bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Several articles in paper, news and web have covered this. The world is nice but maybe they should pay better attention to what's going on right here at home.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

They (the warmers) aren't going to read anything that threatens what they believe about the situation if it might jar their beliefs so I doubt they read any of these things.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

But is so handy to show that kind of thing and then throw in something about polar bears floating on tiny floes which they can use as what they want to show. Libs are pretty good at playing the double standard games on all their topics.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Basically the same crap in the 50's only reversed, we're headed for an ice age. Yep it was cold but by the mid 60's winters weren't nearly as cold.

beammeupscotty Loc: 31°07'50.8"N 87°27'00.8"W

I miss spoke...they realize it....they just hope the sheeple won,t

DannyM

Global warmers are all nuts. They will destroy the planet long before some evil people who contribute nothing to the dreaded greenhouse effect do. If anything we should turn on a bunch of heaters..........why folks want it cold I'll never know. I guess it gets em paid.

beammeupscotty Loc: 31°07'50.8"N 87°27'00.8"W

As soon as it stops raining......i'm going out and burning a huge pile of used tires...drives the progs crazy around here...i just do it to piss them off....hehe.....hey does that make me passive aggressive?????

DannyM

Make sure you toss a few batteries into their yards too..........

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

I forgot where you are from and got worried about it never stopping raining. We had about 1/4 inch in the last 2 or 3 months and not another drop. I don't ever hear any leaners talking about the weather though so maybe they really don't know a lot about what it and what causes it.

Out here in the plains we do feel sorry about the weather you people have been having, especially the huge rains they have had in Florida lately. We would be very glad to take a couple of inches of that rain any time. The day before yesterday one of our western Kansas schools closed down for the day. The reason -- dust. I saw some cars that were stuck in dry dirt that had blown in around them.

beammeupscotty Loc: 31°07'50.8"N 87°27'00.8"W

Wow,i can't fathom what it would be like to be that dry and dusty. Tuesday we got almost 20" in a 12 hr period. Most people around here fair pretty good, our biggest issue is roadway flooding downtown.

Thank you for your concern, BTW, if we could we would gladly send you some of the wet stuff.


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oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

Since I lived my first years in the Dirty 30s I only know what some people have told me about it since I was very young. I do remember more dry periods where we had severe dirt storms in western Kansas. I will never forget one that hit us in Hays, Ks. in 1957 where the southwest sky became so bright red that we couldn't believe it. It was the pan handle of Oklahoma blowing away and my parents said exactly what they saw in the 30s.

I asked a man from Arkansas today what he would think was the total amount of rainfall we have had since January 1. He guessed 2 inches and was amazed when I told him .25 inch and that was from mostly snow. We are ready for some of the rain from you people but don't need tornadoes with it.

beammeupscotty Loc: 31°07'50.8"N 87°27'00.8"W

I would not wish a tornado on my worst enemy let alone someone i consider a friend, i pray you never have too experience one

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

I have been very close to many tornadoes in my life. When I was 9 my dad caught me standing and watching one about 2 miles away shucking things out all around it. He beat my butt all the way to the bottom of the stairs of the storm shelter. I remember going to a farm site, about a month later, where one had torn the top off the storm shelter, deposited 10 or 12 calves in the hole and closed it back up with a hole about a foot across left for air. Just beside that was a power pole full of wheat straw. Couldn't pull them out either.

I was within 10 miles of the one that destroyed the whole town of Greensburg, Ks. in 2007. If formed up about that far from my house and was running alongside the highway my boys were driving on coming home from work so they were only about a mile from the thing when it decided to move across the highway. One of my sons went with the fire and rescue group from here to help look in basements up there. It took them 2 1/2 hours to drive the 23 miles. There were so many power poles, dead cattle, oil field tank batteries, etc on the highway that they went by dirt roads and were stuck 3 times.

That tornado was the one that allowed Kathleen Sebelius to show her true stripes. As the governor of Kansas, of course she was there when President Bush visited and she announced to the world, after he left, that they could have it cleaned up much better if so much of our National Guard heavy equipment hadn't been sent to Iraq. Of course, they had sent all kinds of farm trucks and contractors out of the city because they had so many huge NG dump trucks in town and didn't need the civilians. She was already lying for Obama that day. My youngest son was in town two days after the storm and said they had those NG trucks lined up on the highway, bumper to bumper and no distance on intersections. Sebelius must have been working for her appointment that day.