We had a fundraiser for my boyfriend’s mayoral campaign last night in my garage, and it was so cold (19 FUCKING DEGREES) we just kept the keg outside. So every time I’d go out for more beer, there’d be twenty or thirty smokers out there. Goddamn, I can’t imagine loving anything as much as those morons loved smoking. 19 degrees!
At 7:30 at night, on January 20, it is 75F in the house.
I have turned on the air conditioner.
Eat sh…snow and…er, well, eat snow.
Ah yes, carnivorousplant. I have moved into the barefoot part of my year here in January; I never even put on shoes to take the kids to the bus this morning. We’ve officially shed the jackets and the kids got off the bus yesterday and asked if the pool was open yet and this morning they were mad because I haven’t gotten their short sleeved uniforms back out yet.
Sweet.
Here in Iowa we got anywhere from 1/2 inch to a full inch of ice on everything. There are some towns that are completely without power, have been for 2 days, and will be for like 2 more days. Now its supposed to fucking rain on Saturday! Hopefully the weather forecasts are exaggerating, but they are talking possibility of floods cause there’s nowhere for the water to go. Its awesome. And then snow on Sunday/Monday and again Wednesday.
Fucking quit already! :mad:
See, this is why you should allow us our small gloating moments. The chinook has left town; it’s -9ºC this morning (15F), going to a high of -8.
ETA: We went to see Craig Ferguson live last Wednesday, and he and one of his opening comedians starting with how freaking COLD it is here. It was +3ºC that day (40F), which by our standards is a beautiful day in January. I went for a walk in the sunshine earlier in the day. All I could think was that if they had come here in December when it was -30ºC (-25F), they would have died.
Yeah Michigan has been strangely mild this year. I guess the lakes are forming some kind of bubble or something wierd. Everytime I look at a national map east, west, and south of here are much colder. I don’t think the temperature ever got below 20 or above 27 between Dec 15 and Jan 15, but since then it’s been dancing higher , usually above freezing most of the day.
P.S.
Holy crap, checking my weather forecaster it’s going to be 46 on Sunday… In January… In Michigan 
I feel so cheap…
I’m about 50 miles north of Otternell and we didn’t get as much ice – no damage or power outages that I’ve heard of anyway.
The trees and power lines do have a little bit of ice on them though, maybe from condensation (it’s still sorta foggy), and it’s so cool to listen to the ice chunks falling from the trees, and to watch the ice fall from the power lines – it falls in sort of a long tube shape.
I do hate winter. I used to poke fun at snowbirds but the older I get, the better it looks, moving south.
Oh yeah. I have already pre-emptively apologized to all the Arizona Dopers for when I start showing up for a couple of months in winter, like so many of my compatriots.
Anybody else want to launch ShelliBean’s canoe into hell? 
Get in line.
A bit further north than you, which also meant a bit colder than you. I think we were at 14 when you wrote this.
We actually had a white Christmas, as it started snowing Christmas Eve. It got warmer for a bit afterward, the snow started melting, and then the cold snap hit. During which, it we got freezing rain and eventually sleet.
There was no school until January 8, and it was still pretty slippery then.
And where are you, Shellibean?
Northeast Mississippi.
I don’t worry about it too much, I am sure we will have another surprise week of cold weather before spring.
I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for any untoward comments I have made about your noble state. Most probably concerning Mississippi and West Virginia being the only two states behind mine in most things.
:eek:
Yeah you really ought to eat those words. We’re number one in a lot of things. Things like morbid obesity rates, teen pregnancy, infant mortality… The list goes on and on.