I think the lesson we can all learn from the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder is to be prepared ahead of time and not wait until you are in the middle of of a situation to do something.
You got that right. Back when Laura Ingalls Wilder was a child (and even when she was first married) the majority of the people in the USA had to raise and grow their own food. Whatever you had to purchase you would purchase long before it was wintertime and you would make sure you had enough to last for the entire winter. Don’t forget that you would also need to make sure you had plenty of firewood or coal to for cooking and to keep the section of the house the entire family is living in warm. One way they make sure that they would not run out of fuel is they shut off part of the house and only lived in a small section of the house. Of course it was also necessary to provide for your animals for the entire winter assuming you had livestock.
The summer in southern Texas is like 2-1/2 months of temps above 100 degrees every single day. but the extremely rare dusting of snow means hundreds of car fly off the road at 100 mph, as if they still have friction on the road! They have no skill at winter driving. (Or any other time for that matter)
Here in Middle Tennessee we average 4" per year which I know is nothing compared to the northern states or Canada but on Monday alone we got 8". The big difference down here is we have no infrastructure to deal with that kind of snowfall and subzero temperatures (-4°). We just don't have the systems to clear or remove the snow so as of today (Thursday January 18th) I've been snowed in since Sunday night. The bright side is I got to watch more of your videos...as well as Lawrence's. Lol🥶
We got freezing rain this afternoon in areas of Middle Tennessee so now we have an additional layer of ice. This is my first day off work this week, but I get to go out in it again tomorrow afternoon.
@@ObserverAmanda The freezing rain started here in Murfreesboro and the slush is going freeze tonight. I live on the outside of the city so all my surrounding roads are frozen.
Be mindful of wildlife and chuck some food out in the yard, as a glaze of ice can make usual foods unreachable. Even stuff like the can of grease that you can't put down the drain is basically suet and highly prized by birds in winter.
In the 1800s on the Great Plains during a blizzard people would stretch a rope between the house and the barn so they could find their way back to the house in the blinding wind and snow. People in 0 visibility blizzard conditions were known to have missed the house completely to wander onto the prairie and become lost and freeze to death.
I watch a show called life below zero, its about people from Alaska and their lives, one lady runs a gasoline filling station and she has a rope tied from her house to a place that runs her electricity, heating and internet , even though they are only a few feet from each other.
I live about 2 hours north of Laurence, and had to deal with this exact blizzard. I cleared my driveway before I went to work so I could get into my driveway when I came back home. When I got home, there was already 6 inches of snow piled up. We ended up getting about 14 inches of snow total, and that doesn't even include the snow we got earlier in the week. The snow plow drivers put salt down to help melt the snow, but when snow comes down as fast as it did, the salt doesn't really work that well. Because of this, the snow on the roads ended up turning into a slush which made it really difficult to drive in. We had approximately 35 hours straight of snow, which made it almost impossible to get all of the snow cleared in a timely manner. The part that sucked even more than the snow was the following day the temperatures plummeted into the negatives. All of that slushy snow ended up freezing to the road, and turning to ice which has made driving even more difficult. We have had about 6-7 days of driving on ice, as the temperatures didn't get above 0 degrees Fahrenheit until yesterday (Wednesday). We had 2 consecutive days where the temperature never left the negatives, and we had temps as cold as -13 Fahrenheit with windchills as low as -35 Fahrenheit. I had to shovel in those temps, and I literally couldn't feel my face, hands, or feet after about 10 minutes of being in those temps.
I've lived in both Wisconsin and Alaska. And it's a very different kind of cold. With Alaska it's -20 and you are likely to just say, yep, it's cold. In Wisconsin it could be 20° warmer and you're frozen to the core.
@@aniE1869 I've definitely experienced that before! I have gone outside in a t-shirt when it was -10 out and it didn't feel that bad. I have also gone outside when it was about 20 degrees out, and felt like I was about to die because the cold went straight to my bones. You learn not to trust the thermometer or what the weather app says when you live in Wisconsin.
