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Posted by: TechnologyExpert 2 years, 9 months agoFreezing rain, snow, sleet, flash floods and at least one tornado walloped the United States this weekend, killing at least 13 people in accidents on slick roads as a massive storm front blanketed much of the country.
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WYSIWYGReality
Jan. 14, 2007, 10:40 p.m.Somebody, please have some thoughts for California. They are loosing crops due to unuasual freezing weather.
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lfergie812
Jan. 14, 2007, 11:15 p.m.I think they are saying ice storms, not blizzards. These weather conditions are warm compared to 30 years ago. At this time of the year in 1977, the whole northern US was covered with snow and blizzard conditions and temperatures below zero for days. When is the last time the temperature was below zero for more than one day below Chicago?
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slate
Jan. 14, 2007, 5:17 p.m.I thought everyone knew,,,,, cold = global warming, heat does to,, as well as no storms or ;lots of em,,,,,, the global warming folks have covered every possible angle,,,,,,, did you know that an Ice age is the ultimate outcome of global warming?
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not2needy
Jan. 14, 2007, 8:11 p.m.An ice age is exactly what we will be up against if the global warming isn't stopped, the polar icecaps will start to move and wipe out everything in their path. It's the way the majority of the mountains were formed, etc.
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lfergie812
Jan. 14, 2007, 11:20 p.m.slate
Your president has been predicted to admit that global warming is a real threat.
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OldRusty
Jan. 14, 2007, 5:18 p.m.oddley enought the story failed to say 7 mexicans killed in the oklahoma car crash were illegal..12 illegals were traveling in a mini van.
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slate
Jan. 14, 2007, 5:47 p.m.you're kidding right?
Even so, I don't want illegals to die, I just want them to become legal immigrants
Fleela,,,,, is that short for Flee Louisiana?
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lfergie812
Jan. 14, 2007, 11:23 p.m.It's news which is why I read them. If you don't like this story, may I suggest this one.
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TechnologyExpert
Jan. 14, 2007, 11:56 p.m.People dying is boring? At least their deaths deserve respect.
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evelyna
Jan. 14, 2007, 6:14 p.m.Good this creates jobs for rescue personnel, snow plowers and utility workers.
People can create their own cottage incomes selling snow shoes kerosine heaters and loaves of bread.
The spirit of enterprise.
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slate
Jan. 14, 2007, 6:15 p.m.Hey maybe it can be spun into a Bush Bash,,, that's always gets em excited around here
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evelyna
Jan. 14, 2007, 6:35 p.m.It is true, Bush cannot protect people from the common elements.
We had ice storms in PA about 15 years ago and did just fine without Homeland security and fema.
Maybe Bill Clinton was doing something right. I was on the same line as the courthouse and hospital so I did not have to do without power for long.
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jordan11
Jan. 14, 2007, 8:34 p.m.This is a huge cold front. We've had snow covering our city, along with ice that can't melt because it.s too cold, for more than four days, and I live near Seattle. 18 degrees greeted me the other morning, and my daughter found 16 degrees icing everything in S. California. Two weeks before Christmas we had a wind storm that put more than a million people in the dark, followed by temps in the 20's, with some people left without power for days. Never saw such crazy weather.
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mamasan
Jan. 14, 2007, 8:52 p.m.what a sad story... I feel so bad for all those that died on the icy roads.
Be careful kids.
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LordyLordy
Jan. 15, 2007, 1:06 a.m.The folks with the SUVs and great big 4x4s worry me. They think because they have more traction they can stop sooner. They cannot. Yet companies are so cold and uncaring if you call in, say you cannot get in, they in some cases just fire you. My boss wanted me to come in hunker down, and hold down the fort. I said I have 3-4 foot drifts in front of the house. Come by and pick me up with your 16 inch 4x4 Dodge Ram and we'll go in together. His reply was he couldn't get out. My response was, then why do you think I can? Two men who could walk went in and spent 3 days there. They ate all my TV dinners back in the break area....(lol) I never complained.
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biggeorge2k
Jan. 14, 2007, 9:29 p.m.I hate to burst your bubble global warming geeks but there have been winter storms for thousands of years.
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WYSIWYGReality
Jan. 14, 2007, 10:58 p.m.Although I agree with you Big Georges, I have to remind you that the problem isn't the storms or the disasters themselves, but it's where and when it's happening.
A snow storm happening at a usual winter time and in a regular cold weather region is perfectly normal... BUT ... if all this is happening at some odd places, disproportionate intensity, and at completely displaced timing .. I ought to become suspipcious. I believe you know what climate shift means.
