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Posted by dharmon on Monday, January 12, 2004 3:08 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lone Byrd

Too cold For me! It was -6 in Kingston![sigh]
See proves my point. The weather is shifting - from west to east. Eventually, we will be like California with desert (Nebraska) Mountains (Colorado) and all the horrible blizzards and awful weather we always had, will shift to the east.

California will not be needed any more, so, of course, will fall in the ocean....

[:(]

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Movin' to the Heartland?


Who knows?????? That's up to my employer......my druthers would be to Virginia next.....eventually, when I grow up and have to get a job....it will be to the heartland....the land of my heart.....deep in the heart ......Ed seems to be holding down the fort there for now.....
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Posted by Mookie on Monday, January 12, 2004 2:32 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lone Byrd

Too cold For me! It was -6 in Kingston![sigh]
See proves my point. The weather is shifting - from west to east. Eventually, we will be like California with desert (Nebraska) Mountains (Colorado) and all the horrible blizzards and awful weather we always had, will shift to the east.

California will not be needed any more, so, of course, will fall in the ocean....

[:(]

Mookie


in two and a half years and after I sell my house....that will be fine with me[}:)]
Movin' to the Heartland?

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Posted by dharmon on Monday, January 12, 2004 2:02 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lone Byrd

Too cold For me! It was -6 in Kingston![sigh]
See proves my point. The weather is shifting - from west to east. Eventually, we will be like California with desert (Nebraska) Mountains (Colorado) and all the horrible blizzards and awful weather we always had, will shift to the east.

California will not be needed any more, so, of course, will fall in the ocean....

[:(]

Mookie


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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 12, 2004 1:57 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

A balmy 62 degrees here on the beach in Denver. Will somebody PLEASE send moisture (white stuff or water) before we blow away again!!!
Mookie has thought for some time that the middle of the country - with it's lack of moisture and really bone-chilling cold for extensive periods of time (like November to March) is fast becoming the desert of the nation. We are getting less and less moisture each year and our winters have been quite balmy. The snow we do manage to get it quite dry and unlike Colorado - we have a head start with our own sand pile up north.

MC? Any thoughts?




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Posted by coalminer3 on Monday, January 12, 2004 1:48 PM
Saturday it was 4 to 5 degrees (above) in the heart of the WV coalfields; started getting better yesterday p.m. and is lovely today - sunny and in the low 40's; like to watch the snow melt, 'cause I don't have to shovel.

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Posted by Mookie on Monday, January 12, 2004 12:24 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Lone Byrd

Too cold For me! It was -6 in Kingston![sigh]
See proves my point. The weather is shifting - from west to east. Eventually, we will be like California with desert (Nebraska) Mountains (Colorado) and all the horrible blizzards and awful weather we always had, will shift to the east.

California will not be needed any more, so, of course, will fall in the ocean....

[:(]

Mookie

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 12, 2004 12:14 PM
Too cold For me! It was -6 in Kingston![sigh]
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Posted by Mookie on Monday, January 12, 2004 12:10 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

A balmy 62 degrees here on the beach in Denver. Will somebody PLEASE send moisture (white stuff or water) before we blow away again!!!
Mookie has thought for some time that the middle of the country - with it's lack of moisture and really bone-chilling cold for extensive periods of time (like November to March) is fast becoming the desert of the nation. We are getting less and less moisture each year and our winters have been quite balmy. The snow we do manage to get it quite dry and unlike Colorado - we have a head start with our own sand pile up north.

MC? Any thoughts?

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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, January 12, 2004 11:03 AM
A balmy 62 degrees here on the beach in Denver. Will somebody PLEASE send moisture (white stuff or water) before we blow away again!!!
Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by vsmith on Monday, January 12, 2004 10:24 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by CSSHEGEWISCH

It's about 40 degrees right now in Chicago, a bit on the warm side.

Chicago in winter is still better than Houston in summer.


The last time I was in Texas in the summer the humidity was so thick I had to wear a Mae West (life preserver) to keep from drowning![:D]

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Posted by Mookie on Monday, January 12, 2004 10:20 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by CSSHEGEWISCH

It's about 40 degrees right now in Chicago, a bit on the warm side.