Got the same Blizzard that his Chicago on Friday here in North-East Wisconsin, ended up with around 14 inches, on top of the 4 or 5 inches we got from a smaller storm Tuesday/Wednesday and the one inch we got on Thursday. So a Lot of snow last week, this week has been artic air blowing in making it dangerously Cold. Today has been the warmest day so far at 14 degrees F, Tuesday was the coldest at 3 degrees F, and that's not including the Wind Chill which was making it feel as low as -40 degrees F. Thankfully unlike some no major power outages here.
I'm in southeastern WI. I actually list power for a day. I was lucky to get power back in a day. A lot of people still didn't have power on Monday because they couldn't keep up with the ongoing outages. They would restore some only to have others lose power. It was a real mess.
Just had -19F with windchills -45F. Also snow and winds up to 70mph. It was rough on the horses. Don't know if you are aware but the entire water supply to the western US depends on the snow fall in the Rocky Mountains.
In 1962 I had to deal with a 3 day blizzard. We got 36" of snow with winds over 50mph. Drifts were to the top of the 2nd story. Then the worst part was the -20F below with strong winds and trying to shovel snow in drifts that were higher than I was.
I love Lawrence! I survived 3 major snow events. One in 1965 when I was a kid in New York City, that dropped 6 feet of snow roughly 2 meters. 2 one in 1983 that dropped 17 inches of snow. 3. Super Storm Sandy that dropped 18 inches of snow then froze it with the wind chill factor and that's on top of the actual hurricane! There were others but these were the most memorable ones. I just had to check the snow amounts.
I lived in Colorado for many years and have been in blizzards/snow storms that'd curl your hair. In the Midwest now and every once in awhile it can get crazy here as well.
At my last military base the nights were minus 15 degrees F. That's 15 below zero. The high winds brought the wind chill down to -50 and -70 below zero. I was out walking, stopped for 20 seconds at an open pay phone (in the old days) and hung up the phone. I turned and heard a light crackling sound. One side of my body had a thin sheet of ice on it from the mist. For 41 days straight the temperature never got as high as freezing for even a minute. Two people who were used to living there died of exposure shoveling the snow off their front steps! And yet the Air Force base was fully operational. Period. Love your show.
And a week later it's in the low 40s and raining, melting away all the snow, but making the roads icy as all hell overnight and in the early morning. Roads get icy, ice melts, gets warmer, MORE ice and snow melt plus rain, all the water washes away the salt, drops below freezing overnight, roads get icy, repeat.
I left Germany in 1988 and their weather is so much like here in South Dakota but when I got home on leave it was -68 with windchill. It was cold and there was a lot of snow and mom lived out in the country and trees were sparse where she lived. Nothing to break it up
It's gorgeous... It's late at night, everything's covered in snow, it's almost as bright as day outside. sparkling reflections and moonlight. cozy by the fireplace. we're drunk and sentimental, its great.
I watched this video on Lost in the Pond the other day. I love his videos. And I love your reactions to his videos. I live in Seattle and we get rain in the winter...lots of rain. But when it turns to snow it does tend to close us down. The issue with Seattle is it is a very hilly city. Most of the time the snow is like what you were describing on your intro - a few inches and people drive no issues. But, if it gets more than a few inches and roads get covered it can be pretty bad. Last year or was it the year before (can't remember), we had snow that stuck around for a week and the roads turned to ice sheets at night. With the hills it pretty much kept most people at home. I can't imagine the midwest. at least it ain't hilly. In terms of weather - I hate wind the most, especially winter wind. And yes, his problems all started when he ordered Fillet-o=Fish. Ugh Karma said-nope you order that and now you must suffer white out conditions on your drive.
Depending on where you go, summer can be fairly harsh. The American south is imcredibly humid. A wet heat can be hard to adapt to if you're not used to it. You'll definitely want to check the average temperatures of the states you want to visit. I live in VA, and it's not unusual to experience temperatures over 90°F during the summer. We also have swinging temperatures. For example, this week we experienced 20° F temps, and next week we're expecting 60° days.
