Brrrrr

[VA Rifleman]

Yah. Exc idea to have backup before venturing into a storm!  CB’s with amps have a lot of range.

Tell em you think a drone would come in handy.

[oldandslow]

We have the cold as predicted and also the snow. Prediction was an inch or less and we got less but no freezing rain or sleet as also predicted. My driveway is graveled and I can see about half of the gravel above the snow. The paved road in front of my home was clear. This is our third snow of the year and if all three were stacked they might equal two and a half inches. It was nine degrees last night, one degree below the prediction but they have raised tonight's from three to five. I am just killing time in the house. This is extreme for here and my old bones ache when they get cold. COME ON, summertime.

[Dee]

Still coming down pretty hard here. Hasn't quit since night before last, with wind.
It has warmed up to 12 degrees.

[Ranger99]

21 F right now          

Thankfully, all the white stuff we were
supposed to get went somewhere else

They said Alabama got some tornado
action. Hope everyone is ok

[Dee]

2 degrees this mornin. Quit snowing though.

[Lloyd Smale]

2 degees and snow in TX. Who would have thunk it   Im sure the liberals could find a way to blame global warming on it.

[Dee]

It got down to zero for about an hour this morning. In this part of Texas zero or below, ain't all that uncommon.
We're an hour from Kansas, and less than 2 hours from Colorado.

LOL, took the leaf blower and blew the snow off my pickup. Dry, dry, dry snow.

[oldandslow]

The weather station about 18 miles north of me recorded .1 degree for a low last night. I would have just called it zero and been done with it. Whatever. Our brass monkey is hurting this morning. Temperature that low is pretty uncommon for here but if I were 80 miles farther south I would be in Texas right north of Kermit. My little dab of snow was all gone except for in the shade late yesterday afternoon. It only managed 20 degrees but when the clouds went away so did the snow shortly after.

[Dee]

So your around Lovington, Tatum  NM

[oldandslow]

Yep. Closer to Lovington than Tatum. Wish I were about half way in between now as it's become a little too crowded to suit me. At least it is empty to the west.

[Bob Riebe]

It is 4 degrees and breezy right now, 11:30 A.M. ; now one of the TV talking weather heads made a profound statement yesterday:

El doofus said that it will be -30 degrees 100 miles north of here, and that with a wind, that could BECOME dangerously cold!

Now I know these babbling heads are only semi-literate concerning sub-zero weather, as they have never worked in it, but -30 is dangerously cold WITHOUT any damned wind.

[Dee]

Years ago I picked up a genuine outlaw up at their county jail and took him back to Texas.
He didn't particularly want to go, but he made it in one piece.

[oldandslow]

Most seem to have moved to Hobbs. Lots more victims to choose from down there. Lovington is rated as the third safest town in the state, up from #1 a couple of years ago. Of course Lovington is the county seat so the bad ones wind up here in the county jail.

I saw where the city of Lovington just added four more brand new cop cars to the fleet. I thought all the old ones were in pretty good shape as about the only place you see one is at the station or the coffee shop. The coffee shop is a whole block and a half from the station so it requires a drive.

[Mule 11]

It is 4 degrees and breezy right now, 11:30 A.M. ; now one of the TV talking weather heads made a profound statement yesterday:

El doofus said that it will be -30 degrees 100 miles north of here, and that with a wind, that could BECOME dangerously cold!

Now I know these babbling heads are only semi-literate concerning sub-zero weather, as they have never worked in it, but -30 is dangerously cold WITHOUT any damned wind.

I’ve read stories of some not being informed of the weather drop. Between -30 and -50. Never been there myself and don’t want to know. I believe - 20 or so is my experience and that was a might cold...

[Dee]

Most seem to have moved to Hobbs. Lots more victims to choose from down there. Lovington is rated as the third safest town in the state, up from #1 a couple of years ago. Of course Lovington is the county seat so the bad ones wind up here in the county jail.

I saw where the city of Lovington just added four more brand new cop cars to the fleet. I thought all the old ones were in pretty good shape as about the only place you see one is at the station or the coffee shop. The coffee shop is a whole block and a half from the station so it requires a drive.

This clown committed the felony in our county then tried to hide out in New Mexico. Lovington apparently done a traffic stop on him and ran him for warrants. He had one out of Texas from us, so we asked them to hold. He tried to fight extradition, but he lost.

