We don't send our 110 degree summer temps up to you guys, please close your freezer door. Already had 2 scrimmages cancelled. 
and they are predicting 6-12 inches of snow Sunday night - Monday.
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I don't want to hear your problems! For the last 3 weeks it has first rained, then froze, then snowed. My snowblower will no longer throw over the drifts and it is 5 below zero.
Scrimmage cancelled? I could sleep outside if it were 36 degrees.
Well my car temp was 95 when I got in this afternoon. Sorry guys 
You suck. I would be thrilled with 59!
I was out biking today since it was sunny. The key is no snow in the bike lanes. It’s was 25 with wind chill gusts to 11. I got a real good snow bank facial from one gust.
I have one of those warm, sissy looking bike suits. I wear sweat pants and a hoodie over it.
Nothing wrong with long toss in a snow field; do some activation band work in the basement before you pull up your snow bibs. Bring a spray bottle of water out with you, and you can change the weight of your snow balls to match your under load / over load program.
Looks like Mankini weather down in Fort Worth, to me. High today of -5. Lows somewhere around -20. My HS jr. asked me if he should wear long pants instead of shorts to his pitching lesson.
Sunny and 70 here in SoCal. Still can't play any games, but at least longtoss and outdoor bullpens are pleasant?
Supposed to get down to 10 degrees on Monday early morning down here in the Houston area. My son’s high school had an early morning indoor practice today because they were off school today because teachers were training. Scrimmage was canceled tomorrow and on Monday. They already canceled school for next Tuesday.
@Good Knight posted:I don't want to hear your problems! For the last 3 weeks it has first rained, then froze, then snowed. My snowblower will no longer throw over the drifts and it is 5 below zero.
Scrimmage cancelled? I could sleep outside if it were 36 degrees.
LOL! I remember suffering through -25 F weather in Denver over 30 years ago. When temperature got up to freezing (32 F) it felt like a summer heat wave. 
I won't share what the weather is here.
Aloha, Smoke
Too funny. I spent 4 years in Hawaii in the ARMY> the locals would put on a parka with shorts and flip flops if it got to 60.
I was once in Thunder Bay Ontario for a week on business in February. We landed in a three foot snow storm. I asked if anything would be open the next day. The answer: Why not?
The next night I discovered where F and C meet (-44). With the windchill it was -80 F. At about 11pm I decided to walk across the hotel parking lot to Hortons for a coffee and donut snack. I got about fifty feet out the door and ran back.
I drove the car across the parking lot and kept it running while I was in Hortons for an hour. The car was still cold when I came out.
It’s usually clear and sunny after a storm. The next three days was -15 and sunny. With no wind it seemed warm.
Current cold snap in Aloha Land:
Yes, Virginia, those white blobs are made of snow. Recent lows (61 F) in Honolulu have locals wearing hooded down parkas and bunny boots.
Actually, wish you were here!
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Don't cha?
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Used to be a ARMY recreation center there during Vietnam.
@RJM posted:The car was still cold when I came out.It’s usually clear and sunny after a storm. The next three days was -15 and sunny. With no wind it seemed warm.
During the same cold sub zero spell in Denver, I had to change my morning routine. Instead of fixing breakfast and then starting the car and heading to work, I would go out, start the car and go back inside to eat breakfast. You prayed the car would start on the first try as a 2nd try was probably not going to succeed. Despite letting the car run for 20-30 minutes, it was always cold though it was slightly warmer than the ambient -35 F temperature.
You know it's cold when the moisture from your breath freezes on your mustache or upper lip.
@smokeminside posted:Current cold snap in Aloha Land:
Yes, Virginia, those white blobs are made of snow. Recent lows (61 F) in Honolulu have locals wearing hooded down parkas and bunny boots.
Actually, wish you were here!
!
Don't cha?
When are they installing the "dislike" button? I am fighting frostbite as I type this
@FoxDad posted:During the same cold sub zero spell in Denver, I had to change my morning routine. Instead of fixing breakfast and then starting the car and heading to work, I would go out, start the car and go back inside to eat breakfast. You prayed the car would start on the first try as a 2nd try was probably not going to succeed. Despite letting the car run for 20-30 minutes, it was always cold though it was slightly warmer than the ambient -35 F temperature.
You know it's cold when the moisture from your breath freezes on your mustache or upper lip.
Another version is having a ski lodge rental at Sugarloaf (Kingfield ME) with -80 windchill. We were checked for frostbite in line at the chair. Every time we came down we went in the lodge for a shot. The thing is alcohol doesn’t make you warm. It makes you oblivious to the cold.
Needless to say there weren’t lift lines that day. With a vertical drop of almost 3,000 feet we figured five runs and five shots was enough. I’ve never been a fan of skiing buzzed.
