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  Welcome to climate change!
context: I checked the weather before I left the house this morning.  -5 degrees but windchill has it down to minus 30.  
  I'm out feeding cattle right now and let me tell y'all it ain't much fun.  I just barely got the tractor started this morning.  (Only 350 head to look after!)
  Lots of water outages too.  Water pipes are frozen all over the county. >
  
  How does anything like cattle survive in such temperatures, won't they all die? >
  
  Cattle have pretty thick hides and good survival instincts.  They're all huddled up in dips between hills or in stands of trees sharing body heat.  
  My job today is to dole out extra rations of hay and high fat high protein cow-chow to keep their metabolism high.  Just gotta keep them fed up good and they'll survive. >
  
  Can't wait to see this episode of Yellowstone. You know, when the 20-year summer finally ends. >
  
  Work in a corrections facility and the men on the units LIVE for that show. I watch it as I do my rounds, counts, and basic interactions and I just don’t get it. >
  
  The thing that bothers me the most about it is there is no point to almost everything they do.  They create problems for themselves and solve them in the dumbest most criminal way possible, and then are constantly miserable.
  They act like the mafia except without any of the benefits of being involved in organized crime. >
  
  You just described all of Kentucky >
  
  🤣 As a Kentuckian I approve >
  
  I too am Kentuckian lol, it’s like the Wild West but more meth and Mountain Dew >
  
  Michigan checking in, once you're out of the city, (or off the coast 10 minutes) here, it's little pockets of Kentucky all over. Rebel flags, clapped out 4X4s, and meth, too. >
  
  It so cold outside my pipes frozen 🥶 >
  
  If you can still run water, do it. Just turn it to a drizzle on warm so they don't get worse. >
  
  Thanks for the advice >
  
  You don't need to run it on warm, that is a waste of gas/electricity and money. Moving water is already quite difficult to freeze compared to still water. The movement is enough for 99 percent of people to keep the pipes unfrozen. >
  
  Your hot water pipes can freeze too unless your home has a recirculating setup. >
  
  Had the cold water supply line to my tankless water heater and some of the hot water pipes freeze Thursday night/Friday morning. Isolated the section that was frozen and had to cut a hole in the drywall in the garage to get at it with a blow dryer to get water flowing again before something burst. Get the joys of patching it next weekend when temps are high enough again for drywall mud to set properly.
  So, yeah. Set your faucet in the middle so your hot lines are moving, too. >
  
  Fimblewinter is upon us >
  
  Aye brother >
  
  Death Can Have Me When It Earns Me. >
  
  Seattle went through this yesterday. Now we have today to get last minute groceries for Christmas dinner. I wish the rest of the country, the best of luck.  I can’t decide if it’s better or worse to have weather like this on the actual holiday. >
  
  
  Now we have today to get last minute groceries for Christmas dinner.
  
  Like... did you not realize Christmas was coming...? Today is literally the worst possible day to go to any store anywhere. >
  
  For many it has been impossible to leave the house since Thursday in the Seattle area as cars are sliding down hills into each other due to the sheet of ice. Anyone who expected to do groceries on Thursday or Friday now has to do it today. >
  
  I'm in the Seattle area. I planned ahead, as shopping during the holidays is awful for the employees and the shopper. We had plenty warning that this storm was coming. >
  
  As someone in the area as well so did I, but not everyone has the flexibility to do groceries whenever they want due to work reasons and may have planned Thursday or Friday groceries. Lack of foresight is one thing but the weather was unexpected and the city was definitely not prepared. I’ve seen some crazies out the window trying to drive yesterday and hit cars as they lose control and skid down the hill.
  Holiday shopping last minute is chaos though so definitely avoid doing it late >
  
  
  not everyone has the flexibility to do groceries whenever they want due to work reasons and may have planned Thursday or Friday groceries. Lack of foresight is one thing but the weather was unexpected and the city was definitely not prepared.
  
  Even as someone not in a dangerous-weather area, I can empathize with this. Sometimes work or life gets in the way at inconvenient times and then you get a terrible weather event on top of it. Sometimes it's as simple as food you just got going bad more quickly than usual (milk, bread, etc.), and you can't always replace it. 
  Here's hoping you can stay safe and get what you need. >
  
  Trying to assemble my daughter’s new bicycle in the garage.  The metal parts are all well below freezing.  I think I’m going to bring the pieces inside and let them warm up before trying again. >
  
  When I was young me and my siblings all got bikes for Christmas, but it would be months before we could use them because of the snow (lived in a lake effect area).  So, my parents let’s us ride bikes inside the house for one day. >
  
  Same… in the basement. We did it with rollerblades too. Some of my best memories fr. >
  
