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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 8:53 am
Deb, it's the same way here. I've got friends who moved her from other parts of the country and they always get a kick out of us the rare occassions it snows. I just got back from taking the kids to school. Anywhere there was water in the gutters, there was ice. When we got to school, the yard duty aids were at the gates sending kids straight to their classes because of the cold and some ice on the blacktop. K-3 hasn't been allowed outside to play for recess or pe the past two days. 4th and 5th have only been allowed out for pe, and that only at the end of the day. We're supposed to be warming up the next few days (up to 64 by Saturday!) It has warmed up pretty quickly this morning...when I got up around 7 it was 19, it's now 28. Yankee, I'm glad you made it home without any delays. Sorry you're cold now though!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 9:27 am
Its 64 here. Am I really in Buffalo??
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 9:37 am
It's 32 in Dallas and right now we have freezing rain. I came to work early so I can leave early. Yes, we do tend to freak out a little down here because you have these drivers of less than average intelligence who just don't get it.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:00 am
We never ever have snow days and our kids are required to have outside recess to -20°. The schools are always open but at -50° it is optional whether you have to send them or not.
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:24 am
The bottom's dropping out of it as we speak. Chance of sleet and ice all day and night.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:29 am
Chili, we live in the desert, lol! It gets cold and it rains, but snow only happens once every few years out here. Heck, this summer we had temps around 117, and what 3 or 4 weeks of 100+ temps in a row. Unless you're a transplant from somewhere else, snow is pretty foreign. People don't know how to drive in it and we freeze our butts off, lol. A lot of businesses that can, will shut down and send their employees home early, and schools close at the first sign of snow actually sticking to the ground. It's rather pathetic, lol. I'm the biggest baby around when it comes to cold weather (I'm freezing if it gets under 70) but alot of people out here really have no experience with it. Those that do laugh their butts off and shake their heads at the rest of us for being so silly, lol. If I had to move somewhere it was that cold, you'd find me a solid popsicle and sobbing to go back home!
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:35 am
This was the car in our parking lot yesterday. Poor guy made the front page.
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:41 am
I"m betting he gets a brand new car out of that.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:42 am
It was really quite something to see
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:53 am
awe what happened to that poor tree
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:56 am
I saw that on the front page!! Knew it was your guy.. I'd expect his insurance co will go after the property owners for lack of maintenance of that tree. We had to walk to school in Detroit and it could get bitterly cold and girls wore skirts to school back then and at a certain age we did NOT want to wear leggings/snowsuits. LOL.. I adapted so quickly to So Cal weather at age 13 and never looked back. As soon as I got to Berkeley freshman year, I bought boots (Eskiloos!), an unbrella and tights..
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:59 am
The winds!!! It broke in half. We're owned by the Colton Company...so they can afford it 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 11:21 am
And your owner may be leasing the property.. I'm sure all the insurance companies will be doing a dance together on this one. Just lucky no one was sitting IN that car.
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 11:25 am
I just looked outside and the snow is really coming down.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 11:43 am
Juju2bigdog is innocent.
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 2:29 pm
NT, please keep that stuff in Dallas. Mississippi doesn't want any snow. We are driving to Nashville on Saturday to fly to Denver, so I'm hoping everything stays off the roads and it's clear for traveling.
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 3:16 pm
Granny, it's all moving northeast so you should be safe from this front. I made it home and it only took about 10 minutes longer than usual because of bridges. The snow is really coming down but it's not sticking very much because because we were in the 70s and 80s before last night.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 3:18 pm
NT...glad you're safe! 
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 5:31 pm
Juju2bigdog is innocent. NOT!!! Rosie, are you on her payroll? A couple of gals from Colorado were visiting SA today and said our cold was much worse than the cold they are used to having. Our winds have died down to 14 mph and the temp is now 41º and falling. There is already snow in the hill country 
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 5:33 pm
Grace, when I saw the new messages, I came running in here to ask how much Juju2bigdog was paying YOU? lol I expect that the check "is in the mail".
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 7:19 pm
Granny, I was just thinking about you and wondering if it was headed your way. Glad to hear it isn't. Have a safe and fun trip. Right now it is still in the 70's here but the wind is howling through the trees. It sounds so ominous. The cold should be here sometime tomorrow.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 9:36 pm
0° with no wind and 90% humidity. The humidity is high usually it is much lower which makes the cold not feel so cold. Wargod, do you want to adopt me and have me come live with you?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:40 pm
LOL, come on over Chili. You don't happen to cook do you? That humidity has to be as bad as the cold. As soon as the sun went down our temps dropped as rapidly as they'd risen this morning. We went from around 50 to something like 35 in about an hour-hour and a half. We're under another freeze warning for tonight, it's supposed to get down to 16 degrees.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:53 pm
Hey Scooterrific, that looks like a very old tree that fell on that guy's car.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Friday, December 01, 2006 - 12:43 am
I don't burn water when I boil it, if that's what you mean, Wargod.
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