Modern Winters aren't as severe as when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s. However, they're not nearly as much fun as they were (for childhood me) since they now mean work (shoveling), and difficult traveling (getting to and from my job). That being said, the absolute worst Winter weather I've ever seen was "Ice Storm '98" (often referred to simply as "The Ice Storm". I think you may have reacted to a video about it. But it covered most of New England from into Canada, west into New York, and (I think) into Pennsylvania. Personally, we were left without electricity for about a month. I remember seeing one of the electrical workers who had written "don't ask" on his hard hat. Fortunately, we had a kerosene heater inside, and a gas grill outside (both of which came in handy for heating food and drink).
I'm from Wisconsin. If it's snowing, that means it's actually warmer than normal. We're having a winter heat wave right now at 40F. Everything's melting and weird lol and most of us are just sad and worried that the mosquitoes and ticks will be really bad this summer. We actually rely on the cold winters to keep our insect population under control. Because Wisconsin is pretty much a marsh where I live lol Yes! Basements are underground (duh) so sometimes they're warmer and easier to heat
We’ve been hit pretty hard in South Dakota. The cold was significant and the wind made it worse. The airport in Pierre, SD posted a windchill corrected temperature of -53 below.
Railroad companies have snowblowers they can use to clear tracks. -9° F? Balmy temps in Alaska, this time of year. In North Pole kids at school have no excuse to not go outside to play unless it's colder than -20°F which is -28.9°C. (Below 0° Fahrenheit the conversion difference become a bit redundant. Though -40° F is also -40° C) 🤷♂️
I’m going to keep saying it, y’all should check out Jackson State University Marching Band “SONIC BOOM OF THE SOUTH” I would recommend you watch the March In.
Definitely don’t come in the summer. Most of the USA gets incredibly hot or incredibly hot AND incredibly humid in the summer. You can’t handle the temperatures. Even people who are used to them regularly get heat stroke. Please visit the USA in the spring or autumn. Outside of that, cities act as insulators, so Chicago is actually warmer than the surrounding countryside. Much of the Midwest gets much colder, more regularly.
After the large snow in Utah, we turned State Street into a river in Salt Lake, to prevent flooding. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m75ajBfbgr0.htmlfeature=shared
Believe it or not the last blizzard we had in Florida (Yes. Florida), was in 1918. It stretched from Florida across the Gulf of Mexico into Texas as far as Dallas. There was also a blizzard in Florida in 1898. Records weren't kept much earlier than that, but we haven't had one since 1918. I have seen snow here in Fort Myers Florida on occasion but, that's only when I was roofing years ago if I was working 3 or more stories high on really cold, for Florida, days. We could see it falling but it melted before reaching the ground. However, in the winter of 1978 it did snow. Not alot but it was on the ground. Newspapers nationwide reported the event. The New York Times headlines read, "Snow in Miami." lol
You might not believe it but 40 years ago back in the '70s jersey used to be buried in the snow every winter. Very large snows. But no global warming is not a thing so that's why it doesn't happen anymore or is it or what?
We had a big blizzard in Michigan over the weekend. Not great for when you have to travel 150 miles north to a cousin's wedding. Turned a 2.5 hour trip into a 4.5 hour trip, and forced us to stay 2 nights up there when it was supposed to be a day trip.
