ziggy2b
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predicts a bad winter,If 8 cords got you through last year better have 16 this year???:jawdrop:
How on earth could it be worse than last year? Last year I brought in an extra cord just to be safe and ran out of wood anyway in early April.predicts a bad winter,If 8 cords got you through last year better have 16 this year???:jawdrop:
predicts a bad winter,If 8 cords got you through last year better have 16 this year???:jawdrop:
predicts a bad winter,If 8 cords got you through last year better have 16 this year???:jawdrop:
Link I found after reading this. Click on a region to get a detailed outlook.
http://www.almanac.com/weather/
The rebound to global warming is global cooling. Who's ready for winters like gramma and grandpa used to tell about ?
"The snow and ice were so deep you could iceskate over the tops of 5 wire fence rows the whole way into town ."
"Was so cold, your great-grandma had us wear mittens over our gloves to ride to town in the car."
"Winter lasted so long one year, I remember trying to plow and before I could finish a furrow it had already filled with blowing snow, in June"
"The oneroom schoolhouse was so cold you could hold paper on the end of a stick close to the wood stove and it would catch fire in just a bit of time. You didn't even have to touch it to it."
"The snow was blowing so hard we had to tie a rope from the barn to the house and walk along it to take care of the livestock we had left."
"We'd throw buckets of water on the windows to seal them up and keep the wind from coming through them. The water would be froze solid before it reached the ground."
These are in my dads's lifetime, growing up in Oklahoma in the 20's and 30's.
His dad grew up there before it was a state and had some to top dads. Especially the year the winter was so bad all the ponds froze solid, top to bottom. That has only been in the last 100 years.
And turn the clock back to the 1700s in New England and you read diary entries describing a little crust of ice developing by morning on a tankard of water on the bedside table. This was pre-woodstove and pre weatherwrap insulation. Nogged the walls with cornhusks, which were inferior insulation.
I forget the year but early New England settlers took a heavy toll when spring never came. They had 2 years of winter
I think the last "little iceage" lasted from the 1300's until the late 1850's in North America. That means it was going on during the Land Rush into Oklahoma and the Gold rush of 1848. I guess it was 1849 but the weather was so bad nobody could travel to California in '48.
One discussion brought up the idea that the Earth is an Ice Planet that experiences warming trends. Not quite sure on this one but there have been a lot of "ice ages" before recorded history. Or So some say.
I think I will go cut more wood this weekend. I hope I dont need it in April, again.
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