Cold front moving in

[Tnhawk]

One cannot walk on the paved streets around here (none level), all either up or down) without falling!

Several years ago while cleaning ice off a my wife's car I ended up with a broken ankle.
I would be content to never see ice or snow again.

 

[bbslider001]

Several years ago while cleaning ice off a my wife's car I ended up with a broken ankle.
I would be content to never see ice or snow again.

I think the bottom line is that extreme cold brings many more inconveniences than extreme heat does. Discomfort is one thing, but the other stuff is the issue for me. Ah well, I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once...blah blah blah.

 

[Axxe55]

I think the bottom line is that extreme cold brings many more inconveniences than extreme heat does. Discomfort is one thing, but the other stuff is the issue for me. Ah well, I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once...blah blah blah.

End up in the ER for heat exhaustion, and your perspective will change. BTDT twice in the last six years.

 

[bbslider001]

End up in the ER for heat exhaustion, and your perspective will change. BTDT twice in the last six years.

Been there man....summer of '96 working cattle in a hot dusty pen. My perspective hasn't changed. I know how to hydrate and monitor myself. Heat does not bother me. Sounds like you need to learn how to hydrate and know when enough is enough.

 

[Axxe55]

Been there man....summer of '96 working cattle in a hit dusty pen. My perspective hasn't changed. I know how to hydrate and monitor myself. Heat does not bother me.

I use to say the same thing about twenty years ago. As you get older, extreme temps have an affect on your body. I also fully understand about staying hydrated, but it can sneak up on you before you even realize that you're getting dehydrated.

 

[TX oddball]

Finally...when I woke up early this morning, there was 1-2" of snow and ice on my driveway. Now, it is very sunny, it is all pretty much gone, my truck is defrosted and clear of any snow. Just waiting on the grass (4-6" deep) and the rest of the yard...

 

[Axxe55]

Maybe I should pull out the Whiskey and tattoo gun. What could go wrong? LOL

Another redneck moment in history!

"Here, hold my beer and watch this shit!"

 

[dsgrey]

Several years ago while cleaning ice off a my wife's car I ended up with a broken ankle.
I would be content to never see ice or snow again.

Listening to the scanner yesterday morning...very easy to do! 1st call was a woman with a fractured wrist due to falling on the ice. Next was another woman with a broken leg due to falling an hour earlier.

 

[deemus]

Bingo! Sun is out, thermometer just hit 32°.

33 here and sunny. Ventured to the grocery store around noon. Main roads are good except bridges which are still frozen.
Streets in my hood are spotty, Ok to go slow.

should freeze tonight so I won’t get out before noon. But its melting quickly this afternoon. .

 

[DoubleDuty]

Same here thawing out until tonight

 

[BRD@66]

41 here @ 3pm. 6 degrees warmer than was predicted. We still have porch steps iced over on the shady side of the house but ok on the sunny steps.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

It's strange, we only just hit 32 here.

 

[striker55]

35° in Katy

 

[MTA]

Four trees cut down. I am beat

 

[Big Green]

 

[Tnhawk]

I gotta say, I sure appreciate you not saying the typical "Texans don't know what winter is". Yeah, we really don't. We don't get fluffy snow and all that. 90% of the time, we get straight up ice. It's a little different.

If Texans don't know what winter is then I don't want to know. I got all the cold I ever want to see in Alaska, New York, Korea and Japan but I wasn't in my 70s then.

 

[RedArmy]

In my younger days I moved to Virginia where my sister lives to see if I would like it over there. Took a job working for a construction company that built restaurant chains. I worked all over the east coast, it was during this time that I learned to have a particular hatred for cold. I remember being in Trenton New Jersey on a job to build a Crispy Cream Donuts restaurant, it was a balmy -6 during the morning hours. They pile snow into mountains over there two stories high and this is considered normal. Curfew after 6:00 PM for road traffic, not only froze my giblets off but also found it depressing. I'm just not cut out for cold climates, I love the heat and I'll take it any day of the week over this freezing crap. Needless to say I found that Virginia and the whole east coast just wasn't for me, give me heat and fire! It is beautiful country out that way though.

 

[mad88minute]

I neither love or hate this weather. Living in Texas and working outside in the summer my entire life makes me appreciate the cold though. I can see how it would be tiring if I had to deal with it half the year, but for a few days or even a week I'll take it over August weather.

Exactly.

I always say I can put more clothes on and dress for cold. I can't go to work naked.


In my line of work I have to wear certain items for PPE. And a stupid uniform for arc flash. Summer is miserable.
Yesterday and today was cold but I dressed well. My hands and face started going numb but it's not as bad as my nut sweat soaking my socks.


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[seeker_two]

Exactly.

I always say I can put more clothes on and dress for cold. I can't go to work naked.

Sure you can.....but only once.....


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[Coiled]

I'd ask how you lost one but maybe you were born special.

Either way I'm regretting the thought at all and I'm certain I'll regret the post.