How's Global Warming Working For You ?

[392cobra]

Russians Brace For The Big Chill

January 16, 2008 8:18 p.m. EST


Jupiter Kalambakal - AHN News Writer

Moscow, Russia (AHN) - Russians are bracing for temperatures of as low as minus 55 degrees Celsius (minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit) in Siberia as Russia's emergencies ministry warns on Wednesday of its impending dangers in the coming weeks.

Government agencies were placed on high alert, reports AFP. The ministry ordered local administration officials to prepare for the extreme chill expected to last until Jan. 21.

The ministry warned that the unusually cold weather could kill, cause frost-bite, conk heaters and cut electricity to homes, disrupt transport, increase the rate of car accidents and even destroy buildings across Siberia.

The freezing temperatures have already caused overloading of electricity grids and power interruptions in the regions of Irkutsk and Tomsk because of overused heaters in homes. Two people have already died and more than 30 others hospitalized with forst-bite in Irkutsk, reports AFP citing state media.

Bloomberg reports that worst hit will be the Siberian region of Evenkiya, while neighbor Georgia, whose climate is subtropical, already plunged to as low as minus 35 degrees Celsius. Lake Paliastomi in the western Georgia froze for the first time in 50 years, reports Rustavi-2 television.


Schools have been closed down in at least four regions because of the cold.


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[4into4]

I heard there was some big global warming convention in New England a week or two ago that the Enviornmentalists couldn't get to because the snow was so deep.

[Smokingcobra2]

Isn't it odd that NBC goe's crazy with the Green crap and there owned by GE who can't wait to capitalize on those who believe the B/S.
The warmest year on record was around 103 years ago. FOLLOW THE MONEY!
And now our school kids are getting indoctrinated with no opposing view's allowed.
joeg

[Ron61]

Fred,

Read my post of this mornings weather forecast for here near the bottom of the page in this thread. Really sounds as if it is going to be hot here.

New, New Chat Thread

Ron

[392cobra]

Ron,
your post is what got me to post this thread.
So,your post was helpful,that bumps your helpful total to 2501.

Last January (2007) here was the coldest in 20 years.

[Ron61]

Fred, The latest follow up on that is the wind from the Gulf of Alaska will be here tomorrow with a chance of rain at times. Snow isn't supposed to amount to much but a possible wind chill factor of around 10 degrees. And I stress possible. With the way our weather is, it may be 80 degrees tomorrow and people will be running their air conditioners. The only thing I have noticed really is that we seem to have a little more humidity here in the Summers than we did 20 years ago so a 118 degree day6 has a heat index of around 125. And we had a few more of them than last year, but that is just normal as some years we have a week or so of it and other years just scattered days. It is the humidity that I have noticed which seems to be on a slow but constant rise here. The heat is bad enough, but throw in some humidity and it is worse for old farts like me.

Ron

[427 S/O]

First snow here in 8-10 years, Yeah! GW is working just fine.........

[Art Burtt]

Global warming is working really well here in NO.NJ except when it's in the teens and barely breaks 30 during the day and it snows. Global warming mt ass!!

[63mercury]

Just got back home from town and the temp is 0, thats right zip so it should be well below by daylite, so much for warming.

[Silverback51]

This about covers it.

[Ron61]

Nice poster. Wonder what his next great thing will be. Maybe to tell the truth about something. Na, no way, he is a politician.

Ron

[Wes Tausend]

...

Global Warming was working great. A few days ago, I was working in a tee-shirt helping a buddy tear down a 36'x72' metal building he got for free... if he can move it in time.

Then a couple of days ago, it rained on what was left of the roof, froze, and then snowed on top of the ice. Then the temp dropped to -14 F.

At least it's above zero now. Every bone in my body hurts. It didn't hurt like this in my 50's and I never even fell this time.


...

[trularin]

It was 5 this morning.

It doesn't feel any warmer now that it's a little after 5.

