Ain't this Global Warming A Bitch!?!
Regards,
Tom Watson
Ain't this Global Warming A Bitch!?!
Regards,
Tom Watson
Thanks for thinking of us, Tom, but NO problem ... got beaucoup of big Al's media clippings to burn until it swings back the other way. :)
We were warned:
"However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age." -- Time Magazine
This was the first snow-free November in 162 years in the City Of Toronto. . . . . . . . . not that it means anything, but those global warming doom-sayers are creating a lot of heat with their jaws.
And those Houston folks sent it east, to us here in south LA. Records show it has never snowed here on Dec 4th, until this evening. Last year it snowed on Dec 11th. The gumbo was perfect, both times.
Sonny
Whereabouts, cher?
I just finished the last bowl I made for Thanksgiving last night ... to hell with turkey!
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That's free range cats to us gourmets.
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If you want an argument, change the subject.
As my departed mother often said, "I just never quite get hungry enough to eat turkey."
I agree with mom.
Lew
Lafayette.
Sonny
I think I mentioned that to my son as we were scraping ice off his windshield, using his Daffy Duck Hair dryer, that he has had for 18 years, to melt the ice around the door. It was frozen shut. He has a final at school this morning and I was out there at 6:30 this morning getting the process started before he joined me.
The bitch about global warming is that those leading the sheep into this way of thinking are simply doing it to get rich.
I recall seeing snow in south and south east Texas 5 times in 55 years. It had snowed significantly 3 times in the last 5 years.
Thanks for think bout us. ;~)
Broke ice along the banks of Bayou Teche duck hunting as a kid, but I don't ever recall seeing snow on the ground.
On the other hand in CT I put on my winter riding gloves for the first time this year last night at 10 PM--my thumb was getting a bit chilly. If this is global warming KEEP IT UP.
It's the American Way. That is not a slight against 'The Way', but think about it. IF Global Warming is a problem, wouldn't you be glad to spend a few billion to fix/solve that problem? Problem---->Solution...somebody gets rich... the American Way. Phony, made-up problem----->Solution...somebody gets rich...also the American Way. Look at the life insurance industry! Selling a $ ?000.0 casket to a bereaved family? More of the same.
Capitalism at its finest. I'm all for it. To have somebody die unnecessarily just so I can then have enough money to put spinners on a Hummer.....not so much.
You left out the frozen, dead, ugly palm trees.
I went throught the Big Freeze of 1982 (1983?) in Houston. There's NOTHING more ugly than a dead palm tree.
-Zz
A Daffy Duck hair dryer? I want one of those! 'cept that by the time I get the thing unraveled, plugged in, and fired up, what little hair I have left would already be dry... :-)
Aw f*ck this. Why don't we just buy Canuckistan and keep it as a cold storage pantry until the global warming thing kicks in. Once it's actually habitable we might be able to make a couple of euros on it.
Regards,
Tom Watson
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I wish I had thouft to take pictures. something to show his kids one day. ;~) IIRC he got it for his 4th Christmas.
Yeah that was a be-och, I was working in an unheated environment.
Then there was the freeze in December of 1989 IIRC. Did not last long but the temp of "7" F was cold by most standards.
I think that's about right. The last big snow we had (for us...) was in '85 or so, and it snowed something like 12". With no snow tires, no snow equipment for the roads, no snow "stuff" at all, it was a wild time. I made a lot of money repairing those metal carports that are favored at apartment complexes as they simply collapsed under the weight of the snow.
kids make snowmen, throw snowballs, and make snow angels.
I remember how ugly it was when all that thawed out, too.
We can take 6" of water a day without much of a hitch. A string of
105F days is OK, too.I was so damn thankful that snow missed us. They thought it would dust us a bit, but unless you were in the extreme north part of the city you didn't get anything.
However, I am expecting some fun pictures of my nephew playing in snow in sunny Houston soon. I am SURE he is enjoying the above mentioned activities to their fullest extent!
Helluva weather year, eh Leon?
We had 61 days over 100 degrees this summer, and another 17 at 100. Now just 2 1/2 months later, it's snowing! Cheer up though. I think next week it will be back in the 70s.
Wish I had a pic of you and your trusty Daffy Duck hair dryer at work..... ;^)
Robert
[Snow, Houston, December] Seventeen times since 1895. Never in consecutive years. Until now.
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