DUers down south - staying warm?

[LynneSin]

I saw photos of what's happening in Northern Florida and area. Getting hit with snow of all things.

Stay safe and warm!

[tavernier]

1. I'm in the Keys

I apologize.

[bamademo]

2. I think I hate you. :-(

18 here in N. Alabama.

[Scuba]

4. I'm growing less fond of you also ...

It's minus 19 here in east central Wisconsin. Without the windchill.

[tavernier]

6. 74

[Scuba]

7. Bite me.

[Boom Sound 416]

15. Would be happy to be sitting in the no name pub right about now

And fishing off the old wooden bridge

[tavernier]

19. I'm not quite that far down, Boom

but I will toast you at Snappers in Key Largo in another couple of hours.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I'm not quite that far south, but it was in the teens this morning. Sunday we enjoyed 73F.

I'm sick of chapped lips, chapped hands and cold feet. Eighty degrees can't come soon enough to suit me. I'd much rather sweat than shiver.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. My mother agrees with you

She hates winter with a passion.

[RebelOne]

22. Sorry, but I would rather shiver than sweat.

I would rather have freezing temperatures in winter than boiling hot temperatures in the summer. Right now in North Georgia it is snowing with the temperature in the middle 20s. But I am not complaining even though my heating bill is going to be astronomical, but not much more than the A/C in the summer.

[hobbit709]

5. It's sleeting here in Austin.

We've had more below freezing days so far this winter than there's been in years.

[ananda]

27. I hear you!

This long long cold spell is really getting old.

Of course, this would be practically summer
a bit north.

[aikoaiko]

9. Lots of locals in Savannah are freakin out.

Yankee transplants like me put on a windbreaker.

In truth, we could get ice and that will take down limbs and knock out power. That will make for a chilly day or two.

[Submariner]

10. 67 here in South Maui

at zero dark thirty, but should hit 80 later today.

Thanks for your concern for us southerners. You keep warm too.

[LynneSin]

20. Oh just rub it in to the poor Florida & Texas DUers all chilly

from freezing temperatures

[kentauros]

30. It's not that we're chilly.

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It's that we're not acclimated to more than a few days at a time in cold temps.

Normal winter, at least for us in Houston is a few days of cold temps after a front, and then warming to upper 70s and low 80s for another few days. Then another front for another few days of cold, and so on.

What we've had this winter since late fall is one front after another after another after another, with next to no warming in between. We are absolutely sick of it. And I know some of y'all that get snow every year also get sick of that.

So, try not to compare how well y'all are with cold temps and I'll try not to welcome you to Houston in the middle of August during a drought and with a Cat-5 hurricane on the way

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Last night and even this am it was warmer than it is now..

I jsut can't get used to feeling the temps drop like a rock in a matter of minutes.
esp. when today gets colder as the hours go bye.
It trying real hard to snow, but just ice pellets right now, in SW Al.
come tomorrow the roads are going to be a mess.
Thankfully, we stocked up and can sit warmly until the promised warm up in a couple days.

the good news we get a blast of winter, rarely for more than a few days
and do not have to bear it for weeks and weeks.

[texanwitch]

24. It will be in theb70's in a few days.

Weird weather.

[Phentex]

12. It's finally snowing!

I'm so excited!

[Raffi Ella]

17. YAY.

and it's starting to stick!

[Phentex]

21. and it appears everybody decided to get home at the same time...

roads are jammed.

[Blue_Tires]

13. freezing my balls off....

[mnhtnbb]

14. Expecting the snow to start late this afternoon

with accumulation of 2-4". We (Chapel Hill, NC) usually get a snow like that every couple of years,
but usually it melts right away.

We are not used to the temps staying in the teens or dropping to single digits!

[OriginalGeek]

16. It IS a bit chilly today

I'm glad I wore a long sleeved shirt

[fleur-de-lisa]

18. Mixed rain and sleet just started . . .

here in New Orleans. We can't drive in this stuff! Guess I'm not going anywhere!

