I'm gonna whine about the weather, ya'll go ahead and make fun of me

It was 37 freaking degrees this AM in South Mississippi. I've had to break out long pants. Give me 90 degrees with 90 percent humidity any day.

On a serious note, it was 37 freaking degrees this AM in South Mississippi and many of our fellow citizens displaced by Hurricane Katrina are living in tents. Meanwhile another billion of your tax dollars went to Iraq this week. Happy Holidays!

We go on a picnic. :eyes:

the cold weather down there - colder then normal - does have a harsher impact then normal.

It has just been friggin cold for the last few weeks.

The game my kids and I play on the way to school is 'how far below zero will the temperature get' in the van - "woo hoo, -5 today". Sheeet! It is cold!

I am sooo not looking forward to the gas bill. :(

37 degrees is a lot colder on a body down here which is acclimated to much warmer temperatures. Especially when you living in a tent and relying on a fire outside the tent for heat.

I never though 40 could be so cold until I was working outside near Pearlington. I'm from near Pittsburgh too.

I feel for all y'all Chief.

-Hoot

bird flu - it won't be Bushco's fault. It never is; can't be.

Heck, 37 is short sleeve weather.

People in Chicago do not go on picnics when it's 37 degrees. They put on a sweater or jacket or coat, and tend to spend a lot of time inside, just as people do in all the other cold parts of the country. They do not go out and live in tents with no way to heat their living space and snicker about how wimpy people are who dont' want to live in a tent in 37 degrees.

Thirty-seven degrees is cold enough to cause someone without sufficient means for heat to die of exposure, given enough time.

I've lived in Chicago, and believe me, never saw anyone doing the shirt-sleeve thing when it was below 40 degrees - and plenty of the so-called tough Northerners do their share of bitching when the weather gets that nippy, as they run from their heated cars to their heated houses and their heated places of work.

Ridiculing people who have lost everything and are now at the mercy of the elements, living in tents, without access to any kind of real heating when the temperatures are going down to levels that they are not at all acclimated to is really ugly.

Northerners aren't as tough as they like to act like they are. I never heard such bitching in my life as I did starting every autumn and ending every spring during my thirty years of living in the northern part of the USA (upstate New York, northern Pennsylvania, Chicago, Wyoming, Maine) - and I never saw people who continually looked like Nanook of the North even in relatively warm (in the 40's) temperatures. Endless crabbing about how "bitter" the weather was. Moaning about how long winter was. Houses with wood burning stoves that made it so damn hot you thought you would die of dehydration after being in them for twenty minutes.

No picnics in thirty degree temperatures. No short sleeves either. But lots of bluster about how weak people from other parts of the country are and how tough the bundled up, crabbing, be-gloved Northerners with their heaters banging away day and night are.

Yeah, right. Let's see you do a couple of weeks in a tent without proper winter wear (it isn't even available in southern stores) and then make quips about picnicking in cold temperatures.

I don't think anybody was being ridiculed...it was a joke based on Chicago's cold winters.

sheesh...

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Should have used :sarcasm: instead of :eyes: . The poster appeared to not care that people were sleeping in tents when it's 37 degrees outside.

The OPoster said NOTHING about living in a tent and jokingly said "ya'll go ahead and make fun of me".

:eyes: (and yes, I meant to use :eyes: )

I've been to Little League games when it was 37 degrees.

And I have winter camped before.

Honest. I'm a fricken polar bear. It's really doesn't bother me at all.

Finally take the old dinette chairs off the street, first.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Our cold here in AZ isn't like the rest of the country but when you're used to 100+ degrees the 30's feel pretty doggone cold! I couldn't stand the humidity in your area though. I like the dry heat we have here.
Drink lots of hot liquids (some bourbon doesn't hurt either) and don't forget that listening to the RW idiots is an easy way to get your blood boiling.

Here in St. Louis it can be below 37 degrees for weeks on end (day & night) this time of year.

I keep these days filed away in my head so I'll remember why I love it when the sweat is pouring off me while I do absolutely nothing.

But do you live in a tent during that time? Constantly? With nowhere else to go? With no heater or real shelter other than a tent?

I spent many, many years living in places with severe winter weather in the USA, complete with all the folks to said Southerners were "weak" and couldn't handle cold, and that certain low temperatures were "short sleeve" weather and all that horseshit.

I say horseshit because they were wearing coats and hats and gloves and driving around in heated cars, and spending their time in heated buildings - and they did plenty of griping about the cold. Even when it was that supposedly balmy 37 degrees.

In truth, very few people go around in short sleeves and consider 37 degrees pleasant, even in the northern tier of the USA. And people in Mississippi, who have lost everything and are living in a tent, don't have a way to bundle up. Heavy winter clothes aren't even available in stores down there - and how about the fact that many of the stores just aren't even open in the areas hit by the hurricane.

I'd like to watch how weak you'd become after a few days where you simply couldn't get away from 37 degrees or bundle up.

I'd love to see the pukes loose the south for a couple generations to come!

next election year. Katrina may just be the perfect storm on the gulf coast that the republicans want nothing to do with. Everyday newspapers in Gulfport and New Orleans are chock full of anti-government news (relative to the hurricane) and it hurts the republicans worse then the Dems especially in Mississippi.

It's about 45 degrees and the sun is shining brightly. Temperatures in the 30s do not bother me in the least. But at 90 degrees, I am dying. I hate summer.

