I just can’t stand when they throw a ton of salt down around here when we get a quarter inch of snow. Drives me nuts, I love to drive in the snow but not when there’s salt everywhere. I keep my winter truck 1990 Toyota 4x4 coated with woolwax to keep the rust at bay but it’s definitely a pain in the butt.
Polar Vortex Coming
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We’re headed to 0 F tonight. I’ll be giving that 4 year old Everstart a try in the morning. It tests at 12.1V.
A good test for any polar vortex is to freeze Dallas. Done deal. Houston is supposed to freeze on Thursday. 
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There was a report that ALL of Canada would be below freezing (32°F or 0°C). That is rare!
Florida need not apply...but, Hey!, we ain’t got no quarantine!! 
Heat gets boring down here...
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They have moved us down to 7F … say goodbye to these and others at my place
Map is fairly accurate. I'm east of the 7F in east Washington, its 9:30pm its 6F, it was 0 this morning, no temperature at all. It's time to throw some wood in the stove.
It’s -10 F at my place this morning. Temps will be working upwards now and the cold air from Canada is dissipating. Yahoo!
Here is a souvenir of the 2021 Polar Vortex. The vast majority of the USA saw freezing temps. The Canadian prairies had a lot of -35 to -39 F temps with a few cities at -40 ( F or C, take your pick ).
Looks like there is a Polar Vortex developing. Get ready for some cold weather.
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Have you ever noticed that this is not really a newsworthy event..... until that polar vortex hits the east coast and/or Florida?Looks like there is a Polar Vortex developing. Get ready for some cold weather.
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News events are relative. Winter is composed of specific meteorological happenings that last only a specific amount of time. Lots of people have experienced something in this last week and early next week that might happen only once per year. Houston is forecast to have a 24 hour stretch of freezing weather on Monday. That’s newsworthy.
Next thing you know, the media will breathlessly report that Texas is hot in August!
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I remember the winter of 1983. I was 14. It had been in the lower teens for a couple of weeks. We'd gone down to the Rockport/Port Aransas area where my aunt, uncle,and cousins live. All the palm trees had froze, all ponds were completely frozen over, and the ocean at Rockport's beach was frozen way out where you could see the waves crashing on the ice. It was a trip!! We had so much fun walking all around on the frozen ponds.
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Oh yeah … I was living in a split level lake house near Livingston … it was really built as a weekend spot …
It had a metal fireplace and other than that … plug in electrics. I bought a Kerosun heater that made a big difference.
When I’d get home from my outdoor job … I was always met by a complaint of how cold the house is … and go right back out the door for kerosene
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Want to talk about HOT. I remember on a family vacation when I was a kid. We went down to South Padre Island/Port Isabel. There was a bank on the island that had a tall tower with the time and temp. We were driving past it and it said 118!! I have no idea how accurate it was, but I remember it being so hot that if you stood on the asphalt in one place too long it would burn the bottoms of your feet through your tennis shoes!!
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