If you can't handle it, Don't live there LOL!!!

[Anonymous]

Check out this story from CNN.

It never fails to make me laugh, how wimpy folks up in places like the NE Corridor can be about a day or two of true Arctic cold.


'Extremely dangerous' cold grips Northeast

Thursday, January 15, 2004 Posted: 2:39 PM EST (1939 GMT)

Alexandra Vega copes with frigid temperatures in Boston on Thursday.
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FORECAST WIND CHILLS
For Thursday night:
Caribou, Maine: -60°
Portland, Maine: -40°
Boston, Massachusetts: -40°
New York City: -20°
Source: CNN Weather Dept.

BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- The Northeastern United States faced more bitter cold and high winds Thursday, with forecasters warning of "extremely dangerous" wind chills as low as 45 degrees below zero in eastern Massachusetts.

"These values can produce frostbite in just 10 or 15 minutes," a National Weather Service advisory said. "If you don't have to travel or be outside late tonight or early tomorrow, then stay indoors."

In Maine, where projected highs ranged from below zero to the high single digits, Gov. John Baldacci declared a state of emergency in hopes of convincing federal highway regulators to allow longer driving hours for truckers carrying fuel oil.

"These conditions threaten public health and safety and endanger public property if fuel oil cannot be delivered to Maine homes and businesses," Baldacci's declaration said.

About 20 coffee-drinkers were crammed into a coffee shop in Portland, Maine, on Thursday morning, according to server Jamie Deering. "It's really cold, I mean, it's going down to 15 below at night," Deering said. "I didn't even take my trash out last night and my car is frozen."

Three inches of snow was expected on Thursday in Boston where the forecast high was 5 degrees. The city's largest homeless shelter, which provides 700 beds, was packed Wednesday night.

But one woman on a Boston street said area residents know how to deal with that type of weather: "Dress in layers, keep moving and just try to have that old, good New England character," she said.

Business was off Thursday at a Waffle House restaurant in Tewkesbury, Massachusetts, said cook Sandra Starke. "It's awful, very cold," she said. "We just got a dusting [of snow] but it's so cold nobody wants to come out."

Record daily low temperatures were recorded in Boston and in Providence, Rhode Island, on Wednesday, and forecasters expected the coldest portion of a wave of Arctic air to move across the region Thursday.

New Hampshire's Mount Washington Observatory, which boasts of having "The world's worst weather," recorded temperatures of 28 degrees below zero Fahrenheit on Thursday morning with a wind chill of 71 degrees below zero.

"It actually very wonderful to be up here, to just be able to experience the weather extremes here that Mother Nature throws at you," said meteorologist Tim Markle from a weather station on the mountain. "A lot of people don't like the cold, but we're loving it up here."

Bitter cold didn't appear to cool political spirits ahead of the January 27 New Hampshire primary. A standing-room-only crowd attended a Manchester rally for Democratic candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman on Thursday morning. A few hundred supporters attended a similar event Wednesday for Democratic candidate Wesley Clark. And Wednesday events in support of rivals Howard Dean and Sen. John Kerry also were well-attended, despite the weather.

Ernest Bostic shovels snow from a car Thursday in Poughkeepsie, New York.

New York is under a winter weather advisory and wind chill warning, and the city could see up to 6 inches of snow early in the day. Highs are forecast near 15 degrees, lows -- with the wind chill -- feeling like 15 to 30 degrees below zero.

A winter storm warning is in effect for Philadelphia, which could get 6 inches of snow. Temperatures were forecast to range from a high of 19 to a low of 5 degrees.

And snow up to three inches is expected to fall on Washington, D.C., Thursday, with high temperatures near 25 and lows around 18 degrees.

CNN's Adaora Udoji, Laura Bernardini and CNN.com writer Thom Patterson contributed to this report.



Like what James Deering said. He lamented that he didn't take his trash out and his car was frozen.

What a Laugh. Puhleese.

GIVE ME A BREAK!!! I'm from Virginia!!! It was -14 here on Jan 21 1985 with 30 mph winds!!! I didn't have a problem taking MY trash out, J.D.!!!
His car was frozen? Hey J.D., you're breaking my frickin' heart!!! Get a Block Warmer dude!!!! Man I live in the Heat Bubble in frickin' N VA and even I know that!!!!!

Man, you northerners need to either suck up your occasional "serious" Arctic cold wave, or do yourselves a big favor:

MOVE THE HELL SOUTH!!!!!!! Try British Guiana in South America for starters!!! That'll warm you up LOL LOL LOL!!! Think you can handle that?

Fifteen degrees below zero!!! Don't make me laugh!!! That ain't crap!!!!




-SIBERIAN CROSS POLAR EXPRESS JEB!!!!! BRING IT!!!!!!

[Chris the Weather Man]

LOL! JEB! And yes, in 1985, in was -14F here also!

[JQ Public]

it was -9 here. i was a frozen two year old i know that!

[isobar]

LOL Jeb
Actually, I think the wussy who didn't take out the trash is more the exception than the rule up there. After living in NH for 16 yrs, I found most of the people to be as brutal as the wx, more like in the following statement:

Bitter cold didn't appear to cool political spirits ahead of the January 27 New Hampshire primary. A standing-room-only crowd attended a Manchester rally for Democratic candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman on Thursday morning. A few hundred supporters attended a similar event Wednesday for Democratic candidate Wesley Clark. And Wednesday events in support of rivals Howard Dean and Sen. John Kerry also were well-attended, despite the weather.

[PTrackerLA]

I don't see how any warm blooded humans could enjoy -40 degree wind chills, Jeb you are very special lol.

[Anonymous]

I don't see how any warm blooded humans could enjoy -40 degree wind chills, Jeb you are very special lol.

Yup I am that indeed. The colder the better, the more snow the better. The more snow to shovel the better, the stronger the winds and the more drifting the better. Then I can enjoy my precious snow-filled winter jebwalk among the drifts.




-JEB

[Anonymous]

That goes both ways---
When i was in boot camp-Orlando in July/August...Many of the people from up north would pass out from the heat. And after their medical treatment and they were back in the company, the commanders would get in their faces and call them wimps (more colorful words used but u get the picture). I thought it was funny.

[StormCrazyIowan]

I can handle it, I just don't want to! And that is why I will move!

[WeatherGuide]

I totally agree.. yes... this cold is annoying (especially without snow).. but don't mean lady about it.. MOVE SOUTH. It really isn't that bad anyway.. if it's this cold down here.. imagine how cold it is in Canada

[jpp5862]

Jeb, have you ever thought about moving north? Your love for the cold and snow seems to make you a good fit for an area that gets colder temps and lots more snow.

[PTrackerLA]

Yeah Jeb as much as you fantasize about arctic conditions you really should check out Alaska as a new home.

[breeze]

LOL, Jeb could move to the North Pole and
be Santa's relief driver!

Really, I always worry about the elderly folks, freezing to death. Some can't afford the heating bill, so, they just try to bundle up, more. In temps
like -0°F and colder, you can't always find enough
extra clothes and blankets, on a limited budget.

[Chris the Weather Man]

Yeah, Older People, What the heck did they do, in Northern VT, -41.8F!! COLD!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Yeah Jeb as much as you fantasize about arctic conditions you really should check out Alaska as a new home.

That sounds great to me!! I'm thinking about the North Slope, or the Brooks Range!!!



-JEB