We are not equipped for this in Texas. All flights cancelled. Roads shut down and neighborhoods running out of propane. Roads too bad to refill it and more ice coming. Gonna be a long couple days.
baseballhs Years a go I drove from OK City to Panhandle. The ice was so thick you did not need to steer your car, it just followed the ruts.
So I fully understand Texas not being equipped. Enjoy.
I'll take 20" of snow over 0.25" of ice any time. At least you can "see" the snow.
It took me over 4 hours to travel about 55 miles in an ice storm (commuting home from work) many years ago. About ended up in the ditch about 10 times, but was fortunate not to.
Nobody is truly prepared for ice. Snow, yes. Ice, no.
Years ago I was driving interstate 80 about 75 mph. The semi in front of us slowly slid onto its side and down the highway and into the median.
I pulled over to help and fell flat on my behind. Scary stuff.
Got the driver out and drove on. Very slowly.
My son and his friends are in the pool as I’m reading this.
@baseballhs posted:We are not equipped for this in Texas. All flights cancelled. Roads shut down and neighborhoods running out of propane. Roads too bad to refill it and more ice coming. Gonna be a long couple days.
Took my son to his pitching coach early this morning and it was crazy to see all the people lined up at hardware stores and anywhere that had propane filling stations. There was even a line of cars lined up at a farm supply place that has a parking lot gate. That store never opened. Those people in those cars pretty much wasted their time away this morning.
Since all school activities are canceled until at least Wednesday, went to our showcase team's facility after pitching lessons to get some BP in. Pulled up and there was a sign on the door that the facility was closed until Wednesday. Doh! Looks like it is going to be tee work in a cold garage the next couple of days.
My wife's flight landed at 3:30pm at Hobby. Apparently that was the last wave of flights allowed to land. All other incoming flights were canceled.
Like you said, it is going to be a long couple of days. Stay safe everyone.
@TerribleBPthrower posted:My son and his friends are in the pool as I’m reading this.
I am pressing the imaginary "dislike" button again
I recall Georgia went through this several years ago.
They just said rolling blackouts could start as early as tonight. Good times.
Stay safe everyone.
When I was growing up in NC, they closed the whole city even for freezing rain, because they had almost no equipment to deal with the roads. I didn't drive on ice or snow until I was 27. I remember taking the driver's test at 16, there was a question about what you do if you start to skid on ice - I had no idea what "steer in the direction of the skid" even meant.
I was stationed at Ft Benning Ga years ago. I rode my motorcycle to work. The building was locked and the base closed because of weather.
In IOWA we call it frost for God's sake!
@anotherparent posted:Stay safe everyone.
When I was growing up in NC, they closed the whole city even for freezing rain, because they had almost no equipment to deal with the roads. I didn't drive on ice or snow until I was 27. I remember taking the driver's test at 16, there was a question about what you do if you start to skid on ice - I had no idea what "steer in the direction of the skid" even meant.
Geez! It was snowing when I took my license road test.
When I moved to Southern CA I did a 360 in the first rainstorm. I was lucky I didn’t collide with another car. Oil had accumulated on the road for months.
@FoxDad posted:You prayed the car would start on the first try as a 2nd try was probably not going to succeed.
Two words: tank heaters.
@FoxDad posted:You know it's cold when the moisture from your breath freezes on your mustache or upper lip.
You know it’s cold when you can feel the nerves in each of your teeth as you breathe in.
@RJM posted:The next night I discovered where F and C meet (-44).
-40
-34 at our cabin in Minnesota. Thought we would be good in NOLA, but freezing rain and crazy drivers.
@smokeminside posted:Current cold snap in Aloha Land:
Yes, Virginia, those white blobs are made of snow. Recent lows (61 F) in Honolulu have locals wearing hooded down parkas and bunny boots.
Actually, wish you were here!
!
Don't cha?
You should have asked permission before you used my photo. I wonder if I still have that shirt?!?
My youngest son used to make money driving kids around in NC during the snow (he was used to NH - so the 1-2" of snow was normal). Still yes, the ice is the worst - I've seen 4 wheel drive trucks figure out the hard way that it only means all 4 wheels are going in the same direction... one guy was "flying past" me at maybe 20MPH hit the ice from where hiway on-ramp meets highway, spun 360, then decided he'd get in line with the rest of us crawling at 5-10MPH. That was a 30 mile and 4+ hour trip *pre* cell phone (I think most of us are old enough to remember those good old days ;-)).
Too soon or don't go there? So much for global warming <sorry>
Hope everyone in Texas is keeping warm somehow. Read over 4 million without power and it is bitter cold with snow.
Stay safe!