jim wrote:I just got back from an errand and I believe that. My god is it cold. This would be shockingly cold for January. This is car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you don't have your coat with you then you die cold.
It's way abnormal up here. If you're in STL, my neighbor was down there a couple weeks ago for work, came back saying "Man, it was 28 and sunny, it was like being at the beach."
Our average snowfall is 38 inches. We've had 67.4 inches this year.
We've had 22 days below zero. The record, from 129 years ago, is 25 days.
It's now the third-coldest and third-snowiest (both different things, and the first time they've happened together I think) winter in history.
It's way abnormal up here. If you're in STL, my neighbor was down there a couple weeks ago for work, came back saying "Man, it was 28 and sunny, it was like being at the beach."
Our average snowfall is 38 inches. We've had 67.4 inches this year.
We've had 22 days below zero. The record, from 129 years ago, is 25 days.
It's now the third-coldest and third-snowiest (both different things, and the first time they've happened together I think) winter in history.
It's awful.
It will all average out. Some winter's are harsher...some are milder.
All time lowest march temp ever. The only way to average this out acceptably would be to have October reapeat its w eather for November and December next year.
It's way abnormal up here. If you're in STL, my neighbor was down there a couple weeks ago for work, came back saying "Man, it was 28 and sunny, it was like being at the beach."
Our average snowfall is 38 inches. We've had 67.4 inches this year.
We've had 22 days below zero. The record, from 129 years ago, is 25 days.
It's now the third-coldest and third-snowiest (both different things, and the first time they've happened together I think) winter in history.
It's awful.
It will all average out. Some winter's are harsher...some are milder.
I don't know where thirds is getting his numbers but he's a little light on the snow being reported at the airports. I did hear that this is the worst winter ever here on the "Misery Index", which combines the cold and snow. As mentioned it's been cold, it's been snowy, but not both at the same time quite like this.
We dodges snowmaggeden this weekend. Listening to the news you'd have thought the end of the world was coming with 8-10 inches of snow. Even though we've gotten 8-10 inches of snow two other times this winter and managed to survive it.
We ended up with about 4 inches. I didn't even shovel it. [expletive] it, it's gonna be 50 by the weekend. This [expletive] needs to go away though, I want to plant some corn already.
I wonder how much extra time winter costs me. I have a routine in the morning of going to the gym, and I shower there. So I have to pack my work clothes in a bag, and that entire process just takes longer than in the summer. Summer it's shorts, t-shirt, and sandals in the bag and I'm off. Winter it's just gobs of clothes that are bulky, plus shoes. Then I have to put a coat and hat and gloves on ... it just adds up. And then the probability of not having something goes up exponentially with each item you add. So forgetting socks, or my phone (which is my music player which really pisses me off), or my wallet, or my underwear, or ... very common in the winter. Of course you get to the gym and you have take all the clothes off that you had to put on to prevent frostbite, and then you have to shower and put a gob of clothes on plus the coat and everything .. well stuff gets left at the gym. Same deal, an exponential increase with each item added.
Those costs are but an annoyance compared to what the following costs:
Salt
Salt/plow trucks
Crews for trucks
Repair to roadways from winter
Washing salt off car
Time spent shoveling
And possibly:
Increased travel times
Increased accidents raise premiums across the board
Increased risk of damage to property (home and vehicle)
More expensive infrastructure to build.
Etc.
Road repair is going to be brutal this year. I don't remember the roads having this many pot holes in them. Of course there is no money for that sort of thing so they won't really fix them.