[Ranger99]

I'm tired of all the cold and
frozen precipitation myself.
If I wanted the cold I'd move
to a remote part of Alaska
like I started to decades ago

[Dee]

Well enjoy your global warming. When summer gets down there it once again, be miserable.

[Ranger99]

I can put up with it
When I was little, we had A swamp
cooler for the house.
No a/c in school until I got to high school.
A fan in the classroom pointing at the
teacher .

JMHO- I'm always glad for
the heat and humidity. It makes
outsiders reconsider moving here

[Dee]

LOL, ours is melting.

[Ranger99]

21 F now
Supposed to hit 43 F later today
( whoopie) 

[Dee]

LOL, our high is supposed to be 48

[oldandslow]

Same here. Real heat wave coming. Supposed to get over 50 tomorrow.

Ranger got to go to school in nice conditions. We had windows with no shades, no swamp coolers, no fans, just whatever the wind blew in on the South Plains of Texas.

[Ranger99]

We had open windows too, but nobody
got butthurt, and we actually learned
and could spell and do math before we
were allowed to advance a grade.
Unless the ptb called school off, we
were there. Never was called off
for excessive heat

[Dee]

So did we. We had open windows with no screens, so we shooed mats and flys in warm weather.
In the winter it was big gas space heaters in every room with 16 foot ceilings.
The gymnasium had two big space heaters  one on each side by the doors.

Reading, writing, arithmetic, and Texas history.

Later years, English, and American history.

[Ranger99]

" modern " heating in the schools i
attended.  Metal doo dads along the
wall that hot water flowed through
from a big boiler room at the far end
of the school. Same room where the
janitor had a big brick oven where all
the paper trash and grass clippings
and burn able things went. I'm
assuming that's where the supply
of red sawdust for throwing on
puddles of kid vomit was stored

[oldandslow]

We had the same metal doo-dads along the walls but the cooling was just big glass windows along one wall that the bottom half pushed out to let anything that came along in. In high school I had PE before biology class and I caught a horn toad outside during PE and took it to biology class. The teacher was a brand new, up tight, graduate from Texas Tech and had the teaching skills of a rock. She immediately ordered me to get that "animal" back outside. We were on the second floor, the windows were open, and there was big sand drift about 3" high along the outside wall. I walked over and dropped the horn toad out the window onto the sand. You would have thought I had dropped a human baby out the window from the hissy fit she threw. All the students got a big laugh out of it and the horn toad just scurried off to do what horn toads do, no worse for wear.

[mcbammer]

" modern " heating in the schools i
attended.  Metal doo dads along the
wall that hot water flowed through
from a big boiler room at the far end
of the school. Same room where the
janitor had a big brick oven where all
the paper trash and grass clippings
and burn able things went. I'm
assuming that's where the supply
of red sawdust for throwing on
puddles of kid vomit was stored

Yep, I guess those big cast iron radiators have all found their way to the scrap yard  by now . I remember backing my a$$ up to them on many a cold morning . If I remember ,the  janitors would scatter the red sawdust to keep the dust down when they mopped the floors  also .

[phalanx]

How about when homes had that big square gas heater grill on the floor. Many a kid got burned by them. Or a toddler would walk across them. It would burn the crap out of them.

[Bob Riebe]

How about when homes had that big square gas heater grill on the floor. Many a kid got burned by them. Or a toddler would walk across them. It would burn the crap out of them.

My one Grandpa had on of those but it was wood fired.
I was taught early on do not sit , or walk on it; poor parenting is the only reason any child would be seriously burned.

[Bob Riebe]

I remember ,the  janitors would scatter the red sawdust to keep the dust down when they mopped the floors  also .

WOW, first time I have thought of that since I graduated from High School.
I wonder if they still make that stuff?

It is 10 degrees here now a Noon Hour, we are about to get some of he days I hate in Winter, especially January and February, high thirties to low forties, for a few days, back to single digits minus temps than back to the high thirties.

I want winter to be winter, if it never got above 25 degrees from Dec. to the end of Feb. I am happy; worse thing is thinking of gardening ( and the farmers up here) our snow cover is far below  what it should be and after last summer drought , that will not be enough for even good planting this spring.
We need minimum another foot and one half of snow.