Death to Jack Frost!

[boballab]

Being without power due to ice is the worst. NO heat unless you are lucky enough to either use Propane or natural gas for cooking. Then light the stove and hope you don't die of asphixiations (sp). I can't tell you how many times I've been through it. Longest was almost two weeks. But you want cold, try a syberian express. When I was a kid in Iowa they came through often. 20-40 below actual temps with high winds. Wind chill 100-140 below. Now that's cold. For heat, we had that too. At least when I was a kid. This global warming has taken the edge off at both extreams. I remember most of August would be 100 plus with high humidity. And we couldn't afford AC. It's a world better now that global warming has kicked in and mellowed the temps and extreams in weather. Althugh I will never forget April 9, 1973.......10 foot snow drifts. That whole winter was bad. Some cars were lost for months on the side of the road, and people got lost in the blizards. They used dozers to clear city streats because nothing else could get through. Living in the country it took over a week to get to town, we had no running water (frozen) and electricity was intermitten. At least we were off school for two weeks, althoguh we paid for it with saturdays and school lasting well into summer.

Come on global warming. I don't like winter nor the too hot summers.

I know what you mean about that wind chill. I went through training at Great Lakes Naval training center north of Chicago, damm was that cold. 50 below with -100 with the wind chill. Then there was the other extreme at Subic Bay in the Philippines after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption. No power, no running water, 100degrees with 95% humidity. Nothing like living next to a Triple canopy Jungle with no power and no water and at the same time having to clean off ash from the roofs of buildings. People were dropping left and right from heat exhaustion.
Here is a pic of what it was like

http://www.subicbaypi.com/sub_desbase021.htm
Looks kind of like snow but that is all volcanic ash which was wet from a Typhoon that came through at the same time as the eruption which caused buildings to collapse.
http://www.subicbaypi.com/sub_desbase010.htm

[michaelsuave]

I hear the power is back on in your neck of the woods, but that its still cold out. With all that cold and ice, I guess you're having to spend a lot of time indoors, huh? So with all that time on your hands, I've got to ask... Is it done yet? Probably not, but I don't have anything better to do!?


~Michael