Gas line freeze. Frostbite. General misery. This is what the midwest is currently suffering through. My truck registered -4 degrees on my trip to work this morning. It is supposed to be worse tomorrow.
I hope you smug people in Florida and Southern California are having a nice day.
A general power outage tonight - keeping us from watching the Colts in the Super Bowl - would just be perfect - definitely be the "icing" on the cake.
Amazingly, I am holding off the urge to...
I mean... I've sworn off the tasteless illustrations of...
Oh, what the heck.
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Maybe this will make you feel just a bit better...
At 8:15am, the actual temperature is -6 with a windchill of -28 and at least 14 inches of snow on everything.
Does that help?
Christina,
Not much. But drifting snow would definitely have made my commute more scary.
I've heard that when the weather gets like this, it's good to put your cats outside. You might try that. Just make sure they have water.
oh WOW. putting the cats outside...so harsh.
Actually, my poor kittos would probably be just about as warm outside as they are in here. They got stuck with a stingy heat-user. I did finally break down and turn on heat in the living room. I decided when I my fingers went numb as I typed...it was time to warm the place up.
You're a good woman Bekah. My house is cold in the winter - usually between 60 and 62. I bundle up, use an electric blanket, and save a lot on my heating bill - and I get fewer colds. I get fewer visitors, and the ones I get don't stay as long.
Do you get that from your dad?
LOL - I'm glad you feel my pain! Back in the day, my college boyfriend didn't run ANY heat in his apartment, and his sole form of staying warm was his ONE electric blanket. I'd fight him for it when I went over. He ususally won - he was much stronger.
Dad can afford to keep his house warm - he heats with wood. BUT - you might find this amusing. If the house ever got so cold that the baseboard heat kicked on, Dad would stand in front of the thermostat with a hairdryer until it registered warm enough that the heat went off. We made fun of him for being the only member of the house to use a hairdryer - and he has no hair!
Bekah,
It sounds like your dad is, umm..., thrifty.
We used to have a house that was built in 1928, and it had the furnace in the crawlspace, with one vent in the floor of the hallway, covered by about an 18 x 24 inch grate. When the furnace kicked on, the kids and I would stand on the grate and luxuriate in the heat until the grate got too hot to stay on. Aaahhh.... Central heating lacks the same charm.
My, my, your cat-hating vitriol seems to be stronger in cold weather.
Perhaps it's because you've never known the warmth that a purring cat can provide while sleeping on your lap.
Here is California it was 89 degrees on Superbowl Sunday (I am not kidding, it really was!) By the way, congratulations Indiana!
CG,
The day after the game the Colts, their coaches, and their owner got on floats in downtown Indianapolis - with temperatures hovering around zero - and greeted cheering fans.
89 degrees would have been nice.
A rainless super bowl would have been nice, too.
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