So, lets talk weather....

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Wow. Look at the cold air behind the front
 
dtfeld said:
Amen. Was at the boat last night checking up on the bilge heaters, adding a couple heat lamps, turned the water off and turned all the thermostats on heat.

Of course that was after I took a nice afternoon ride having the lake to myself.
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Headed over to mine this afternoon. I have a spare bilge heater going in and just to check one last time. Water off and drained and heat in the cabin is already on.

We are not used to 80 hours of below freezing temps here especially with wind chills below 0*.

Bennett
 
dtfeld said:
For those that remember the Blizzard of '77
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Remember it well, had my nearly new first new car, 76 Olds Cutlass S, left work at 3pm, made it 5 miles from home to my uncle ‘s house, we put it in his garage, I walked rest of the way home 5 miles in a blizzard. Couldn’t get back to get my car for 4 or 5 days. Not good times.
 
dtfeld said:
For those that remember the Blizzard of '77, this is a picture (taken from a Super 8mm film reel) of my dad, older brother (red hat) and me (blue hat) standing on the frozen Ohio River. I think this was mid January 1977 in Cincinnati Oh. Behind us is the Roebling suspension bridge's south landing into Covington Ky, and a line of people walking across the river. My mom is likely behind the camera, and my two younger brothers are running around somewhere.

I'm over cold like that. Anybody got a good agent down in the Keys?

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I've been to that spot before, much warmer though :) Your older bother was like "no problem, bring it on!"
 
bbwhitejr said:
Headed over to mine this afternoon. I have a spare bilge heater going in and just to check one last time. Water off and drained and heat in the cabin is already on.

We are not used to 80 hours of below freezing temps here especially with wind chills below 0*.

Bennett
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I am at Clarks Hill Lake, GA. Our boat has been in the shop for 3 weeks waiting to have the annual maintenance done. I am praying that they have taken precautions.
 
Still waiting for the ferocious winds and blizzard like conditions we were promised about 24 hours ago. :( Other than a few gusts, it’s sunny and clear, but cold.
 
OllieC said:
Still waiting for the ferocious winds and blizzard like conditions we were promised about 24 hours ago. :( Other than a few gusts, it’s sunny and clear, but cold.
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Nothing unusual over here, just another winter day...grey sky, -15F, breezy, a couple inches of snow maybe today. Everythings gotta be dramatized, it's because of climate change ya know, so now everything is a 'storm of the century' or 'cyclone bomb' or some other bullshit.

The term bomb is used a lot, there's climate bombs, carbon bombs, fossil bombs...lots of bombs get talked about, people might listen, do what they're told if you scare the shit out of them, get them worrying.
 
Woody said:
Nothing unusual over here, just another winter day...grey sky, -15F, breezy, a couple inches of snow maybe today. Everythings gotta be dramatized, it's because of climate change ya know, so now everything is a 'storm of the century' or 'cyclone bomb' or some other bullshit.

The term bomb is used a lot, there's climate bombs, carbon bombs, fossil bombs...lots of bombs get talked about, people might listen, do what they're told if you scare the shit out of them, get them worrying.
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I was just talking to my wife about that yesterday after hearing the term bomb used multiple times to describe the current weather front.
I grew up in the Phoenix, AZ area. Every summer we had some large dust storms, they're now called haboobs.
Anything to sensationalize the weather to scare people.
 
It's nasty enough here at the tip of Michigan's lower peninsula at the moment. Certainly not the storm of the century so far but this is definitely winter. Blowing snow and 20 degrees. Probably about 8" total at this point
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