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Dirty Harry

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Winter Woman said:
[video=youtube;051ddIvQ2hI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=051ddIvQ2hI[/video]

Now that is cold.
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I read a news story that parts of Ontario were actually colder than the surface of the moon. Hear about those people trapped in ice in the Antarctic? It was a expedition to see the effects of global warming and to see drowning polar bears...They got frozen and an ice breaker sent to help got stuck, and a third one who has the stranded passengers on board has been requested to stay in the area if they need to rescue the 2nd ice breaker. Global warming my ass! LOL
 
Winter Woman

Winter Woman

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Dirty Harry said:
I read a news story that parts of Ontario were actually colder than the surface of the moon. Hear about those people trapped in ice in the Antarctic? It was a expedition to see the effects of global warming and to see drowning polar bears...They got frozen and an ice breaker sent to help got stuck, and a third one who has the stranded passengers on board has been requested to stay in the area if they need to rescue the 2nd ice breaker. Global warming my ass! LOL
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That ice mantle they were going to explore and study was supposed to be having the large amounts of ice runoff. The studies are now saying that global warming is becoming a mini ice age. I'm old enough to remember winters like this. I remember snow drifts so deep that I couldn't look over them and that was in Metro Detroit.
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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Winter Woman said:
That ice mantle they were going to explore and study was supposed to be having the large amounts of ice runoff. The studies are now saying that global warming is becoming a mini ice age. I'm old enough to remember winters like this. I remember snow drifts so deep that I couldn't look over them and that was in Metro Detroit.
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Not picking a fight, but I have never really trusted my recollections of the weather from my childhood. I know what you are saying though - late 1960s, perhaps? I think that I remember things in a way that can't be trusted for scientific purposes. For example, we remember the extremes without recording the mean years. I wonder how much of it is just our perspective change as we grow older.

That's why I tend to rely on science people. While they are still pissing me off by lying about how magnets work, I figure they know their shit.
 
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Dirty Harry

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Unclebaldrick said:
Not picking a fight, but I have never really trusted my recollections of the weather from my childhood. I know what you are saying though - late 1960s, perhaps? I think that I remember things in a way that can't be trusted for scientific purposes. For example, we remember the extremes without recording the mean years. I wonder how much of it is just our perspective change as we grow older.

That's why I tend to rely on science people. While they are still pissing me off by lying about how magnets work, I figure they know their shit.
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Meteorology and weather forecasting is science, which has less than a 50% accuracy...but people in that position keep their high paying jobs. Do you know any other career where you can be wrong 50% of the time and keep it? Medical doctors can't pull that stunt off. The fact is the earth and weather patterns are beyond mans comprehension even with super computers. We have not been on the planet making recordings long enough to have a clue compared to the age of this rock. What we say is man made, like we are that powerful with the exception of poisoning the planet, may be natural climate changes that have been taking place before man even existed. There was an ice age before man and we did not cause it.
 
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Dirty Harry

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LOL it gets even more funny...but the moment someone gets hurt or dies, this is no longer funny and please remove all my posts on this...Was there a child's story where someone who touched something became stuck and everyone who came to help and touched anyone involved also became stuck?

WASHINGTON - The United States is sending a heavy icebreaker to help free a Russian ship and a Chinese icebreaker gripped by Antarctic ice, the Coast Guard said on Saturday.
The Polar Star is responding to a request for assistance from Australian authorities as well as from the Russian and Chinese governments, it said in a statement.
"The U.S. Coast Guard stands ready to respond to Australia's request," Coast Guard Pacific Area Commander Vice Admiral Paul Zukunft said. "Our highest priority is safety of life at sea, which is why we are assisting in breaking a navigational path for both of these vessels."
A Chinese icebreaker that helped rescue 52 passengers from a Russian ship stranded in Antarctic ice found itself stuck in heavy ice on Friday.
The Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, ferried the passengers from the stranded Russian ship to an Australian icebreaker late on Thursday. It now had concerns about its own ability to move through heavy ice, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.
The Russian-owned research ship left New Zealand on Nov. 28 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of an Antarctic journey led by Australian explorer Douglas Mawson.
It became trapped on Christmas Eve, 100 nautical miles east of French Antarctic station Dumont d'Urville and about 1,500 nautical miles south of Tasmania.
During their time on the ice, passengers amused themselves with movies, classes in knot tying, languages, yoga and photography, and rang in the New Year with dinner, drinks and a song their adventure.
The Polar Star is 399 feet long with a maximum speed of 18 knots. It can continuously break 6 feet of ice at three knots, and can break 21 feet of ice backing and ramming, the Coast Guard said.
The cutter is cutting short its planned stop in Sydney to help with the mission.
 
Someacdude

Someacdude

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Winter Woman said:
That ice mantle they were going to explore and study was supposed to be having the large amounts of ice runoff. The studies are now saying that global warming is becoming a mini ice age. I'm old enough to remember winters like this. I remember snow drifts so deep that I couldn't look over them and that was in Metro Detroit.
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1978? I was in Indiana , we didnt leave the farm for a week.
 
Winter Woman

Winter Woman

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My grannie if she was alive would be about 120, no kidding, was of Indian blood and told us of a 10, 30 and 50 cycle to the lakes. And that every once and awhile they will occur at the same time. I do remember the flooding of the Lake St. Clair too, I was a little one but I remember being very afraid.

Then the Army Corp of Engineers started playing with drudging the St Clair River and the Detroit River for larger and larger ships and the cycles haven't been the same.
 
Someacdude

Someacdude

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Winter Woman said:
My grannie if she was alive would be about 120, no kidding, was of Indian blood and told us of a 10, 30 and 50 cycle to the lakes. And that every once and awhile they will occur at the same time. I do remember the flooding of the Lake St. Clair too, I was a little one but I remember being very afraid.

Then the Army Corp of Engineers started playing with drudging the St Clair River and the Detroit River for larger and larger ships and the cycles haven't been the same.
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I remember when the ohio river froze over in 77 . I was 12 but some of the young long hairs walked across to kentucky and back.
http://blogs.courier-journal.com/watchdogearth/2013/01/05/back-in-the-day-the-ohio-river-froze-over/
 
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