The weather has been behaving weirder and weirder every year for the past 10 years. I'm not even sure if all the environmental friendly lifestyle we could adopt would even matter to reverse what we started; One thing is certain, we can wait and blame others when it's too late to do anything.
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eurohippy
Jan. 14, 2007, 9:51 p.m.my neighbor's tree is in bloom, has been for at least 10 days...i live in alexandria, virginia. no snow days in the near future....global warming is real.
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Pedra
Jan. 15, 2007, 1:30 a.m.I live in Bowie, MD. The Magnolia in my yard is beginning to bloom and the tulips are coming up in the yard. Todays high was 67 degrees while my parents, who live in Bakersfiled, CA had a new low of 23 degrees. It's as if the weather on the 2 coasts have been reversed.
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tobeybarnes
Jan. 14, 2007, 10:13 p.m.I beginning to get hit with it. Right now I'm having freezing rain, mixed with snow. At times so heavy it is hitting my windows. I hope this doesn't last long. I finally got a job and start Tuesday, just in time for the bitter cold haha.
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Eagle_Eye
Jan. 14, 2007, 11:37 p.m.The song birds are building nests in Florida which will freeze in Late Feb or March. The aninals and the rrees,plants are all going to be hurt by this climate change
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LordyLordy
Jan. 15, 2007, 12:07 a.m.Better watch out for the bird flu while you're at it then. The first clue is that you are suddenly afraid of cats and you have this urge to go out and poop on someone's windshield! Go see a doctor immediately before its untweetable!
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Dave53
Jan. 15, 2007, 3:41 a.m.The weather patterns do change and it causes some "different" type storms. I've been sitting in the middle of this one and it is somewhat different for sure. We have had three waves of storm. What hit here in north OKC has been sleet. Freezing rain has been to the south and has caused more damage as best I can tell from the TV. That area has the power outages, due to limbs. It was only a few years ago that it happened much the same to the same area. Just now had begun to look normal.
The strangest thing about the sleet has been that it is like very round pellets. It acts like sand since it stays frozen. When you walk in the deeper stuff it flows like mud or loose sand. It squishes through and flows around tires rather than compacting like snow. Of course it is very slick. Of course tomorrow with a little melting it should then get extremely slick when the sun goes down. I am glad this occurred on a long weekend as that may keep the accidents down.
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spottyb
Jan. 15, 2007, 4:18 a.m.Figures - i spend AUD$15,000 to take the family back to Ontario for a white Christmas and it is the warmest since records began - the minute I fly back to Australia - IT SNOWS!!! I arrive back in OZ to find 100 degree temperatures but the coldest Christmas here in years. What is going on?
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periwinklefrog
Jan. 15, 2007, 6:47 a.m.You're an idiot if you believe everything you hear in the news. We don't have enough data to prove that this "global warming" isn't natural. We only have enough historical data of the last 200 years, if that. And it has been proven by looking at the Vostok Ice Core in Antartica that the globe goes through series of high temperature and "ice ages." Geographers and Geologists call these series interglacial and glacial (respectively). So, who do you believe Gore? or the facts?
PS: CO2 and CFC's aren't helping but they're not hurting as much as we think.
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mamasan
Jan. 15, 2007, 11:21 a.m.Peri, being the cautious person I am...I would rather err on the side of Global Warming and actually help the world than to stick my head in the snow and say...glogal warming ..what global warming.
It wont hurt anyone but Big Business to do what is required to give us the insurance we need.
Think of your children if not for yourself.
It is not that big a deal to do the right thing.
It will only benefit us and Nature. : - )
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Tango57
Jan. 15, 2007, 8:33 a.m.periwinkle,
Where have you been? One important note alone stands to reason on global warming, glacier melting, polar bears going on the endangered list...I was in Alaska just this last year. You can see first hand global warming is occuring, causing bizzare weather patterns, globally. Not just here in the US..
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1basque1
Jan. 15, 2007, 10:54 a.m.I just know that it has been below 25 degrees here since Friday eve...We are having a heat wave,Sun is shining and it is 15 now...I feel sorry for the people who have lost electricity and the animals that have no protection...
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JustJim
Jan. 15, 2007, 11:42 a.m.I have said this in most topics that are about Bush and people get mad saying it's off topic. Meanwhile I'm just saying that him taking steps in saving the world Global Warming is more important than his plans with Iraq. A lot more important and that's why that yes it is important to have a president that believes in it. We're all gonna die with this guy in office but not from terrorists. Yes they're a big problem but Bush needs to realize they aren't the only problem... That is if it's even terrorists on his mind and not just oil between his ears.
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darito5
Jan. 15, 2007, 1:17 p.m.i just wanted to be the first to say global warming slash ice age! how about this is nature and it will do what ever it wants to.
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