As a public service, I thought I should report on this upcoming “event”:
This is about as bad as it gets folks. I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it since 1994. Sure its been very cold at times over the past 14 years, but the total area impacted by this cold wave will be huge. By next Thursday and Friday, extremely cold air will chill the entire area from the Great Plains to the Eastern Seaboard, and the cold is also going to reach the Deep South. Only the far West will be unscathed.
From the central Plains to the Northeast temperatures are going below zero; there is no question about it. Meanwhile, the Upper Midwest and northern New England could experience readings lower than 30 below zero!
One might have to go back to Jan. 1994 to find anything worse. In that bitter outbreak, temperatures went below zero from the central Plains to the East Coast. In New York there is a chance it will go below zero next Thursday or Friday night. The last time New York City experienced a below-zero temperature was Jan. 1994.
Okay, you’ve got time to prepare. And as noted a couple days ago, shivering Belgians have discovered a new alternative energy source.
Here is comes
izoneguy Friday, January 9th at 6:45PM EST (link)“Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States,”
George W. Bush
I just need it to last through the inauguration.
itrytobenice Friday, January 9th at 7:17PM EST (link)Actually I’d like it to be below zero for a *high* that day.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Yeah, a sub-zero Inauguration would be good,
Achance Saturday, January 10th at 12:16AM EST (link)sub-freezing would do. Though I remember Kennedy’s; it was cold enough that everybody’s breath was steaming and JFK made quite a show of paying every price and bearing every burden with no hat or coat - caused men to be cold for twenty years and almost destroyed both the hat and topcoat businesses.
In Vino Veritas
With plenty of freezing rain and inches of slick icy roads....
izoneguy Saturday, January 10th at 12:18AM EST (link)n/t
“Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States,”
George W. Bush
Yeah, I won't need a cooler
harpsichord Saturday, January 10th at 5:05PM EST (link)I’ll just put my beer in camel-back and it will stay cold!