The weather can't make up its mind...

[ThatGuy]

Today, the high in Knoxville was 75 degrees. That shattered the previous record high by a whopping six degrees.

This weekend, it will not break into the 40s and lows may very well be down in the teens.

I like warm weather. I like cold weather during November and December because the season doesn't feel right without it. I don't like the two being mixed together so haphazardly. WTF, Mother Nature?

[omaha_red]

it's made up it's mind in omaha..



it's cold.

[JohnDoolittle]

So far in Central Missouri we have had some ice, but not the horrible, damaging kind we had 5 years ago. Or Springfield had last year. They don't get out in the rural areas until they restore all the power to the bigger towns. I think it was 10 days without power and I had to show them the tree on a power line that kept us blacked out the last 3 days of our outage. They had restored power within one hour after I pointed out the problem. Lost everything from the freezer and fridge. House smelled like kerosene heater, but no other damage.

[Leroy]

How cold was it? Couldn't you have put your food outside in a cooler, or do we just do that in the great white north?

[ThatGuy]

So far in Central Missouri we have had some ice, but not the horrible, damaging kind we had 5 years ago. Or Springfield had last year. They don't get out in the rural areas until they restore all the power to the bigger towns. I think it was 10 days without power and I had to show them the tree on a power line that kept us blacked out the last 3 days of our outage. They had restored power within one hour after I pointed out the problem. Lost everything from the freezer and fridge. House smelled like kerosene heater, but no other damage.

Man, I can't even imagine going through that. I've been through whole nights and days without power, but never during the winter and never for ten days at a time. Sheesh. Lots of relatives had stories to tell when we met up over the summer - most of them live in Missouri.