  Turns out the movie The Day After Tomorrow was just years ahead of its time. >
  
  I’ve played Frostpunk, we’re fucked >
  
  Don't worry, I saved everyone in Frostpunk first time I played it. The ending which is supposed to make you feel bad is like "you saved all the refugees but at what cost?!!?? You made everyone....work longer shifts!!" >
  
  I remember beating it and having a really good run, the little uprising/rebellion storyline resolved itself peacefully because things in the city were going so well that the whole movement lost steam, no public executions required. Worst thing was a bit of casual child labor >
  
  Which let's be honest I'm against child labor in our world but when it's about survival against a freezing apocalypse and we're very likely the last refuge of humanity, those freeloaders can man a lever. >
  
  Western PA is certainly doing its part. Brrrrr! >
  
  NEPA over here ain't much better! >
  
  Heyna or no!? >
  
  In Atlanta last night was the coldest I remember it being here (felt like -9° F or -23° C, which in a city known for its heat is crazy). There were a few lower temperatures in the 80s here but in my lifetime i’ve never seen something like this in Atlanta. The actual temperature was 8° F or -13° C but that god damn wind chill was making it so much worse. Im from Ukraine originally and I hadn’t experienced that kind of temperature since I visited back home last winter, I wasn’t prepared for it here in Atlanta. >
  
  I'm a long-time Atlanta native, and yeah, this is the coldest it's been here in decades.  I am ready to go back to complaining about the heat and humidity again. >
  
  Exactly, I was wearing jeans out yesterday because they’ve never not been enough for Atlanta weather and my legs got swollen from the cold for the first time from Atlanta weather, it was insane. >
  
  I live in Montana and its gone from -22 with windchill of -44 to above freezing today and tomorrow and its supposed be up to 45 all next week. Global warming makes weather really weird >
  
  I burn wood in an outdoor boiler to heat the house, and in the last 48 hours I've gone through what would normally be two weeks of firewood.
  My boiler normally runs <10% duty cycle (the time it's actively blowing air into the firebox, normally it's coasting off the utterly massive stored heat it's water jacket provides), it's nearly at 50% duty cycle right now because the furnace in my old farm house is demanding so much energy.
  My son has rabbits with 12 watt heaters on their water bottles and they're still freezing.  12 watts is a huge amount of power to put into a 24-oz bottle and it's still not enough.
  This storm has been crazy. >
  
  The nice thing about winter in California is watching it happen everywhere else...I miss the snow lol >
  
  Moving to Bay Area in January. Looking forward to more consistent weather. Also less New Orleans summers. >
  
  It does get humid here in socal during the summer, though I imagine nothing close to what you're use to. >
  
  I suspect that mold is growing in my furniture because it’s so humid. Whatever it is outside what it is inside of my apartment. >
  
  Lol I've never seen it get that humid, you and your future furniture should be fine >
  
  Take your damn Xmas wreaths off your house numbers so your delivery drivers can get home to their families. >
  
  They don't use GPS or Google Maps or smth? >
  
  Lol they do, but the GPS doesn't take you directly to the driveway of lots of houses, so the drivers have to go look at the house #s. >
  
  The temp dropped from the forties to the teens like it's my uncle's dating preferences. >
  
  the Gaetz have opened beware >
  
  real tired of breaking weather records >
  
  Conservatives like: hurr durr what happened to global warming? >
  
  It’s crazy cause it’s 17 degrees here in MA but by the end of the week we’ll have a high of 54. >
  
  Hit 9°F on Friday where I live, next Friday it will be 65°F. >
  
  Hello ATL. >
  
  It's 25 here in North Central Florida, last night was supposedly -6. I feel sorry for the homeless. If I could find them I'd have bought them a lot of blankets. Unfortunately developers keep buying up pockets of land and destroying the vegetation that kept these people warm. >
  
  Homeless people live in the forest and swamps of Florida? >
  
  Quite a few do live in the forested areas on the Eastern parts, but where I live it's not swamp or a whole lot of forest really. More like lots of large bushes and overgrowth if you will. There was a camp in one part near my work that was thick enough to keep them warm, but it got destroyed. 
  Think like the roundabouts that have those big hedges. >
  
  69* in Phoenix. Brrr. >
  
  I live in San Diego, it just hit 60 degrees. I'm about to start burning furniture. >
  
  Yesterday at the tidepools at low tide I almost had to wear a hat. >
  
  The sudden drop in temperature was insane yesterday. Here in NYC I cycled crosstown to feed a friend's cat in 55 degree temps - half an hour later I came back out and it was arctic temperatures with a wind so strong that it threw me against parked cars as I cycled. And I almost froze to death because I definitely wasn't dressed for it. >
  
  If only there had been something on the news letting you know to prepare. >
  
  Derp brain: "Nah, it can't be that bad."
  Reality: hold this frozen beer