I am sure those 500 dollar silk work shirts of his would stay perfect on the floor of a tent.

to keep him as far away from those tents as possible. Surely in classic republican thinking, those that freeze to death won't have the opportunity to vote against him, ergo good news.

Like cutting headstart and aid for Medicare and then turning around and pushing through 3 more tax breaks for the wealthy to the tune of 56 billion dollars. I have heard Abramoff
is getting ready to talk, he's running low on defense funds and he did some lobbying for
Diebold, it will be interesting to hear what comes out.

or suffering in his whole sorry excuse of a life. And he never will.

and he's still trying to get even with the military over it.

has a tent yet. I mean in the Katrina areas, we know they don't in Pakistan. Just unreal.

I can't imagine sleeping in my car every night with no heat. There are children dying in
Pakistan, why, is this not our great ally and fellow Osama chaser, why isn't Bush doing more
is he practicing his vacation skills so he will be ready for Christmas.

Four days ago we had -31C. wind chill. Today there's a girl in a bikini sunbathing on the roof across the street.

:wtf: is going on?

It's colder here in Portland right now, 4C.

You guys are having a heat wave!

i`m always checking the weather down there when it gets this cold in northern illinois. 37 is cold as it is up here when you have no heat or living in tents....but think of those poor bastards in pakistan freezing and starving to death in the mountains....yup--- another billion for iraq and no more money for energy assistance

I listened to the guys from MS testify in front of Congress and was weeping by the time the Mayor was done.

If I had $$ I'd send it, I've called my federal reps a couple times on this, what else can I do? I maybe have some extra blankets I could mail, would that help? But I live in AZ so they are pretty light blankets.......

:hug:

My hot tub stopped working and I didn't even realize it, went to check on it and it is a 3 ft frozen pool, time to break out the ice skates. :woohoo:

Snowed about five inches last night, today a bright, bright blue sky lighting up everything. Brilliant white except for the roads which are now dry. About 24 degrees and windy but the sun is warm and cheerful. Beautiful.

Every time I think about Katrina victims sleeping in tents I just want to scream!

'Twas about 20 here...... That's what we call balmy this time of year! :D :D

Plus, I've got about 10 inches of snow on the back deck... At least school let out at 11:30 :D :D

...and you eat babies.

;)

I share my fetus-eating habits with no one!!!

:rofl::rofl:

than 37 in a house. We've been around low 30's and feels like 20's here in kentucky. Our furnace is down and it was 59 in the house the other morning, since we only have 1 electric space heater to heat 5 large rooms. A tent would be almost unbearable.

We're looking at a warming trend though... high of 31 tomorrow but it's supposed to drop again.

Please, weather-Gods, let it be warm/hot!

We live where we live because we do not have to shovel snow. 37 in the South is Cold. Here (Lake Co., CA, elevation 1300+), we get frosts, rain, 100 deg. summers, but no snow.
My heart goes out to those on the Gulf Coast who lack decent housing. All I can do is think good thoughts in their direction.
:hug:

Connecticut here.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! And it's a DAMP cold too, that just cuts you all the way to the bone!

Bake

You complain about 37 degrees. In PA if it were 37 degrees right now I'd lay out on my roof naked and get a tan. Its 22 degrees and theres 6.5 inches of snow on the ground! Give me 90 degrees and 90% humidity any day!

My neighbors who just moved from Florida like 4 months ago are all freaked out. The one kid is 20 and this is the first time he'sever seen snow like this.

Holy shit. This is our first WA winter and I had no idea that it started getting dark at 3:45 PM.. what kind of shit is that? Im like a freaking mushroom. We went on a walk yesterday at 3:30, by the time we got home it was dark and the temperature had dropped atleast 15 degrees, half the parking lot had frozen over cause some smarty pants decided to wash his car.

Everyone warned me about rain, but that has been no big deal. Its the short days.


However, today it is clear and sunny and Ive decided to stop work in 30 minutes and spend the rest of the day (next 2 hours) soaking it in.

Bitch away.

This is NOT acceptable!!!!!!

This is not what our nation is about. We CANNOT let our people live in cold leaky tents and on porches.

PLEASE call and write congress and DEMAND that we help our people in their time of need! Sheesh! What ARE we about?! Debating made-up shit about Xmas?! Our people are in need of our support!

Katrina relief for our people MUST BE PUT ON THE FRONT BURNER. It IS OUR job as Americans to DEMAND it.

and we have homeless people here too.

Very cold here in Lafayette, also. I hope the weather moderates soon. I am very worried about the storm victims. We just need our sixty-degree winter here. Bless all who are in need of heat and/or shelter tonight.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......damn cold!

Our government should be SUED for leaving the hurricane victims to freeze in tents and for CONTINUING to ignore their plight. :grr: Class action law suit by the entire freakin' country. Not one red cent should be spent on that illegal invasion ESPECIALLY while we have citizens in need.

think you can sue our government. Anyone?

Freakin wicked cold.

I've been thinking about the folks down south and how they will fare this winter.

Or is it just that you don't mind spending a few seconds outside while you dart into the nearest building to enjoy the A/C? :eyes:

damn wind is blowing it around this afternoon.

Ever woken up in a log cabin in Maine during a snowstorm to find that the fire went out? Ive never really felt cold since then.

Gotta be FUCKING cold.

It do get cold down your way occasionally...I hear it is in the fifties in Alaska...