Pshaw…I mock you and your quote Arctic Freeze Blast, end quote.
Jan 17th, 2007 by Kristi
Otherwise titled: Confessions of a Newly Minted Weather Snob
Run for your lives y’all! It’s 32 degrees!!!!!!
San Antonio has to shut down the highways, schools and all forms of San Antonian merriment during a freeze. This is because the city does not have the de-icing capablilities it would take to make the roads safe for a million people. Fair enough. But still I snicker, politely but noticably, because they have to shut down the town when it’s 32 degrees! And because I am now, officially, and not just in name only, a weather snob.
Tell me it’s hot? Oh no you di-int! You don’t know hot ’til you lived in South Texas, girlfriend. South Texas is hot. Like, look around for a corrupt despot and some mosquito nets because it’s Africa-hot. Africa-hot is when you step outside and your very soul is sucked out of you. Africa-hot is when you walk down a suburban neighborhoood and the streets look like a ghost town. Only it’s too humid for tumbleweeds. Kids don’t play outside before 7 pm when it’s Africa-hot.
Tell me it’s cold? I now laugh in your general direction. True, I don’t go outside long enough to appreciate the zero-ness of the weather. But when I do, you can bet I’m wearing 18,000 layers of clothes. So I do a’ight. Moral of the story: I’m liking the cold more than the hot. I didn’t think I’d like the cold more than the hot, but I do. Especially when our 70 degree summer comes around and the beach on the lake is calling our names.
Speaking of lake, let me share one of our new winter activities with chew. First, some background. Here is a picture of bee-yoo-tiful Lake Pend Oreille during the summer:
Lovely, right? Who wouldn’t want to live here?
And here is a picture of Lake Pend Oreille right now:
And here is a picture of the Harrisons standing on water, just like I always knew we could:
And here is a picture of our new game:
In which we run and slide. It’s not a very difficult game.
This game on the other hand…
Is a tad more complicated. First, instruct child to lay on the saucer. Second, grab the child by the ankles. Third…
You can guess the third step.
We’re scheduling a tubing session on Schweitzer mountain soon. So don’t cry for me, Argentina…the winter here isn’t too shabby. At least not enough to send me back to you-know-where.
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Looks like a great time! And you could also use that sled trick for transporting bodies - I’m just saying that in case someone pisses you off…
o.k. I will admit it… I have turned into a WEAK SOUTH TEXAN!! I am going to use the excuse of a terrible cold, but I had not ventured out of my warm (often too warm for my tastes) cozy suburban nest.
Today we went out (after noon of course when roads had started re-opening) because in south TX sleet and freezing rain is serious enough to shut down not one or two, but three interstate highways, and the outer loop around this small hamlet of 1.5 million folks.
I who have traversed the chills of the great north, living in Alaska for five years and two children later, and even visiting Idaho last winter during the single digit days prior to Christmas have fallen to the TX low of wearing tights, jeans, a long sleeved shirt, a wool jacket, a lovely hand-kintted scarf sent to me by my talented daughter-in-law AKA Here-in-Idaho; not one but two pairs of gloves, a fuzzy knit pair and my ever trusty leather ones; topped by my furry coat purchased expressly for my trip to the single digit North Idaho. I should be ashamed of myself!!! I did not go for a stoll in the icy streets of South TX, but got my self into a pre-heated pick-up truck and rode to Target!
Please forgive my weakness and allow me to visit the frozen north yet once again! I feel much better after making this confession, but ya know what - here in South Texas “Baby it’s Cold Outside, ya’hear!”
That sled game looks fun.
It’s -40 here. WE don’t go outside.
So, like…it’s about 32 degrees here, and we’ve all been complaining about freezing our hinies off. You making fun of us??? I think I can take you. LOL
BRING IT OOOOOOONNNNNN!
I have always loved the cold more than the heat. I would love to move to Alaska and spend a few years there.
I HAVE BEEN THERE! I HAVE BEEN THERE! Lake Ceure D’Alene was beautfiul but once we ventured off the beaten path and found Lake Pend Orielle I was in love. Where we were it was SOOO secluded (so it seemed) and the lake was so serene and gorgeous and I was in love.
Anyway, I’m a total weather snob too. I lived in AZ for 15 years, born in Minnesota and when I was a kid winters were REAL WINTERS like with below zero temps, walking to school with zero degree windchills and knee high snow. So I too know the extremes and laugh in the face of danger! HA!!
Oh and I can’t take the heat… I like cold better. When you are hot there isn’t much you can do and getting naken doesn’t make you cooler. But when you are cold, you can layer… and layer.
Sorry, island girl here.. I cannot move or function when its cold. It was 21 degrees in the morning here a couple days ago, (which is UNHEARD of in Cali.) and when my hubby opened the door to let the dog out, a gust of wind came in, hit me (the island girl) and I was rendered frozen for at least 4 minutes. Me no likey cold.
But then again, if I had to choose between cold vs. that midwestern icky “feels like you stepped into a vat of hot water” humid summers, then I choose a frozen ass everytime.
Having grown up in humidity and now spent time in California’s desert heat, I can definitely say without any apprehension that humid heat is ten times worse. There is no soul sucking in desert heat. Soul burning, perhaps (but that might just be because it’s California). But soul sucking? No.
haha, they shut school down here wednesday because it was 25 degrees. i believe you said 22 was down right balmy in idaho. i mean will probably puts his shirt on when it gets to 20. we are expecting another “winter storm” this weekend.
rules for driving on ice or snow for stupid north texans
1. drive slow
2. remember to drive slow
3. always obey rules 1 and 2
have a good one.
I’m really confused here??? Why do you have a map of AFRICA up when you are not wanting ARGENTINA not to cry for you??? The cold has frozen up my brain??? “’splain pleeze Lucy!”