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 Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:08 pm Post subject: photos from the Oklahoma ice storm |
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here are some pictures I took of my house and yard after the ice storm hit last weekend.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: photos from the Oklahoma ice storm |
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| hillbillyatheist wrote: | .
here are some pictures I took of my house and yard after the ice storm hit last weekend.
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It looks cold enough to freeze your nuts off - stay warm and wear your long-johns.
The air-conditioning unit looks a bit redundent at the moment 
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| well its finally got above freezing during the day where I live, and the ice is melting now. (though a snow storm hit Oklahoma again this weekend fortunately for me, it missed the southeastern part of the state. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Sure looks cold like it was last week here in Olympia, WA. Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey! 
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I had my gas space heater on full blast non stop and even had my back up electric space heaters going for a while. (still got my gas heater on full blast) |
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Man...that ice is so misleading. To the casual eye and at a distance, it looks like no great shakes, like a light snow fell, melted and re-froze. You barely realize that there's thousands of pounds of ice pushing on those tree branches and power lines. I bet you have a lot of problems with "black ice", HBA? That's gotta be the worst. At least frozen snow you can see.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:22 am Post subject: |
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| yeah black ice is a major cause of wrecks when it occurs. |
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I understand how 'you guys' (north temperate zoners), have a problem getting your head around the idea of a place where January daily max temperatures hang around the mid-80's to mid-90's, like where I live....
That's Fahrenheit of course, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the only country still using that obsolete and illogical temperature scale, along with non-metric measurements in general...
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| BobSpence1 wrote: | I understand how 'you guys' (north temperate zoners), have a problem getting your head around the idea of a place where January daily max temperatures hang around the mid-80's to mid-90's, like where I live....
That's Fahrenheit of course, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the only country still using that obsolete and illogical temperature scale, along with non-metric measurements in general... |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah we should switch over to the metric system. I don't know why we haven't. |
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| hillbillyatheist wrote: | | yeah we should switch over to the metric system. I don't know why we haven't. |
A teacher in the jail told us the Fahrenheit system comes from some ancient form of measurement of royalty in Middle Ages Europe. Official measures were of the king's feet, an inch was the measurement between his fingers, or something like that. I don't even know if this is true. After all, educators from the local community college in a jail system have been known to spread disinformation in the past.
*Update: that teacher was just making stuff up to fill the hour and a half of lecture time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
So, about this year's ice storm, is this normal weather for winter?
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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| this ice storm was a one in 20 year event, the weather man said. |
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