I'm below you in Indiana. Not a lot of snow - until tonight - but it got down to -18 last weekend and it's stayed around -10 since then. Warmed up to 15 today just to dump a bunch of snow. And they never shut school down. Not even a delay yet. Insane. We'll see what happens tomorrow. Winter in the north 😅
@@davidcosta2244 I’m a little jealous… We live on a mountaintop in Buford/Laramie, Wyoming…and with the windchill, we have had several days well below freezing…and many below zero!! Brrrrrr 🥶❄️ PS…You are breaking my old heart…😢
I live in Rhode Island, not far from the ocean. For most winter storms, the relatively warmer air over the sea lessens the snowfall or changes it to rain. However, there's one type of storm where the snow is heaviest along the coast--the "nor'easter." Other storms come from the west, from inland. But a nor'easter comes from the southwest, along the coast. It's like a hurricane in the winter. Since warm air is capable of holding more moisture, when these storms get far enough north to reach freezing temperatures, epic snowfalls can result. Presumably due to climate change, we haven't had one of these blizzards in several years. Older folks here still talk about the "Blizzard of 1978," when I was 8 years old. The primitive weather-forecasting computers of the time predicted light snow during the early afternoon of a weekday. So, there was no thought of cancelling schools or issuing a travel advisory. Instead, 24-56 inches (61-142 cm) fell during 36 hours of high winds which caused zero-visibility and enormous snow drifts. Tens of thousands of adults and children spent the night wherever they were--workplaces, schools, shops, and other public venues lacking food and beds. Thousands of people abandoned their cars and walked to shelter--a church, a fire station, even the home of a stranger. Travel was impossible for days. The military had to fly in equipment to clear the roads. According to Wikipedia, there were 100 fatalities and 4500 injured. Today, we at least know when a storm this severe is coming. But people still die, like one year ago in Buffalo, New York
Spring ain't too bad, either. One of my teachers in grade school made a comment about how we live in a temperate zone. But some of our weather can be amongst the most INtemperant weather on the planet!
When the deep freeze came last weekend where I live in Northern Idaho got down to -15 with the wind chill of -40 winds were at 35 to 40 gusts no snow at that time, we had a snow storm warning yesterday and it actually dumped about 12 inches and more just in a 24 hour period. Stay warm everyone mother nature is having it her way this month here in US. The Beesleys love your videos. ❤😃
That’s crazy! I seriously can’t imagine. I had a client come in the other day and he said his daughter had -45° temperatures in Montana. Is that even possible? Was he mistaking the wind chill for temperature ?
@@Cricket2731 I seriously can’t imagine temperatures that cold! It’s been 5° here a few mornings this week and some schools were cancelled completely and some were delayed a few hours. Do kids in negative temperatures have to wait at bus stops? That sounds so miserable!
@@marieneu264 , are you talking F or C temperatures? Some places out in the country have little home-made bus shelters to keep the kids warm--they're enclosed & have a window so they can watch for the bus. Some even have bench seats!
December 8 - 6:00 PM It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow! December 9 We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a lovelier place in the whole world? Moving here was the best idea I've ever had! Shoveled for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snowplow came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again. What a perfect life! December 12 The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a disappointment! My neighbor tells me not to worry- we'll definitely have a white Christmas. No snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we'll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I'll never want to see snow again I don't think that's possible. Bob is such a nice man, I'm glad he's our neighbor. December 14 Snow, lovely snow! 8 inches last night. The temperature dropped to -20. The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. I didn't realize I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I'll certainly get back in shape this way. I wish l wouldn't huff and puff so. December 15 20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4x4 Blazer. Bought snow tires for the wife's car and 2 extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that's silly. We aren't in Alaska, after all. December 16 Ice storm this morning. Fell on my ass on the ice in the driveway putting down salt. Hurt like hell. The wife laughed for an hour, which I think was very cruel. December 17 Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere. Electricity was off for 5 hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should've bought a wood stove, but won't admit it to her. God I hate it when she's right. I can't believe I'm freezing to death in my own living room. December 20 Electricity's back on, but had another 14 inches of the damn stuff last night. More shoveling! Took all day. The damn snowplow came by twice. Tried to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they're too busy playing hockey. I think they're lying. Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower and they're out. Might have another shipment in March. I think they're lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me. I think he's lying. December 22 Bob was right about a white Christmas because 13 more inches of the white shit fell today, and it's so cold, it probably won't melt till August. Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel and then I had to piss. By the time I got undressed, pissed and dressed again. I was too tired to shovel. Tried to hire Bob who has a plow on his truck for the rest of the winter, but he says he's too busy. I think the asshole is lying. December 23 Only 2 inches of snow today And it warmed up to 0. The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What is she, nuts?!! Why didn't she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did but I think she's lying. December 24 6 inches - Snow packed so hard by snowplow, l broke the shovel. Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the son of a bitch who drives that snow plow, I'll drag him through the snow by his balls and beat him to death with my broken shovel. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over where I've just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was too busy watching for the damn snowplow. December 25 Merry freaking Christmas! 20 more inches of the damn slop tonight -Snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil. God, I hate the snow! Then the snowplow driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she's an idiot. If I have to watch "It's A Wonderful Life" one more time, I'm going to stuff her into the microwave. December 26 Still snowed in. Why the hell did I ever move here? It was all HER idea. She's really getting on my nerves. December 27 Temperature dropped to -30 and the pipes froze; plumber came after 14 hours of waiting for him, he only charged me $1,400 to replace all my pipes. December 28 Warmed up to above -20. Still snowed in. The BITCH is driving me crazy!!! December 29 10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could cave in. That's the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am? December 30 Roof caved in. I beat up the snow plow driver, and now he is suing me for a million dollars, not only the beating I gave him, but also for trying to shove the broken snow shovel up his ass. The wife went home to her mother. Nine more inches predicted. December 31 I set fire to what's left of the house. No more shoveling. January 8 Feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me. Why am I tied to the bed?
It's currently a much nicer 28°(-2.2C) here in Kansas but the highest it was over the weekend was -5(-20.5.) Hit -17 at one point. Keep in mind all of this is before wind. We have another arctic mass coming over the next few days but thankfully, it's not supposed to be as bad and we're supposed to be back to regular temps around freezing by Sunday.
There is a new type of storm that has been occurring in the midwestern states call a deracho. It is like a inland hurricane. Where I live in Iowa it has occurred twice in that many years. We had up to 120 mph straight line winds that lasted up to thirty minutes and covered areas across multiple states. And now we are having blizzards with up to 60 mph winds and back to back storms with maybe a day between the and accumulated snow up to a foot and that on top of an eighth to a quarter inch of ice. Then daytime high temps in the negative Fahrenheit ranges with lows down to -20s and wind chills to around negative fifties below zero. With the winds in the forty mph ranges it blows the snow around forming drifts to a couple of meters deep or more. I live out in the country where we see the worst of it because we're out in the open, but we are always prepared for bad weather to make it up to a week or longer before we start to need anything. Just have to tough it out till it's time to readjust for the extreme heat and weather of the warmer seasons. The times of good weather and the activities and increased freedoms of the countryside more than make up for it all.
We had a big blizzard in Michigan over the weekend. Not great for when you have to travel 150 miles north to a cousin's wedding. Turned a 2.5 hour trip into a 4.5 hour trip, and forced us to stay 2 nights up there when it was supposed to be a day trip.
I was in rhe store before an expected snow apocalypse. I had been running around with friends and stopped at a grocery store. I turned n the corner I saw a tv news crew they were watching people buying bread,milk and eggs.
I was around for the blizzard of 1996 in Philadelphia 31 inches of snow. It was the worst in Philadelphia history. The kids on my block made ramps to try and jump the street on sleds. It was epic. 😂
I was in Chicago when that snow storm hit, wasn't as bad as they predicted. The negative 20 degree days after the snow storm was rough. James and Millie you mentioned something about maybe seeing the northern states and I assume that would include the city of Chicago in the future, and you thought the summer would be great for that. Summers up here in Chicago are no joke, usually it is around 80 F which is fine. We do get multiple days in the summer when it is 90 F or over 100.
