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Today it was so cold in Los Angeles that …

Sirius Glass

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Today it was so cold in Los Angeles that …
we had to close the windows
I put up the top on my convertible
I saw people wearing socks with their sandals
I bought a sweater today
I took the ice out of my coffee
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I remember lived in Southern California, and my father would call relatives in Chicago on Christmas day to tell them he mowed the lawn.

Yes, living is SoCal is brutal...
 
Yeah, I lived most of my adult life in Newport beach. Now I live outside of Ottawa, the coldest national capital in the world. What was I thinking? Don
 
Born and raised in the greater Los Angeles area, I once remember that it got so cold that our air conditioner switched off.

I thought we were all going to die...

:eek:

Ken
 
Northern California it gets a bit colder.

I had to get out a friends club membership card to scrape the ice off the windshield, because the windshield washer fluid didn't immediately wash it off.
 
Whiner.. My daughter and I were hunting in 6 inches of snow and 9 deg.F temps last week. We are supposed to get up to 8 more inches of snow tonight.
 
Rick A said:
Whiner.. My daughter and I were hunting in 6 inches of snow and 9 deg.F temps last week. We are supposed to get up to 8 more inches of snow tonight.
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Jeez... I'll bet your air conditioner doesn't even come on!



Ken
 
air conditioner?? What is this air conditioner thing you speak of?
:munch:
 
Also born and raised in the Greater LA Area -- now living as close to Oregon as I was living close to Mexico. I lived over a decade up here without heat (no furnace, wood stove, etc). Those below freezing mornings were a bit nippy -- fortunately we do not get many of them per year. At the coldest times, I would brew a pot of herbal tea and sit on the floor with a wool cap on my head and another on the tea pot -- occasionally I would exchange caps to warm up my head. And perhaps cook a biscuit to take the bite out the air (it was very small house, so the oven could raise the temp a few degrees -- measured 13'x18' on the outside). I slept in the uninsulated attic. Ah...the good old days! (yes, I have heat now -- and it is on...oh, the wimp I have become! LOL!)

LA drivers can't handle rain very well, and drivers up here tend to be clueless about snow. I remember the university closing down for the day because there was a little ice on the campus roads.

Rain here right now and the hills tomorrow morning probably will be white (suppose to be 32F tonight on the coast).
 
When Carter was President one January he asked us to save energy by keeping our residents at 68°F. We had to turn on the air conditioners to comply with his request.
 
Sirius Glass said:
I put up the top on my convertible
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Lightweights.
Here in adelaide we can't have convertibles. If you're in the sun for 20 consecutive minutes the top of your head catches fire. (but it gets worse in summer)
 
Dr Croubie said:
Lightweights.
Here in adelaide we can't have convertibles. If you're in the sun for 20 consecutive minutes the top of your head catches fire. (but it gets worse in summer)
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Does that simulate hair growth? If so it might be a cure for pattern baldness.
 
Dr Croubie said:
Lightweights.
Here in adelaide we can't have convertibles. If you're in the sun for 20 consecutive minutes the top of your head catches fire. (but it gets worse in summer)
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Once up near Darwin at the beginning of the Wet, I was wondering if I should put on my diving mask or my glasses before going outside.
 
Hatchetman said:
Low of 9 tonight here in Chicago.
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Predicting 12 at my place NE of Seattle. But I will admit it's a bit more rare for us than for you. Tough to get too cold for too long with half-a-planet of ocean only a few miles away.*

Ken

* Don't tell that to the New Orleans Saints, though...

:devil:
 
winger said:
It's about 4 here right now. I zipped my jacket today. It takes a lot for me to zip my jacket.
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Sounds like it needs a new zipper!
 
I shivered in San Diego in February. It was chilly!

Here, it's -27 C at the moment but I'm smart enough to be inside so there is no shivering . The roaring fire is delightful.
 
Sirius Glass said:
Today it was so cold in Los Angeles that …
we had to close the windows
I put up the top on my convertible
I saw people wearing socks with their sandals
I bought a sweater today
I took the ice out of my coffee
​
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I know the feeling.we had a wind chill of 82F today;time to move south.
 
Jim...

I'll see your -27°C and raise it (raise it??) 13° C to our current -40° here. (about a one day drive west)

Ken
 
PhotoJim said:
I shivered in San Diego in February. It was chilly!

Here, it's -27 C at the moment but I'm smart enough to be inside so there is no shivering . The roaring fire is delightful.
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Right now in the Alberta Rocks we have -29.5c and expect -32c.
 
Sucks to be the rest of you right now.
 

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