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Storm threatens 100 million in US with snow, ice, cold

danarhea

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CHICAGO – A mammoth storm threatens to dump mounds of fresh snow, sleet and ice on about 100 million already winter-weary people from the US heartland to the east coast, forecasters said Monday.

Here in Houston, it was 70 yesterday. Right now, it is about 39. Quite a drop. We will be having some snow on Friday. Haven't seen that in years. I will try to take a picture of it before it melts, which should take about 10 minutes. LOL.

Anybody here have any stories about the ongoing storm they would like to share?

Article is here.

PS - I decided to make my link one to a political site, just in case anybody would like to blame the storm on either Obama or Bush. :mrgreen:
 
I just want to say, I am not impressed with this storm. We tend to get a lot worse. We North Dakotans would get on the news every month or every other month if they cared, and we would be on every other week if we followed even the smallest amount of the coast's whining.
 
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In Mansfield, La., this morning it was 65. 15 minutes later it was 45 and it's supposed to be in the high teens/low 20's tonight.

I'll be glad when that ****ing global warming kicks in.
 
This one is missing me this time ... which is fine. It seems as though it's affecting more people but I'm not sure it's bigger storm than either of the last two or three Nor'easters that hit the East Cost over the past month.
 
I just want to say, I am not impressed with this storm. We tend to get a lot worse. We North Dakotans would get on the news every month or every other month if they cared, and we would be on every other week if we followed even the smallest amount of the coast's whining.

People in North Dakota are NOT ******s.
 
Bring it on!
 
About as much as they do now, because we are softer.

No way. People starved to death in the plains states during storms like this. They got lost going to the woodpile and froze to death. We are softer, but we also have the means to soften the blow of storms like this.
 
In the middle of a blizzard as we speak. Have lost power twice and the windchill is minus 8, last time I checked.
 
No way. People starved to death in the plains states during storms like this. They got lost going to the woodpile and froze to death. We are softer, but we also have the means to soften the blow of storms like this.

Just think of this. My community's ancestors braved much harsher stuff than this (-50 or worse at times) while in holes in the ground-damn near isolated from anyone else, while the North Easterners had homes.
 
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Here in Houston, it was 70 yesterday. Right now, it is about 39. Quite a drop. We will be having some snow on Friday. Haven't seen that in years. I will try to take a picture of it before it melts, which should take about 10 minutes. LOL.

Anybody here have any stories about the ongoing storm they would like to share?

Article is here.

PS - I decided to make my link one to a political site, just in case anybody would like to blame the storm on either Obama or Bush. :mrgreen:

And in other news, water is wet and the pope is Catholic.
 
Well the folks at Fox News are doing a good job of amping up this storm. A whole tent collapsed. Shocking. I never knew a winter storm could do that :O
 
Well the folks at Fox News are doing a good job of amping up this storm. A whole tent collapsed. Shocking. I never knew a winter storm could do that :O

Yeah, god forbid that they report...news. Just another evil news agency. Oh, wait.
 
No offense to the people up north, but please let this storm stay up there, we don't need anymore ice down here.
 
Yeah, god forbid that they report...news. Just another evil news agency. Oh, wait.

Okay, you really think a tent falling down is news?
 
Okay, you really think a tent falling down is news?

Okay, do you really think that the entire segment was just about a tent falling down?
 
Yeah, god forbid that they report...news. Just another evil news agency. Oh, wait.

It's okay. I know you like melodramatics. I feel awfully tempted to use that cliche "if I had a nickel for every time I...." about now.
 
Okay, do you really think that the entire segment was just about a tent falling down?

It's an ongoing segment that never ends. Never ends.
 
It's okay. I know you like melodramatics. I feel awfully tempted to use that cliche "if I had a nickel for every time I...." about now.

Something like, "if I had a nickel everytime a Leftist started whining about Fox News..."?

I know what you mean. :lamo
 
No, a nickel for every time a national news agency 1) Makes an ass of themselves with regard to storms 2) Over dramatizes storms. I have no idea why you would take this to a political level, considering I make a conscious decision to remove myself from the crap that is CNN and MSNBC.
 
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No, a nickel for every time a national news agency 1) Makes an ass of themselves with regard to storms 2) Over dramatizes storms. I have no idea why you would take this to a political level, considering I make a conscious decision to remove myself from the crap that is CNN and MSNBC.

I know exactly what you mean. A few years ago, Hurricane Rita hit well east of Houston, and the winds here never even made it to 70 miles per hour. However, the news media dramatized the storm so badly that 20 Houstonians were killed in accidents, while evacuating the city, an evacuation that was known to be not necessary 2 days before.
 
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