More bitching about the cold
Yeah. So take that.
Some twit – no one I know personally, or will admit to knowing – suggested just the other day that cold weather is relative. What is considered cold up here in Maine, she said, is felt the same way in the south where she resides in spite of a vast temperature differential. Fifty degrees down there, she said, is as uncomfortable to them as freezing temperatures up here.
Two which I say: go suck an icicle.
The wind chill hit 33 below zero during the night at Massena, N.Y., and the National Weather Service predicted actual temperatures nearly that low in parts of the region by Thursday night.
Winter-hardened people across northern New England bundled up amid warnings about how fast exposed skin can freeze.
We’re talking about freezing skin here, Sunshine State. If we don’t cover our hands and faces, parts of them will turn black and then fall off. If you go out without a hoody, you might erupt in an embarrassing rash of goosebumps.
“Anyone who sends their kid out today is out of the running for parent of the year,” said Eric Friedman, a spokesman for Mad River Glen ski area in Fayston, Vt. A frostbite caution sign was posted at the ticket office, but few skiers were there to see it because of the 5-below-zero cold, Friedman said.
People who ski are insane. They will go out to the slopes if it means killing and gutting lift operators and crawling inside their bellies in between runs. But not this time around. When you get skiiers off the slopes and fisherman stay away from their shacks, you know it’s biblical cold.
Maine residents braced for nighttime readings down to 40 below zero. And in the Midwest, Iowans were warned that temperatures could drop as far as 27 below zero during the night, matching a Jan. 15 record set in 1972.
Did you read that correctly? That’s 40 below zero. That’s 90 ticks of the thermometer colder than your “dreadfully cold” blast of 50 degree weather in Orlando. Saying the cold is relative is like saying we should stop complaining up here because it’s really cold on Mars this morning.
No deaths have been reported in the Northeast.
I expect that to change soon. Because I plan on killing a snowbird, burying his corpse in a mound of snow that won’t melt until July, and stealing his identity. I hear he has a nice Condo in Daytona. See you on the beach, neighbor!
January 15th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Gonna go brave it. My car’s not even warmed up!
January 15th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Oh for crying out loud people.Stop sniviling and whining.This is Maine after all!What do you expect in Jan & Feb?It was 22 below on my thermometer this morning when I got up.Went out and grained and watered the chickens while my coffee was brewing,all in my p.j. and bathrobe .Makes on step lively!Good for your health.`oL Dad went out and threw some wood in the wood boiler.Such is life in the Maine woods in winter!Stsy warm all you flatlanders.
January 15th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Man – I feel your pain. Had to run the defroster for 4 or 5 minutes this morning before I could back out of the driveway. What an uncomfortable & inconvenient way to start the day.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
bunch of us old guys gathered randomly around the new batch of sickly looking haddock at Future Foods. Guess we didn’t help much pawing it over either.We got to chuckling that for us pensioners, the prices of the fish were as extreme as the temperatures in the “weatha”. we got laughing aloud at how we dreaded the cold snaps coming on and when they actually get here, we seem to live through them. “I’m here, It’s bitchin cold, and I’m all right. Can’t be all that bad. Ya have t’laugh dontcha? We’re making it and we don’t feel all that bad.”
I love Maine people. They just learn to make do. At the same time, we have earned out right to bitch. Remember the old saying, “You don’t really deserve the summer paradise of Maine if you ain’t stuck out the wintah.”
-Charlie
January 15th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Oh ya Mark, love the penguins.sort of what I feel like doing to the 50 degree cold blast gal. Not to be mean or ennythin.
-Charlie
January 15th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I have a friend in Florida who was bragging to me the other day about sitting beside his pool having coffee, watching his son splash away and it was a wonderful 80*! Ha! The fool and his son arrived in Maine today and now I’m the one laughing at him! Didn’t even have a proper winter coat!
January 15th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
A certain Doctor friend of ours called from poolside in CA to ask me about the temp here. That’s just not right. Downright mean, really. But I don’t mind this cold weather. Good reason to cuddle.
January 15th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
I’m all about bitching about the weather. Gotta have something to bitch about this time of year. What else is there to do?
January 16th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
They’re predicting the temps to be 17 degrees (24 along the coast where I live) here in Florida tonight & through late morning tomorrow. Now I’m glad I had that practice time in Chicago.
January 16th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
This is why I have remote starter on my car…..I go from heated home to heated car to heated job or heated store….spend very little time outside in this miserable cold weather….So I really have no right or reason to bitch and whine except that it does get a bit cold on the legs when I run from house to car in shorts to go get my dunkaccino in the mornings