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Thank goodness!! I always wonder how livestock fare in this weather!
temp dropped 32 degrees in 8 minutes in cheyenne. I was outside when it happened. shit was crazy, like walking into a freezer >

In 8 minutes?! Lordy, it sounds like sci-fi. Scary. I'm really worried for the homeless and elderly and anyone who loses power. >

It is a sort of sci-fi movie.  The Day After Tomorrow was loosely based on this type of weather event. >

This happened in China, last year? 🤔 the year before maybe. 40 people died. The day after tomorrow was written in response to the climate change papers that predicted these exact events with the 1.5-2 degree increase in temperature. It was a shock when the papers came out and said by 2040 instead of 2080. No, it was all there. I remember reading them shortly after the movie.came.out. Hollywood always using the movies to prep us for what's coming. 
/in before zombie apocalypse...we all know the CDC has written protocols for it 😅 right on their website >

The Day After Tomorrow was based on a book called "The Coming Global Superstorm" by Art Bell. I know the science behind it is real, but I have to admit I had to put some more serious thought into it when I picked up my copy of the book one day and realized Art Bell had written it. 
I've had the book since not long after the movie came out, and I think it was just after he died that I realized he wrote it. Apparently I'm not observant (or more likely didn't actually know who he was when I had last looked at the book). >

I would listen to him Coast to Coast decades ago when i couldn't sleep.
My younger cousin really got hooked on that show and listened to it every night/morning.  My cousin dropped out of hs because of his addiction to Art Bell.
Someone recently told me Bell was a xenophobe, but I don't recall that.
I've caught the new guy (he's probably been on for a long time) twice.  Both times were heavy on cryptids. >

Back when conspiracy theories were fun and relatively harmless >

It was actually even more dramatic than the headline. The official temperature at the Denver airport went from about 45 to 15 literally in a few minutes. Downtown, it was close to 50 at 3:15, about 20 when I left work at 4:45, then 5 when I got home at 5:30. Woke up to -17. >

Welcome to Alberta.  On the other hand it can go the other way just as quickly (chinook) >

It’s pretty brutal here.  Calgary’s chinook’s kill my head though. Instant days longs migraines. >

I'm southwest of you. Got the cows in the barn generating heat.