Perhaps it was a fluke, but when I was in central Wisconsin a few years ago for a couple weeks during the summer, it was in the 90s the whole time and the humidity put it feeling like up over 100.
We just had a few days where the HIGH was negative Fahrenheit. It can be cold enough that, while not snowing per se, the humidity just precipitates out directly as crystals.
i live in Florida it hasn't snowed here in 35 years😂 it did in 1988? was like an inch and the whole town shut down. hurricanes we do, snow flurries? run for your life😂
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld its been cold this year. i live in north Florida, so it does get cold, but usually just rains. but we do get flurries on occasion. the great storm of 88 was the last time it stuck on the ground
I live in Virginia (America). When I was growing up we always had a white Christmas. However, my children were in their teen years before they ever saw a snow storm. But it was a blizzard so... lol
With This Extreme Cold I Want To Live Inside A All Weather Fully Enclosed Lifeboat Turned Into A Storm Bunker Inside Of A Drivable Big Overland RV As My Tiny Home With A Wood and Trash Burning Stove For Warmth/A Nice Bedroom To Sleep In and A Bathroom With A Flush Toilet To Use As I Drive In Stop and Go Traffic Here In The USA Plus I Love YA RU-vid Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots
It's these quasi-winters that suck. Too cold and crummy to do normal outdoor stuff, but not cold ENOUGH to do traditional winter stuff like sledding, skiing, snowmobiling, ice skating, ice fishing, etc.
Fat Electrician released a new video on 1-19-24 about Percy Hobart, I think y'all will truly appreciate an anti-hero out of the U.K ❤❤ I'm in Iowa, missed 2 days of work, well 4 because they canceled the weekend shifts. Got over a foot of snow and -34 Celsius.
Ask your parents about the Winter of 1963, 2 meters of snow in Lincolnshire and Humberside, 3 to 4 meters on the Yorkshire Moors and Dartmoor. Luckily we had spent November stocking up on fallen branches from the local woods. Ice on all the windows on the INSIDE, oh and please do not forget the WC was outside in those days....
I live in the snowiest city in the states, 5th snowiest in the world (Syracuse NY) and have seen many many blizzards. They suck.. and c'mon Lawrence. A Filet O Fish?? Only dads buy those.
Where i grew up (Bossier City/Shreveport, Louisiana) it got so cold over a few days in 1984 that the Red River froze over. You could literally walk across it from Bossier to Shreveport without worrying about falling in
Yeah, the weather got stupid where I live over this last week. Completely shut down most things, including schools, for the last two days, and possibly tomorrow as well. We had more snow in this week than we normally get in a year, and it's still happening. Also I have seen -15 degrees F a couple times this week. Converting for you, that's slightly over (or under in this case) -26c. It's -26.1111 etc. So... cold.
I just saw his video just before you reacted to it 😂 Where I am at (middle of the USA), it is currently -9°F (-22°C) and it’s warmer than it was a few hours ago at least. This time last week it was 20 degrees colder than right now. 🥶 I need to move somewhere warmer for sure! I cannot imagine how anyone survived these temps and excessive snow before modern conveniences. Obviously they did but that must’ve been extremely difficult.
We're in Caledonia, MN. We were at -15°f, don't know the windchill, with 18" of snow this past weekend. My wife and I were out driving around playing Pokémon Go.
Hi guys! The problem with these cold fronts is, they don't stay up north! Plus, they travel so fast that the air doesn't have time to warm up much. Here in Fort Worth, Texas, 3 days ago, the temperature got down to -13C, with a 30 mile per hour wind. Luckily there wasn't much snow and it warmed up to about 5°C yesterday but another front came in last night and today it's about -3°C. Only about another 6 weeks before the worst is over.
They were saying we would have 6 to 10 inches of snow, but it only ended up with about 3-4 inches of wet snow that condensed and froze and it then got very cold. Down to about -10 below 0 F (-23 C) and has now warmed up to 19 (-7.2C). Had a bunch of wind too. When I looked on radar yesterday, it was still snowing on the towns next to Lake Michigan. They always get more snow when it it windy even when there is no storm. What is your normal temperature.
