TBO Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Polar vortex plunge to bring 'brutally cold' air to Midwest with 'life threatening wind chills' https://www.foxnews.com/us/polar-vortex-plunge-to-bring-brutally-cold-air-to-midwest-with-life-threatening-wind-chills Sent from my Jack boot using Copatalk 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Be careful out on patrol. tom. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWguy Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 I hope my ex-wife in Columbia, MO freezes to her broomstick... 2 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huski92 Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Hate working in this weather. The older I get, the harder it gets. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
refugeepj Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 pray for global warming. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 It's a racket, I tell ya... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duluth Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 I'm right in the center of it. And the snow is about to start. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 3 hours ago, TBO said: Polar vortex plunge to bring 'brutally cold' air to Midwest with 'life threatening wind chills' https://www.foxnews.com/us/polar-vortex-plunge-to-bring-brutally-cold-air-to-midwest-with-life-threatening-wind-chills Sent from my Jack boot using Copatalk Yep. We in Minnesota call this phenomenon Winter. 5 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWARREN123 Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 (edited) In 1976 in Korea we had a artic blast come thru. Cold does not describe what it was! Had to change engine oil to 10 weight and start vehicles every 1/2 hour. Vehicle tires froze to the ground and the retreads peeled off when people tried to move them. Lasted about 12 to 14 days. Edited January 27, 2019 by DWARREN123 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Czervik Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 3 hours ago, TBO said: Polar vortex plunge to bring 'brutally cold' air to Midwest with 'life threatening wind chills' https://www.foxnews.com/us/polar-vortex-plunge-to-bring-brutally-cold-air-to-midwest-with-life-threatening-wind-chills Sent from my Jack boot using Copatalk Waving to y'all northerners in shorts and flip flops. ? 37 minutes ago, DWARREN123 said: In 1976 in Korea we had a artic blast come thru. Cold does not describe what it was! Had to change engine oil to 10 weight and start vehicles every 1/2 hour. Vehicle tires froze to the ground and the retreads peeled off when people tried to move them. Lasted about 12 to 14 days. My only visits to Korea have been in the winter, and it was friggin cold. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGW Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 3 hours ago, deputy tom said: Be careful out on patrol. tom. Tom, you know full well he's ROD and won't leave the office.......... 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 29 minutes ago, Al Czervik said: Waving to y'all northerners in shorts and flip flops. But it might dip into the 40's and you'll have to watch the local news for how to dress in layers, care for pets, car care tips and school delays. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ARP Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 (edited) My sister that works in Kazakhstan, it routinely gets that cold and stays that way for weeks. Was -35*F one day with -60*F wind chill, she took her glove off to see what it felt like. She could feel her fingers freezing up in seconds. When I am home I go out to breakfast in the morning. There is a guy that comes in, I have never seen him wear anything except shorts and a t-shirt socks and work boots. No coat, no hat. I don't ask... W PA. Edited January 28, 2019 by ARP 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 "So cold the vodka pours like syrup..." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 43 minutes ago, Huaco Kid said: Oh, yah! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 12 minutes ago, ARP said: Was -35*F one day with -60*F wind chill, she took her glove off to see what it felt like. She could feel her fingers freezing up in seconds. I was once working (outside, up in the air) and had one of our engineers on the phone. He was in the control room. I had my phone stuffed in my mask and it was hard to hear and he couldn't hear me. He asked why and I told him. He told me to hold my phone properly. I told him to come hold it up his..... He'd tell me numbers to punch in and hit enter. "What's it say?" "I don't know." "What's it say?" "I don't know." "What's it say?" "I don't know." "Why don't you know?" "Because my hands are still in my pockets." "You're wasting my time." "Eat me." "I can't hear you." "Yes you can, lardass. You come show me how. "I can't. I have a medical exemption." "Yeah. Your butt is lard." Some people at work don't like me. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve4102 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump FollowFollow @realDonaldTrump More Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now! 4:59 AM - 20 Jan 2019 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve4102 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Just got back from Red Lake. Fishing out of an Ice Castle. Cold fronts never produce good fishing, so it was slow. Three guys, kept 5 Walleyes. Not good at all for a walleye factory like Red. Woke up this morning to -32 with 10 MPH winds. Don't know what that was calculated as wind chill, but it was cold. Truck wouldn't start, pulled the battery and warmed it in in the Castle for a few beers time and she fired up, but it was not happy. Taking the Castle down and packing up was a pain in the ass for these old bones. Back in the day, wouldn't have thought to much about, now that I am old, it sucked. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borg warner Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Just think, if it wasn't for global warming, we'd really be screwed. I think we all need to deflate our tires. drive bigger cars, and go back to incandescent light bulbs and Freon in our refrigeration units. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve4102 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 18 minutes ago, Borg warner said: Just think, if it wasn't for global warming, we'd really be screwed. I think we all need to deflate our tires. drive bigger cars, and go back to incandescent light bulbs and Freon in our refrigeration units. ...and cut those catalytic converters off out exhaust systems. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duluth Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 3 hours ago, janice6 said: Yep. We in Minnesota call this phenomenon Winter. My daughter's happy about. They just cancelled school tomorrow. I bet the cancel Wednesday too because of the cold. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 I spent many a night at -10 or colder, ice skating for hours. I would bang up my knees and elbows, they would swell up like baseballs, freeze my fingers and toes till you couldn't feel them and they seemed like dead blocks of wood. Go home and thaw out. The worst part of freezing appendages is the thawing out. Really painful as the appendages find out all about warm blood again. Then, the next night grab the ice skates and run the 8 blocks to the small lake in town that the city maintained for skating. Freeze thaw cycles were common place for the young. On the rare day that school would be cancelled (below -15) and the car wouldn't start in the morning, in the evening back to the lake ice skating again. But it's too cold to go to school...………… Great times!!! 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duluth Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 28 minutes ago, janice6 said: I spent many a night at -10 or colder, ice skating for hours. I would bang up my knees and elbows, they would swell up like baseballs, freeze my fingers and toes till you couldn't feel them and they seemed like dead blocks of wood. Go home and thaw out. The worst part of freezing appendages is the thawing out. Really painful as the appendages find out all about warm blood again. Then, the next night grab the ice skates and run the 8 blocks to the small lake in town that the city maintained for skating. Freeze thaw cycles were common place for the young. On the rare day that school would be cancelled (below -15) and the car wouldn't start in the morning, in the evening back to the lake ice skating again. But it's too cold to go to school...………… Great times!!! The rule is -25 air temp or -35 wind chill (real feel). And I remember when school would get cancelled and we'd spend the day outside sledding. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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