Chicago in winter is still better than Houston in summer.
I agree!

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Monday, January 12, 2004 10:14 AM
It's about 40 degrees right now in Chicago, a bit on the warm side.

Chicago in winter is still better than Houston in summer.
The daily commute is part of everyday life but I get two rides a day out of it. Paul
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Posted by dharmon on Monday, January 12, 2004 10:09 AM
It was so freakin cold this weekend I had to break out the winter gear.........because it was blocking some stuff in the garage I had to get to. Then I packed it neatly back into rubbermaid containers. Since its winter, I've been wearing my darker khaki shorts. The light ones don't come out until easter. [:-^]
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Posted by vsmith on Monday, January 12, 2004 9:35 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by drailed1999

Out here in partly sunny Ca. it will be a blistering 62 degrees today. [:D] I'm running around in a tee-shirt today [8D]


Marty you must be in the frozen northern half of the state[:(].

62 was our LOW over the weekend and it was 80 degrees yesterday in the San Gabriel Valley! [8D][8D][8D]

Thats right 80 ![:D][8D][:D][8D]

Only the last time it was this warm in January was also when we had the Northridge Earthquake[:0][:0][:0]

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Posted by bnsfkline on Monday, January 12, 2004 9:31 AM
On new years day....it was 74 above here in St.louis
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Posted by Mookie on Monday, January 12, 2004 6:38 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by drailed1999

Out here in partly sunny Ca. it will be a blistering 62 degrees today. [:D] I'm running around in a tee-shirt today [8D]
[:I] Oh Marty - they would arrest you in LIncoln for running around in just a t-shirt. But if you want to post pictures, I am sure we would all take a look!

[:X] Mookster

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:51 PM
come on guys---what's a little blizzard now and then. just look at is as one way of being able to spend more time here on the forums if you are snowed in[(-D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:24 PM
A few days it was -45 not including the wind chill.
North of the border. BC

Today is -10 and im going out to work on my sun tan.
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Posted by zardoz on Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:17 PM
272 degrees Kelvin
-1 degrees Celsius
489.67 degrees Rankine
-0.8888889 degrees Reaumur
30 degrees Fahrenheit
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Posted by edblysard on Sunday, January 11, 2004 8:37 PM
Quinten,
We got lots and lots of extra swamp down here, zero snow.
Come on down....
Ed

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Posted by Modelcar on Sunday, January 11, 2004 8:33 PM
.....Hey, don't wi***hat snow on us here in central Indiana...As I said we've had very little so far this season and really I won't be hurt if we don't get any at all the rest of the winter time. I have seen enough of that stuff growing up in western Pennsylvania years ago. So we really know what it is.

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Posted by jchnhtfd on Sunday, January 11, 2004 7:37 PM
- 10 at my place (northern Connecticut) last night. Cold enough that steel things start to shatter when you bang on them. Not fun.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 11, 2004 7:30 PM
I think it was almost 60 here today. Nice day. NO SNOW. Like Ed said, you keep it all up there.
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Posted by edblysard on Sunday, January 11, 2004 7:01 PM
Down in the swamp, it was 29 last night, got to 68 this afternoon.
Will be 48 tonight, almost 70 tomorrow.
You guys can keep all that snow and stuff....
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Posted by Modelcar on Sunday, January 11, 2004 7:01 PM
....We had 0 a few days ago but it is slowly warming since then....No snow. Very little at all so far this season. Muncie, In.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 11, 2004 6:29 PM
here in minnesota right now it is 30 degrees . i'm sure somewhere some hardy soul is walking around in shorts out there. this is positiviely balmy for this area this time of year.[;)][:)]
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Posted by ironhorseman on Sunday, January 11, 2004 5:54 PM
62 degrees

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Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, January 11, 2004 5:44 PM
highs about 30 next couple of days.
stay safe
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Posted by Willy2 on Sunday, January 11, 2004 5:27 PM
Well, today in Omaha it made it all the way up 51. Just a few days ago though, it was about -3.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 11, 2004 4:48 PM
It was freezing last night!! The low last night was -5, and today, it hasn't been much better.

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