Getting ready for one as I watch this. The Midwest has been getting hit for recently. I'm in Northeast Ohio, and we're expecting 10 to 12 inches over the next couple of days. Temps just rose back up to the lower 20s after being around 3 to 5 degrees F the past couple of days...
I understand his trip. In 1975 (springtime) after they took the plows off the trucks, we had a snow storm. A group of us were in Chicago for a college class, our school was in Naperville Illinois. The normal "short ride home" took us 8 hours. Sometimes we were parked on the expressway for 15 minutes just to move 3 car spaces and park again. We would get out of our car to push other cars forward and then push our car forward. When we got back I went to my car just in time to watch it get buried in snow by a front-end loader from a construction company that was "trying to help". I made it home the next day, after going into a ditch myself. It was a good time. Or maybe not. Everyone have a wonderful day 🙂
Living in MN it gets so cold that they do this one experiment every year to show you how cold it is: they leave a banana (unpeeled) outside overnight, they then in the morning (after having AIR temperatures of -45 F - that is 45 degrees BELOW zero) grab the now frozen solid banana and use it to hammer in a nail into a piece of wood. That's right. It gets so cold here in MN that you can turn a banana into a hammer.......
It's 19 degrees right now (7:11 p.m.) in Maine, USA. This morning was 6 degrees. Nothing compared to the winter of '94 through '95 when it got -40 degrees.
Here in Arkansas our winters are similar to yours, mostly rain and around 40F (4 C) average. This winter we also got really cold under zero F at night. We have stayed cold all week and our one city snowplow hasn't been able to clear all the roads so we've spent a week at home. In fact today will be the first time in the week that we will be out. With more cold and freezing rain in the forcast we will be running out to get a few things for the extended bad weather. Next week we will be back to normal, the week after averaging 60+F so can't wait.
Beesleys: the blizzards in Chicago and other parts of the US east are really nothing. Lake Tahoe received 60 feet of snow last season. Yes--that's 18.29 meters of snow that had to be removed from 100s of miles of roads and freeways and highways over a 3-4 month timeframe.
I was born on the great lakes of Erie and Ontario. The cosstsl storms (Chicago/Detroit/New York/Toronto, etc.) are horrible because they get Heavy, "lake effect" snowfalls plus the humidity (cold and wet is different from cold and dry) and terrific winds make for winters like the UK can't really grasp in scale. Toronto has skyways and tunnels all around down townso you can go to work,the mall, shopping and your hotel and never set foot on the street. Trains run all through town in underground tunnels and on the coast of Erie (about 50mi. west) they close down the first few streets during winter and the people have to move in to their winter lodgings. The record high marker for snow drifts, on the edge of the lake, nailed up on the telephone/power poles is,at about 25 feet off the ground. But, when i lived up on "The Great Divide" of the United States, in northwest Montana (Great falls, Mt. is actually the windiest city in America, in spite of Chicago's moniker) and the incredible snow/ice/wind storms that happen up there are true killers. 8 mos without a clear, sunny day, drifts tens of feet deep, roads obliterated and "cabin fever" when people become mentally affected from being cooped up in a home/cabin for weeks and months on end without having any real change of pace/scenery/temp and ability to move about becomes riddled with depression, violence and suicide. I lived up there in the 70s and 80s, before computers, the internet and social media so there were no immediate, emotional distractions, everyone just made their way (often by cross country skies or snowshoes) to the bars in town... If they lived closely enough. Pool,darts and drinking were the primary activities, all taken quite seriously. When i was in the Airforce base day room,trying to get up a game of pool withthe guys for a few bucks (in Utah, also on the Great divide) one of the guys walked in and said... "Don't play pool or darts with him, he's from Montana, that's all they do, all winter long." Needless to say, i wasn't happy. 😊 The roads up into the mountain passes are lined with dozens of stakes with crosses on top at every corner, each one marking a lost life at that turn. The corners got so full of crosses, the govt. decided "why add more, the point has been made" and the program stopped. Getting caught out in those Montana snow storms up in the top of the Rockies is certain death if you're not prepared and/or have immediate shelter and heat. It's the same in the mountains of Colorado and Utah, where i spent time in the military trying to work out in the worst possible conditions on flight lines set between two mountain tops. Countless expeditions, including the Donner party (Donner pass marks their meet with fate) were lost when being caught crossing/on top of the Rockies, both in historical and modern events. Driving a modern car over paved passes is still a suicide run at many times during the winter but... Those passes also provide some of the most beautiful country/scenery in the world, especially during summer. 😊
Chicago blizzards ain't got nothin' on North Dakota. -40 actual temp, not counting wind (F = C at that temp) , 50mph wind, absolute zero visibility, and yhey last for days.
