# Goddam weather **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 6, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371 "2015-03-06T17:13:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/1 "2015-03-06T17:13:36Z")
I wish the frickin’ Canadians would keep this cold crap up there where it belongs. I’m on a prescription med for my arthritis that I get delivered from a specialty pharmacy. It depresses the immune system, so when I came down with that ghodsawful case of the flu at Christmas, I stopped taking it. Then SWMBO got laid off and we lost the insurance coverage. By the time I got set up with new coverage, my arthritis was starting to hurt again. I just got told that the shipment that I was supposed to receive today is held up because of the winter storms, and it will be Wednesday before I can get it. Except that on Wednesday, we leave town for a week for a national tournament. So I had to reschedule delivery for nearly two weeks from now. Hopefully, things will have thawed out by then. :mad:☹ ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/2 "2015-03-06T17:39:12Z")
It’s a crypto-Arctic plot. I’m just a pup compared to you, Pops, but I’m glad I’m in the Pacific NW. My hands and knee hurt bad enough as it is when we get down into the 30s. I can’t imagine living in a cold climate. OTOH, there’s a little bit of a bright side: you can shake a cane and complain about your rheumatiz. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/3 "2015-03-06T17:48:51Z")
It’s all Obama’s fault. Why does he keep talking about ‘unseasonable weather’, and never mention Canada, where it’s coming from? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/4 "2015-03-06T18:56:36Z")
They seem to be able to keep it warm in Israel. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/5 "2015-03-06T19:13:35Z")
TELL me about it. Out here in southern California, we finally got above 68 degrees. Gotta get the air conditioner checked. - covers head, runs to avoid snowballs \* ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/6 "2015-03-06T19:29:51Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I wish the frickin’ Canadians would keep this cold crap up there where it belongs. I once had a US colleague chuckle because he was up here and heard that a cold front had moved in from Siberia. The weather is always someone else’s fault, he mused. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/7 "2015-03-06T19:32:34Z")
Obama’s fault? Maybe it’s Stephen Harper’s fault. (If any of the non-Canadians on this board know who that is.) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/8 "2015-03-06T19:35:20Z")
Well, it’s snowing down in Texas All of the telephone lines are down ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/9 "2015-03-06T23:49:49Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > TELL me about it. > > Out here in southern California, we finally got above 68 degrees. Gotta get the air conditioner checked. > > - covers head, runs to avoid snowballs \* Who you kidding. It’s friggen 80 degrees right now. Sunny, warm and not a chance of a snow ball surviving long enough to hit you. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/10 "2015-03-07T00:30:30Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Who you kidding. It’s friggen 80 degrees right now. Sunny, warm and not a chance of a snow ball surviving long enough to hit you. Yes! I’m in the office in Burbank. Had to take off the windbreaker. Whew! 🙂 Just to be fair, I was born in Illinois in 1970, raised near Philadelphia from '77-'95, lived in Boston, MA from '95-'98-- I am DIVORCED from snow. Period. I love explaining to L.A. natives how I got pulled over for not brushing the roof of my car off while driving to school, which is a potential hazard. (It could fly off and blind the driver behind me, jamming their wipers) They think I’m kidding, no I’m not. I LOVE four seasons, and I love a fresh snowfall, but this is nuts this year all around. From Texas to Michigan to New England to Mid-Atlantic, it’s freaking cold and people are buried in all the white shit. Hell, my parents (still on East Coast) claim they have become hermits and are doing just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/11 "2015-03-07T01:04:56Z")
Damn, it’s only 72 degrees at 5 PM up here in Sacramento. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/12 "2015-03-07T01:23:40Z")
I don’t think it is Obama’s or Harper’s fault, I am pinning this bullshit on Algore. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/13 "2015-03-07T02:03:46Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I wish the frickin’ Canadians would keep this cold crap up there where it belongs. > > I’m on a prescription med for my arthritis that I get delivered from a specialty pharmacy. It depresses the immune system, so when I came down with that ghodsawful case of the flu at Christmas, I stopped taking it. Then SWMBO got laid off and we lost the insurance coverage. By the time I got set up with new coverage, my arthritis was starting to hurt again. > > Hopefully, things will have thawed out by then. :mad:☹ 74 in the Bay Area, and it is supposed to get warm tomorrow. I understand Rick Perry is thinking about moving here for the weather. Our news anchors tell us not to rub it in, but I’ll make an exception for Texans. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/14 "2015-03-07T02:13:46Z")
I think there’s only been one day in 2015 where it’s been above 0 C here. Next week, beginning on Monday, we have 5 days where the daytime temperature will be above 0. It will feel like shorts weather! Coldest February in recorded history in Ottawa. The longest number of consecutive days that the [Rideau Cana](http://blog.navut.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Rideau-Canal-Skateway-Winter1.jpg)l has been open for skating. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/15 "2015-03-07T10:21:09Z")
OP: You live in Houston? You’re not getting any sympathy from me. And even you guys in Canada: Ever hear of “lake effect”? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/16 "2015-03-07T21:57:26Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > . . . Out here in southern California, we finally got above 68 degrees. . . . Yeah, but we’re gonna pay for it come July and August! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/17 "2015-03-07T22:47:01Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > OP: You live in Houston? You’re not getting any sympathy from me. And even you guys in Canada: Ever hear of “lake effect”? What makes you think we’ve never heard of lake effect? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/18 "2015-03-07T23:24:12Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Well, it’s snowing down in Texas > All of the telephone lines are down _and if it snows that stretch down south won’t ever stand the strain…_ ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/19 "2015-03-08T02:54:28Z")
Anchorage had to truck in snow for the opening of the Iditarod. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371/20 "2015-03-08T04:21:53Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > TELL me about it. > > Out here in southern California, we finally got above 68 degrees. Gotta get the air conditioner checked. > > - covers head, runs to avoid snowballs \* We Floridians pity your frigid plight. 😃 Seriously, though, man, we haven’t had so much as a frost or freeze in Tampa in three or four years now. That’s worrying. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-weather/714371.md?page=2)