Neanderpundit

Sunday 21 Jan 2007

It’s snowing. It’s thirty degrees.

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15 Responses to “It’s snowing. It’s thirty degrees.”

1. on 21 Jan 2007 at 5:36 pm   dick
   
   

   I agree.

2. on 21 Jan 2007 at 6:51 pm   Chris Byrne
   
   

   Uh hell, if you dont just take a minute outside to look up at gods greatest decoration of this earth, on his day, you arent much of a person.

3. on 22 Jan 2007 at 7:36 am   Tammi
   
   

   Ha! Even I can do that!

4. on 22 Jan 2007 at 11:44 am   Nathan
   
   

   You realize of course that it’s against the law to leave the nozzle unattended while fueling the vehicle.

   It’s against good common sense, too, but that’s beside the point.

5. on 22 Jan 2007 at 12:02 pm   BobG
   
   

   Wish it would get that warm around here; it’s 10:00 AM and 13 degrees. If we’re lucky it might get up to the mid twenties.

6. on 22 Jan 2007 at 12:58 pm   Mark
   
   

   Just this morning I was gassing up the car and I quit at 1/2 a tank because it was too damned cold outside.

   I’m a pussy and proud of it.

7. on 22 Jan 2007 at 4:26 pm   Harvey
   
   

   Just wondering what particular event inspired this post.

   Although I suppose I can probably guess :-)

8. on 22 Jan 2007 at 4:43 pm   Liz
   
   

   LOL! Last coldsnap we had was around -30 or so for a week or two. When it got back up to zero, guys were strolling around in teeshirts. Guess it’s all relative…

9. on 22 Jan 2007 at 5:51 pm   Rick C
   
   

   I spent a winter in Green Bay two years ago. No, gasp, it was almost 3 now. Got down to 5 below a few times, and that’s before the wind chill.

10. on 22 Jan 2007 at 9:17 pm   mts
    
    

    They ought to take those hold-open widgets off of the pumps. The throughput is high enough now that you’re done in a couple of minutes anyway. Pay at the pump, and the whole job, boom to zoom, is done in under three minutes.

    Anyway, I’m still taking off the coat before getting in the car, since it’ll warm up in a few anyway, so why have the quilted coat on like a human twinkie if I don’t need to.

    And people are huddling while fueling. Wow. I remember fueling next to a woman I knew who was still dressed from indoor soccer, coat on but still in shorts and knee high socks, all still dripping wet, filling the tank in ten degree weather.

    I set the thermostat to 62 nights, 56 days, but roast when I go to my aunt’s 78 degree house.

11. on 22 Jan 2007 at 9:41 pm   og
    
    

    jesus, 78? that would kill me.

12. on 22 Jan 2007 at 9:43 pm   PaulB
    
    

    Too much frost bite to the face. Temp below 30 and wind over twenty per and I’m in the car. Nothing left to prove so I don’t try. I might make another 13 with that attitude and the get the son out of the house.

    Uggh

13. on 23 Jan 2007 at 10:24 am   graumagus
    
    

    Eh. I have enough facial hair that unless the windchill is around -30 I’m fine.

    Have to have a hat though. The baldness lets the heat out way too quick :)

14. on 23 Jan 2007 at 11:10 am   Nathan
    
    

    68 in the winter, 72 in the summer (just to save money). And 64 at night in the winter. Before I got married I kept it even lower in the winter.

    Winter makes Sally crazy, but even in the summer she complains. She’s never warm enough, partly because she works in a place (therapy pool) where the air is 85 degrees all day, and the pool is 89. I go over there and damn near expire from heat exhaustion within 5 minutes…

15. on 26 Jan 2007 at 5:57 pm   Rick C
    
    

    I like the hold-opens because I can wash my rear window while the gas pumps. I don’t get back in the car.

    I once saw the aftermath of a guy getting in a van to pump gas into a gas can in the van. Yes, he blew up his van and the pump. Luckily for him, he wasn’t seriously injured.

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