Look. The blizzard this guy got stuck in with his wife, and the snow his dog is running around in are just normal winter days. That's just average ordinary stuff he's showing you. You really want to see the crazy stuff? Look up lake effect storms in upstate New York, or Wisconsin.
18 inches of snow on the ground here in eastern Nebraska and 0 degrees F as I type this, 25 to 45 mph winds expected tomorrow...nah, we're good. At least it's stopped snowing.
You think what happened last week was bad? You ain't see nothing. When I was in my senior year of College we had 48 inches of snow one weekend in March. Nine months later we 30 inches one day. Most of it fell during rush hour. I left the mall at noon. Didn't get home till five pm.
II live In the Midwest . We are experiencing freeze warnings from the national weather service . I knew were in trouble last month when I found out the theme of my local photo club for January was Frozen.😅
I live 2 hours northwest of Laurence. We got a total of 22" of snow over a 5 day period last week and now are in the deep freeze. Next week our temps will be in the 30°'s F and we might get rain. All of the snow with rain melting it is going to make for a big mess.
The other day the temp was -17c and with the windchill it was -25c the worst in my life was -27c and with wind chill -51, I live in metro Detroit. Frostbite occurs in less than 15 min
Here in the Texas Panhandle, the temperature is currently bouncing up and down like someone was using it for a yo-yo. We didn't get snow, but we got wind, and it dropped to single digits at night for a little over a week. Our furnace was working overtime to try to keep the house warm, and going outside required extensive preperation.
It's still 5-10C where I currently live but there was a snowstorm in the city where we just bought a house so it's delayed us a week with the inspection and everything. Not the worst but I'm so anxious to get to my house!!
When Sandy hit we lost power for 7 days. A week after power was restored we got hit with 16 inches of snow and lost power for 8 more days. Not having power when it's quite literally freezing out is not fun.
It's been below freezing for over a week here. Dang I hate the cold. Good video, and don't worry James I click that like button for you buddy. Tell Archie I said hi see y'all in the next video
Just know that chicago doesnt get snow as much because they are on the west side of lake Michigan. My home town is on the east side of lake Michigan's coast....we get whats called "lake effect" snow. We get more snow because the jet stream comes from to back side of chicago and across lake michigan, grabbing all that moisture and making it into even MORE snow for the east side of the lake than the other side.
We only got about 1inch but 5 days after the roads are still not passable. My area has never really had a need for snow removal eqipment so the roads have stayed extremely slippery. For several days the temp never got above freezing. Today it finally got high enough to thaw some and the cars moved through slush. Tonight it will freeze again into ice. No grocery deliveries have been made to the stores. They are out of many things with bread topping the list. I guess it is time for me to learn how to make bread.
We live in the Central Valley in California We don't get blizards But we do get Lowe's around Minus 5 Celsius Great video is always you guys have a blessed day and God bless
I've always said that you would think that Canada should be a tropical paradise since they keep sending their cold air down here. Winter can get nasty but at least we occasionally get thunder snow!