[lame54]

29. Here too in NC

[texanwitch]

23. It is cold in Houston about 30 but feels like the 20's.

We had sleet, rain, and a little snow in some places. Tonight should be about 24. We seemed to have gotten the tail end of this storm. It is cold here.

[Grammy23]

25. It's 31 in Pensacola with wind chill of 22 as I write this.

The bird feeder (which I refilled this a.m.) and has had exactly ONE visitor now has icicles forming off of its roof. The patio chairs and table are covered in a coating of ice that keeps building up and the icicles are getting longer.

So yeah, it's a cold day here in NW Florida. Roads are probably not going to be easy to navigate and we really don't have the equipment to do massive mitigation against the icing on bridges and overpasses. Best defense for most of us is to just stay home. And that's what my husband and I are doing.

It will be really cold (for here) another day and by the weekend we'll be back in the 60s. Maybe close to 70. Not rubbing it in for the rest of you guys who won't see temps like that for months. Just saying, the weather here can swing wildly back and forth and usually does in a typical winter. But this winter has been a pip in that regard. Probably one of the coldest we've had in many a year.

[Callmecrazy]

26. Got up to about 80 here in Fort Lauderdale...

And it was a little humid today after the morning fog burned off.

Not that I'm complaining, but I've been going through a lot of sunscreen this winter and I still have a tan. And I'm sitting in shorts and a tee shirt right now.

[Glorfindel]

28. Bitterly cold here in south Mississippi - low 20's right now

Freezing rain and sleet are falling and beginning to accumulate. Everything's closed. Very little traffic. More freezing precip. predicted for tonight and tomorrow. I'm staying warm, and thanks for asking! Spring can't come soon enough for me.

[orleans]

33. chicago news ran a clip from (i think it was) mississippi

showing cars stuck in ditches and saying they have no salt or plows and someone (governor maybe?) was telling people to just stay off the roads.

[kentauros]

34. Our infrastructure down here

is set up for flooding, not freezing. We'll get heavy rains that flood the roads, and then in a few hours, they're clear again. Snow doesn't do that, and because it snows or freezes so infrequently here, there's no call for keeping that kind of equipment around, much less buying it in the first place.

Plus, no one has tires that are for frozen surfaces, or the experience to drive in such conditions, unless they're a transplant. And then they also learn to stay off the roads or get hit by inexperienced drivers

[orleans]

36. yeah, those video clips on the news certainly didn't make it look pretty.

but even around chicago it always seems like the first snowfall of the season and people drive like friggin idiots as if they've forgotten how to drive in snow even though they were doing it only eight or nine months before.

it's like the first snowfall is the practice one for folks here. and that's the one i try to avoid driving in.

[kentauros]

38. That's funny and sad at the same time.

Maybe have a "practice car" that you don't care about getting hit during those first few days or week...

[jakeXT]

31. Interesting

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/live-southern-snow-ice-force-t/22639719

[tavernier]

32. I do feel terrible, but...

isn't there some way to cut off the traffic??
I haven't seen a Florida plate in two months!

Hey! No yelling! I don't go to Minnesota over hurricane season !!

[kentauros]

35. The only time I've seen anything shut down and blocked

was when the police here shut down all of our freeways (I'm in Houston; we have freeways everywhere) after an ice storm iced every bridge (ice storm of early 2011.) The surface roads were fine because we had not endured below-freezing temps for more than 72-hours. So, the ground wasn't frozen, not that the media bothered telling anyone about that important fact.

Nonetheless, there were still enough people on the roads to cause over 750 accidents as reported that day

[steve2470]

37. snowing in northwest Florida right now

I'm 300 miles southeast of that in central Florida, so I'm pretty warm.

[jakeXT]

39. Missing the correct tools

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/28/us/winter-weather/

[taterguy]

40. No