The Tulsa Forum by TulsaNow

I have been cold for almost two weeks now and heard that the temperature is going to be around zero on Thursday.

That is insane. I know we close schools and libraries for ice and snow, but do we close them for ridiculously freezing temperatures? I can't imagine having a kid wait for a bus on a day like that.

This global warming sucks.

Yes.

There are no hard and fast rules, but basically wherever I've lived, if the temperature drops to "ridiculous" levels and is downright life-threatening, schools will call a snow day. And they should.

In my case, where I grew up in bitterly cold central Illinois, an overnight low of 19-below was even too much for even the most hardened school superintendent to abide.

Lived in Rhinelander, WI.  School was open below zero.


(Also walked up hill both ways and ate sand.)

Too bad climate and weather are not the same thing. :P

Can't tell those 'Inhoffers' that...

Sorry Conan, not lumping you in that bunch cause I'm sure you're being partially sarcastic with your comment.

Brother, the school had us eating sand because they were able to expand their walls at a very cheap price, with all the concrete we were able to produce (I don't think I have to tell you exactly from which area of our body the concrete came from).

That's pipe-bursting cold, and it will especially hurt low-income and elderly in drafty homes who can barely afford to keep themselves (less their pipes) warm.

Yeah, it's all that warm air that's melting the arctic and drowning polar bears which is over us right now.

Look at it this way, might also mean better control of the insect population in the spring with a good hard week+ freeze.

Yeah Conan. Just because global "warming" hasn't existed in the past 10 years and that the temperatures around the world are presently crashing down (and we won't get into the recent e-mail issue) is no reason to poke fun at global warming.

The dude abides

You forgot "barefoot".

We wore sandals with tacks glued inside of them actually.

I wore my snow mobile suit to school on some of the worst days.  I wasn't alone in doing that. 90 degree below 0 windchill factors are not a good time.

It was so cold our words froze. We had to stand by the heater to hear what was being said.

Got any "your momma" jokes?

"Your momma is so fat, last time she wore a red dress all the kids yelled 'Hey, KoolAid!'"

It's the result of El Nino which also caused the unusually cold winter in 2000-2001 where snow was on the ground in Tulsa for over a month between mid-December and late-January.  It appears the weather pattern should finally return to 'normal' next week with high temps. in the low to mid 40's which is average for January in NE Oklahoma.  I imagine we'll see more snow periodically through March and then possibly an above average severe weather/tornado season in the spring.

December 16, 2008 schools were closed for ridiculous cold weather. How do I know this? Because that's the day some punk decided to break into our house and steal our stuff.  :'(

Your momma was so fat she broke her leg and gravy ran out.....

Ok Patric.
I wanna see that screenshot about August 3rd.  8)

Well Tulsa Public and Broken Arrow Schools have given in to the threat of bitter cold weather and closed for the rest of the week.
Dang Global warming !

I wonder if they figured out how much money would be saved not running the heaters in below zero weather?

Hopefully they leave the faucets dripping at the schools.

Water bill will go up.

Dripping faucets work when the water, drawn from below the frost line, is still warm enough not to freeze inside the pipes.  In a large unheated structure there is too much chance long pipe runs wont retain that ground heat and eventually freeze, so they will have to leave some heat on anyway.

This would be a nice weekend to sit back and catch up on a movie like "The Day After Tomorrow" or "Ice Station Zebra", think warm thoughts and pray our above-ground electrical system makes it through another winter.

(http://www.treehugger.com/new-york-the-day-after-tomorrow.jpg)

Am I cheering you up yet?
Something I stumbled across earlier:


Lets finally give Roland Emmerich some credit;  It's one of the most dramatic examples of climate change in Earth's history, and scientists now say it happened almost entirely in one year's time...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/01/abrupt-climate-change.html

Yeah it's cold but I can remember going to school when it was colder. 

Once when I was in school and it got this cold, the diesel fuel in the buses gelled up, so they had to cancel school.

Are you kidding?  I'm so old when I went to school, we had buses like on the Flintstones and we had to provide the power...barefoot no less  ;)

I'm not quite that old. Only the rural school districts still had foot powered buses when I was growing up. (I lived in town as a young lad)

When I worked at a ski resort, this was not cold.