I know you are missing this particular blast pea, but don't play innocent with me. I remember this happening in 88 or 89 when I was in Co Spgs and it was below 0 for days and my car wouldn't start the whole damn time.
Also 45 is cold to us too. This 20's stuff is intolerable.
I never understood how cold could be bitter. Taste and temperature are not even remotely the same measurements.
now i HAVE TO KNOW!!!!
bitter (adj.)
Old English biter "bitter, sharp, cutting; angry, embittered; cruel," from Proto-Germanic *bitras- (cf. Old Saxon bittar, Old Norse bitr, Dutch bitter, Old High German bittar, German bitter, Gothic baitrs "bitter"), from PIE root *bheid- "to split" (cf. Old English bitan "to bite;" see bite (v.)). Evidently the meaning drifted in prehistoric times from "biting, of pungent taste," to "acrid-tasting." Used figuratively in Old English of states of mind and words. Related: Bitterly
As an update to my last post, where I described how in Oxford has no weather except rain, it has now started raining more. I got hailed on pretty heavily on my bike to the train station this morning.
Here's a consequence of Oxford's rainy nature:
That's a main road going south out out of the city. Not the river.
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I never understood how cold could be bitter. Taste and temperature are not even remotely the same measurements.
now i HAVE TO KNOW!!!!
bitter (adj.)
Old English biter "bitter, sharp, cutting; angry, embittered; cruel," from Proto-Germanic *bitras- (cf. Old Saxon bittar, Old Norse bitr, Dutch bitter, Old High German bittar, German bitter, Gothic baitrs "bitter"), from PIE root *bheid- "to split" (cf. Old English bitan "to bite;" see bite (v.)). Evidently the meaning drifted in prehistoric times from "biting, of pungent taste," to "acrid-tasting." Used figuratively in Old English of states of mind and words. Related: Bitterly
What a difference a day makes. The high yesterday was 17ºF, today it is 41ºF and a whole lot of sunshine and melting.
I hope some of that is coming my way. My drive way is a sheet of ice and my truck is at the bottom of the hill, even with a load of wood in the back. And my wife is planning on walking up the hill tonight when she gets home. I really need the ice to go away.
__________________ The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about. Wayne Dyer
My daughters drain to the shower froze up and she cleared it with a hair dryer. Then I gave her some anti-freeze to put in the trap to keep it from freezing.
There is electric heat tape for pipes, but I wouldn't want to pay the electric bill, - or the plumber.
__________________ The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about. Wayne Dyer
Before I insulated our garage, our shower drain froze one cold ass week in January. I poured hot water in the drain until it opened up.
Open up the cabinets below sinks to allow warmer air around the pipes. The pipes on outer walls are more likely to freeze. A slow drip of water helps too. Moving from the farm to the city fixed a lot of the issues, but my parents still run into them from time to time. They also have tank heaters and a heat lamp in the pump house to keep the external water stuff from freezing.
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Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm the rest of his life.
Flint got the highest snowfall in Michigan for this storm with 17.1 inches. Still short of the worst storm recorded in Michigan which hit in late January 1967, days after I was born. For decades, every time there has been a bad storm my mother has reminisced about how bad it was the day they brought me home from the hospital. Now I understand why.
We didn't work yesterday, which was good since there was no way I would have been able to get out without a couple more hours of shoveling. On Monday I shoveled to the end of the driveway but knew I couldn't get out if they didn't plow. The snow was drifting toward my side of the street and it was about two feet high at the end of my driveway.
Well, they plowed. They plowed in a completely half-assed way leaving enough space for a parked car on my side of the road, but plowing right up to the curb on the side without the drifting. Bastards! It went so far out that the 50 foot cord on my electric snow-blower ran out before I finished and I had to do the last foot and a half by hand. I really, really hate Flint.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
I swear the guy with the plow waits around the corner watching me blow snow out of my driveway. Because I barely get my coat off in the garage and I hear him go by; piling snow back on the end of my driveway. He goes fast enough that it usually covers the sidewalk too.
He also hates my neighbor and plows strips of grass and dirt off his yard. But that's understandable. Nobody likes my neighbor.
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Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm the rest of his life.
we reached 1 degree above 0! the windchill a subtle -13....
we are heady with relief, walking around in our heavy coats...unbuttoned!
i just got in from the last of the horse chores... throughout this onslaught, i have probably doubled the amount of hay they usually consume... they are standing on it in some spots.... so when i tossed their evening rations, instead of the usual enthusiasm of whinnies and oneupsmanship for position, they stood looking at me over the fence as i left, reminding me very much of monty python's mr. creosote
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
I for one like weather updates from you hardcore types. It's like I can experience 40 below vicariously, which is the only way I'd really want to anyway.
Our current weather APPEARS to be in the mid-50s, sunny, with a slight breeze. That's what our eyeballs and our home weather station tell us. But those are INCORRECT. My internet weather ticker informs me that it is in the low thirties and snowing.
Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
F is still pretty gosh darned cold.
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