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« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2010, 02:38:59 pm »

Got any "your momma" jokes?

"Your momma is so fat, last time she wore a red dress all the kids yelled 'Hey, KoolAid!'"
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« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2010, 02:48:12 pm »

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.
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« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2010, 03:56:25 pm »

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.  Cry
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« Reply #18 on: January 04, 2010, 04:13:41 pm »

Got any "your momma" jokes?

Your momma was so fat she broke her leg and gravy ran out.....
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« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2010, 05:29:34 pm »

Ok Patric.
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« Reply #20 on: January 06, 2010, 05:19:00 pm »

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 !
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« Reply #21 on: January 06, 2010, 06:42:15 pm »

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.
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« Reply #22 on: January 06, 2010, 07:01:52 pm »

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.
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« Reply #23 on: January 06, 2010, 08:38:00 pm »

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.

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.



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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
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« Reply #24 on: January 07, 2010, 10:46:04 am »

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

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« Reply #25 on: January 07, 2010, 12:24:07 pm »

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.
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« Reply #26 on: January 07, 2010, 01:09:54 pm »

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  Wink
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« Reply #27 on: January 07, 2010, 01:31:01 pm »

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  Wink
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)
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« Reply #28 on: January 07, 2010, 02:54:50 pm »

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