[Sharroll Celby]

Why would you resort to "Chicken Little" name-calling? Very liberal of you.

[392cobra]

Any of ya'll ever read or hear the story about a Texan moving north?

A Texan Moves North


January 10


It's 5:00PM. It's starting to snow. The first of the season and the first one we've seen in years. The wife and I took our hot buttered rum and sat by the picture window watching the soft flakes drift down, clinging to the trees and covering the ground. It was so beautiful.


January 11


We woke to a lovely blanket of crystal white snow covering the landscape. What a fantastic sight. Every tree and shrub covered with a beautiful mantle. I shoveled snow for the first time in my life and loved it. I did both the driveway and the sidewalk. later a snow plow came along and accidentally covered up the driveway with compacted snow from the street. The driver waved and smiled. I waved back and shoveled again.


January 12


It snowed an additional 5 inches last night and the temp has dropped to 11 degrees. Several tree limbs have snapped in the snow. I shoveled the drive again. Shortly afterwards the snowplow came again. Now the now is a brownish-grey.


January 13


It warmed enought today to cause slush which froze again when the temp dropped. Bought snow tired for both cars. Fell on my a$$ in the driveway. $145.00 to a chiropractor. Northing broken. More snow.


January 14


Still cold as hell. Sold the wife's car. Bought a 4x4 to get her to work. Slid into a guardrail anyways, considerable damage. Another 8 inches of snow last night. Both vehicles covered with salt and crud. More shoveling for me. The goshdarn snowplow came twice today.


January 15


It's 2 !@#$%^& degrees outside. More !@#$%^& snow. Not a tree on our property hasn't been damaged. Power was off most of the night. Tried to keep from freezing to death with candles and a kerosene heater, which tipped over and nearly burned the !@#$%^& house down. Managed to put out the flames but suffered 2nd degree burns on my hands plus lost all my eyelashes and eyebrows. car slid off the road on the way to the emergency room and totalled it.


January 16


More mother!@#$%^& goshdarn white $hit keeps coming down. Have to put on all the clothes we own just to get to the !@#$%^ mailbox. If I ever catch the son-of-a-b*tch who drives that !@#$%^ snowplow, I'll chew open his chest and rip out his heart. I think he hides around the corner till I shovel. Power still off. Roof has started to cave in.


January 17


Six more !@#$%^& inches of !@#$%^& white ****e and !@#$%^& sleet and no tellin' what the !@#$ else fell last night. I wounded the !@#$ing snowplow **** with an ice axe, but he got away. Wife left me. The car won't start. I think I'm going snowblind. I can't feel my ****ing toes. Haven't seen the sun in weeks. More white $hit forecast. Wind chill is 22 below. I'm moving my a$$ back to Texas.

[Ron61]

I'm not sure what the rest of the state has for rain fall, but we are well below our normal up here and have been for the past three years. We did have more so far this Winter than in the last to put together, but a look at the lake will tell you we are not nearly normal. The snow packs on Lassen and Shasta are more than last year, but still some ways from the normal. But if this weather keeps staying cold and we keep getting falling stuff, they should start to add up. Last Summer they had the road through Lassen cleared the earliest in history as it normally takes until late June or early July to get it completely clear and last summer it was opened May I think it was. The snow was so light that they could just go through with a regular plow and throw it off instead of having to haul it out of deep cuts.

Ron

[bomelia]

I am not sure what the point of this thread is...couldn't even read Fred's last post what with all the shaking.

Nice avatar!

Mike

[392cobra]

Originally Posted by bomelia

I am not sure what the point of this thread is...couldn't even read Fred's last post what with all the shaking.

Nice avatar!

Mike

To show off the new avatar.

[Excaliber]

It's been so darn cold here I've started wearing long sleeve shirts when I ride the motorcycle into work...

[Ron61]

Gee Ernie, I really feel for you. It is so cold here that the cold front from the Gulf of Alaska detoured around us to keep from getting warmed up before it gets to Tru and Warren.

Ron