the snow to my 4WD Jeep, crank ‘er up, turn on the heater and dash back inside the house before Jack penetrates my defense. HA! So much for Winter ...

Arctic Blast Shuts Down Schools, Trains, Roads
_{(CNN) - 1:19 p.m. EST, February 5, 2007}

A bone-chilling Arctic cold wave with temperatures as low as 38 below zero shut down schools for thousands of youngsters Monday, halted some Amtrak service and put car batteries on the disabled list from the northern Plains across the Great Lakes. The cold was accompanied by snow that was measured in feet in parts of upstate New York.

“Anybody in their right mind wouldn’t want to be out in weather like this,” Lawrence Wiley, 57, said at the Drop Inn Center homeless shelter where he has been living in Cincinnati. Monday lows in the area were in the single digits.

With temperatures near zero and a wind chill of 25 below, school districts across Ohio canceled classes. “We have a lot of kids that walk to school. We didn’t think it was worth the risk,” Sandusky City Schools Superintendent Bill Pahl said. (Calculate your wind chill)

With a temperature of 12 below zero and wind chill of 31 below, Wisconsin’s largest school district, Milwaukee Public Schools, also shut down, idling some 90,000 children. In upstate New York, 34,000 kids got the day off in Rochester because of near-zero temperatures. Schools also closed in parts of Michigan.

Even in Minnesota, where February cold is the norm and people are accustomed to coping, some charter schools closed. The temperature plunged to 38 below zero Monday morning at Hallock in northwestern Minnesota, and to 30 below at International Falls, the weather service said.

Veterinarian Wade Himes wasn’t too concerned as he ate breakfast at the Shorelunch Cafe in International Falls. “We get up and go to work, and people come and see us. I don’t think anything changes that much. [You] just dress warm,” said Himes, 69.

Grand Forks, North Dakota, also registered 30 below. “For this time of year, this isn’t that unusual, as far as temperatures go,” said weather service meteorologist Bill Abeling in Bismarck, North Dakota. “To get record temperatures this time of year in North Dakota, you’ve got to delve down in the 40-below region, so we’re not even close.”

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Posted by The Skipper     on 02/05/2007 at 01:46 PM   
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