Sundancer said:
Oldtimer said:
Well we went from 40 degrees at 4PM yesterday- and Chinook type winds-- to 4 Below right now.... :shock: The predicted high for today is around 0 and low for tonight is 10-15 Below...
No wonder my buddy Arther Itis doesn't like this country :wink:
I watched 3 weather experts on Lou Dobbs show last night- and they say because of the normal longterm galactic positioning--and the positioning of the sun to the earth- they believe we are entering a 2-3 decade long cycle of a mini ice age- which will cool temps and change weather patterns around the world...
Many I've spoken to locally are commenting how this winter is just reminiscent of the winters we used to get thru the end of the 60's and all the 70's...
Phoenix beckons me- but there are too dang many people...[/quote]
My parents go down there. They love it. But then they are older! They love to call when they have watched the weather reports and know that it is -15 here with wind and snow and they are sitting in the shade in 75 degree weather and then in a real inquisitive voice ask how the weather is here :twisted: Last night they called to tell me that they had bought a place and wouldn't come around these parts until April. It makes it harder to deal with this weather when you know first hand that relief is just a 3 hour plane ride away.....oh yeah......all those cattle that need care
Yeah-we have quite a few Snowbirds around here-- some of the wheat farmers that don't have cattle anymore - a lot of the retired folks--altho that thinned out this year with so many's retirements getting blew down the tubes in the ecomomic collapse
...They been trying for last few years to get me to go down- but I hate populated areas, don't know what I'd do without the cows, horses, and dogs-- and have a wife thats a dedicated health professional and I think will still be working and getting called back to the hospital til she dies....
This poem I got in an e-mail sums it up:
WINTER Poem
It's winter in Montana
And the gentle breezes blow
Seventy miles an hour
At thirty-five below.
Oh, how I love Montana
When the snow's up to your butt
You take a breath of winter
And your nose gets frozen shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful
So I guess I'll hang around
I could never leave Montana
I'm frozen to the ground!
:x
