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Magica · Go Outside

RE: We are in for a hard winter.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Magica wrote:
Syl wrote:
Vintage wrote:
No fridges to turn off,or central heating, just dressing for bed and heated bricks in the bed.

-- Edited by Vintage on Sunday 18th of December 2022 11:17:27 PM
I wonder if anyone still uses electric blankets?

I might if that bloody icy cold comes back!

hiya Vin and Sy l x

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

On the news today, parts of the US are in for temperatures of minus 50....

https://news.yahoo.com/us-braces-dangerous-blast-cold-210328341.html

Maddog · Go Outside

Syl wrote:
On the news today, parts of the US are in for temperatures of minus 50....

https://news.yahoo.com/us-braces-dangerous-blast-cold-210328341.html

The temperature is dropping like a rock here. The wind is also blowing eleventy billion mph out of the north.

In the plains (where much of Texas is located, fronts can drop the temps 60 degrees F in a day. We have dropped 20 degrees F in 3 hours..

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
On the news today, parts of the US are in for temperatures of minus 50....

https://news.yahoo.com/us-braces-dangerous-blast-cold-210328341.html
The temperature is dropping like a rock here. The wind is also blowing eleventy billion mph out of the north.

In the plains (where much of Texas is located, fronts can drop the temps 60 degrees F in a day. We have dropped 20 degrees F in 3 hours..

Keep warm Maddog....I said you would need to fish your long johns out of storage.

Maddog · Go Outside

Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
On the news today, parts of the US are in for temperatures of minus 50....

https://news.yahoo.com/us-braces-dangerous-blast-cold-210328341.html
The temperature is dropping like a rock here. The wind is also blowing eleventy billion mph out of the north.

In the plains (where much of Texas is located, fronts can drop the temps 60 degrees F in a day. We have dropped 20 degrees F in 3 hours..
Keep warm Maddog....I said you would need to fish your long johns out of storage.

It was 44F when I woke up. Now it's 12F, about 12 hours later.

Could be worse. Dalhart, TX is 1F right now. It was 61F there yesterday.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

The sudden drop must be alarming, especially for the old and vulnerable.
The coldest we have been so far this year was -8c...certainly not as cold as you are having right now.

Maddog · Go Outside

Syl wrote:
The sudden drop must be alarming, especially for the old and vulnerable.
The coldest we have been so far this year was -8c...certainly not as cold as you are having right now.

Imagine living in the plains 100 years ago. You're going about your business, and you feel the wind shift and you get a little chill. Then 3 hours later, the temps are well below freezing, the wind is howling and the snow is piling up. There is no shelter for miles. Those folks were some tough bastards, or they died..

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
The sudden drop must be alarming, especially for the old and vulnerable.
The coldest we have been so far this year was -8c...certainly not as cold as you are having right now.
Imagine living in the plains 100 years ago. You're going about your business, and you feel the wind shift and you get a little chill. Then 3 hours later, the temps are well below freezing, the wind is howling and the snow is piling up. There is no shelter for miles. Those folks were some tough bastards, or they died..

I would have died, I can't stand it when it drops below zero here...I want to hibernate.

Some people are just not made for cold weather.

Maddog · Go Outside

This guy isn't happy.

My daughter, SIL and grand daughter were in Iowa last week..

They bundled up the baby and took her outside. That freezing air hit her face and she said "no, no, no". 😁

-- Edited by Maddog on Friday 23rd of December 2022 07:16:35 PM

Jobless Oddball · Boring Twat.

Syl wrote:
On the news today, parts of the US are in for IQ's of minus 50....

https://news.yahoo.com/us-braces-dangerous-blast-cold-210328341.html

Really????????????????????????????????????????????????

Date: Dec 23 10:08 PM, 2022

Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
The sudden drop must be alarming, especially for the old and vulnerable.
The coldest we have been so far this year was -8c...certainly not as cold as you are having right now.
Imagine living in the plains 100 years ago. You're going about your business, and you feel the wind shift and you get a little chill. Then 3 hours later, the temps are well below freezing, the wind is howling and the snow is piling up. There is no shelter for miles. Those folks were some tough bastards, or they died..

Why not 200 years ago?

Tough bastards those Europeans!

Maddog · Go Outside

Jobless Oddball wrote:
Syl wrote:
On the news today, parts of the US are in for IQ's of minus 50....

https://news.yahoo.com/us-braces-dangerous-blast-cold-210328341.html
Really????????????????????????????????????????????????

😉🖕

Maddog · Go Outside

www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/us/blizzard-new-york-rescue-school-break-in/index.html

This story shows both sides of humanity, the good and the bad.

I think about 40 people died around Buffalo and they are still digging people out.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Maddog wrote:
www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/us/blizzard-new-york-rescue-school-break-in/index.html

This story shows both sides of humanity, the good and the bad.

I think about 40 people died around Buffalo and they are still digging people out.

A modern day hero, he should be commended.

This is almost unbelievable...."Withey said he went to 10 households, offering each $500 to spend the night on their floor. All of them turned him away. “I plead with them, ‘Please, please can I sleep on the floor, I’m in fear for my life,’ and they say, ‘No I’m sorry’,” he said."

Maddog · Go Outside

Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/us/blizzard-new-york-rescue-school-break-in/index.html

This story shows both sides of humanity, the good and the bad.

I think about 40 people died around Buffalo and they are still digging people out.
A modern day hero, he should be commended.

This is almost unbelievable...."Withey said he went to 10 households, offering each $500 to spend the night on their floor. All of them turned him away. “I plead with them, ‘Please, please can I sleep on the floor, I’m in fear for my life,’ and they say, ‘No I’m sorry’,” he said."

That was the "bad".

We are a fearful and paranoid people at times..

People will talk about how they care about others, but often think it's someone else's job to actually help.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

The only thing I can think of that would prevent someone helping out another in these circumstances, apart from fear and paranoia, like you say, is the fact he offered them money to spend the night.
I realise he was desperate, and money often talks, but it could have made the householders think it was some kind of a scam.

Other than that, maybe they just didn't care enough to help a stranger.

Maddog · Go Outside

Syl wrote:
The only thing I can think of that would prevent someone helping out another in these circumstances, apart from fear and paranoia, like you say, is the fact he offered them money to spend the night.
I realise he was desperate, and money often talks, but it could have made the householders think it was some kind of a scam.

Other than that, maybe they just didn't care enough to help a stranger.

He was a young, single male. I sorta get it,depending on who he asked, but from all accounts, that was the worst blizzard any of those folks have seen. How do you send someone back out into that.

But I know people who will no longer open the door to a stranger. They are that scared.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
The only thing I can think of that would prevent someone helping out another in these circumstances, apart from fear and paranoia, like you say, is the fact he offered them money to spend the night.
I realise he was desperate, and money often talks, but it could have made the householders think it was some kind of a scam.

Other than that, maybe they just didn't care enough to help a stranger.

He was a young, single male. I sorta get it,depending on who he asked, but from all accounts, that was the worst blizzard any of those folks have seen. How do you send someone back out into that.

But I know people who will no longer open the door to a stranger. They are that scared.

Same here, and some people never go out after dark.

Sad society we live in.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

12c here today...plants are budding that should still be sleeping.
The hard winter, apart from a couple of weeks in early December, so far hasn't arrived.