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Gabe1

Gabe1

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Cesar R M said:
Actually, if you see the the weather patterns in satellite imagin.. the north pole has been unusually hot. All the cold was somehow pushed towards the US east coast.
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Ahem. I don't think so. We are the Great Midwest and I only wish the cold went to the East Coast. (sorry guys nothing personal.) It has been in negative temps for so long already and it is currently 5 degrees and falling. The current of the North Pole is 8, me I don't view 8 degrees as hot. Some of the East Coast is warmer than we are.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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RedNoseMickey said:
My brother and his family went back to Australia yesterday.:cry:
It was difficult saying goodbye as I don't know when I will see them again. It was especially hard on my mom as she thinks this might have been the last time she got to see them. We usually see my brother and his family every years or so and my mom is not in the best of health.:(
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*pixie dust*

my MIL was killing my FIL off with her, this maybe his last year for 20 years....My Dad had himself being dead by Christmas since he retired at age 62. He lived until he was 87. Hope your Mom stays well. :inlove:
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
Where did they claim there is a connection? I saw that Circle of Life is closing, but what I read didn't give any information about a replacement or about a Brazil pavilion.
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I've seen it posted on twitter and other websites even yesterday. Look on google earth. Where the Brazilian pavilion is rumored to be placed there are trailers off stage back there for rehearsal purposes. Those must go for a pavilion. The rehearsal area it is being said will be relocated to The Circle of Life. There are so many empty venues in Epcot from Canada, Odyssey, Millennium Center, WoL, half the Imagination building, 3rd floor of the American Building along with the Innovation spaces. I understand to remove the trailers IF they actually build a new Pavilion (Brazil has been known to tease Disney for decades so who knows if this one will stick) Ican live without Circle of Life but do not like the practice of removing attractions for lounges, meet and greets and now for CMs rehearsal arena.


MySmallWorldof4 said:
Agree. I remember winters in NYC where there were loads of snow storms, particularly in 1993-94. That was the year dh and I started dating. We would have
We don't use noise to sleep and we spend so little time in a hotel room, we don't watch much TV. I can see it being handy in a storm situation where you're stuck inside, but for us, for normal use, I can't see us getting our money's worth. I bet it's great with little ones though.
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I have a tv going at home or in a hotel as I drift off to sleep.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I saw some comments connecting the two as well on Facebook, I'm not sure where people get their thoughts sometimes.:confused:
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The place I first read it seems to have some well vetted sources. Even if Brazil backs out apparently the CMs are moving their rehearsal spot. So another family attraction bites the bullet in the Land.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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Goofyernmost said:
They may have fallen from the branches but, they aren't necessarily dead. They are cold blooded animals so in the cold weather they "hibernate" at a very low body temporature. That's how all cold blooded animals survive. If it didn't work that way you would never see a snake in the north. The temperature didn't really get below freezing in Florida, just quite cold. It would have to freeze outside for them to actually freeze to death. Now they might chilly to death, but, I doubt it.:):D:cold:
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Pretty much what ya said is what was on the news and in the papers but raining iguanas make for light news stories.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/us/iguana-florida-cold-weather.html
 
Cesar R M

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Gabe1 said:
Ahem. I don't think so. We are the Great Midwest and I only wish the cold went to the East Coast. (sorry guys nothing personal.) It has been in negative temps for so long already and it is currently 5 degrees and falling. The current of the North Pole is 8, me I don't view 8 degrees as hot. Some of the East Coast is warmer than we are.
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This is what I mean:


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https://weather.com/storms/winter/n...eak-forecast-midwest-east-south-early-january


Meanwhile .. We're at 71F (22C) here right now.

Mars is currently hotter than some parts of Canada.
Which is ridiculous.
 
Goofyernmost

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StarWarsGirl said:
What's amazing is I looked it up and we're not even hitting record lows here in Baltimore. It just doesn't seem possible...
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Humans seem to have short memories about things they don't want to think about. The only weather that really counts is the one you are experiencing right now. We forget that things were pretty cold (or hot) in the past. Nothing new, just the timing. I have friends and relatives in Vermont that have no recollection of how cold winter used to be. When I was in college (yes, probably in the ice age) I can remember weeks on end with -20 or worse, non-stop. There used to be a section of January with that. That would be followed by a thaw that we always called an Indian Summer. (Never knew why it was called that.) Then another round of sub zero stuff in February. Then along came March, in like a lion and not always out like a lamb. I recall our worst nor-easters were in March. I think we find when we get older that cold is harder to deal with so it always seems worse then it actually is.
 
StarWarsGirl

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Goofyernmost said:
Humans seem to have short memories about things they don't want to think about. The only weather that really counts is the one you are experiencing right now. We forget that things were pretty cold (or hot) in the past. Nothing new, just the timing. I have friends and relatives in Vermont that have no recollection of how cold winter used to be. When I was in college (yes, probably in the ice age) I can remember weeks on end with -20 or worse, non-stop. There used to be a section of January with that. That would be followed by a thaw that we always called an Indian Summer. (Never knew why it was called that.) Then another round of sub zero stuff in February. Then along came March, in like a lion and not always out like a lamb. I recall our worst nor-easters were in March. I think we find when we get older that cold is harder to deal with so it always seems worse then it actually is.
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This isn't normal for us. Our normal lows are in the 20s, not the single digits. We're not hitting the records, but we're getting pretty darned close. This is Maryland, not Vermont. We're supposed to be in the 30s and 40s. Single digits have happened, but staying this cold for this long has not. At least not in my lifetime, and my young memory is working just fine. ;)
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Goofyernmost said:
Humans seem to have short memories about things they don't want to think about. The only weather that really counts is the one you are experiencing right now. We forget that things were pretty cold (or hot) in the past. Nothing new, just the timing. I have friends and relatives in Vermont that have no recollection of how cold winter used to be. When I was in college (yes, probably in the ice age) I can remember weeks on end with -20 or worse, non-stop. There used to be a section of January with that. That would be followed by a thaw that we always called an Indian Summer. (Never knew why it was called that.) Then another round of sub zero stuff in February. Then along came March, in like a lion and not always out like a lamb. I recall our worst nor-easters were in March. I think we find when we get older that cold is harder to deal with so it always seems worse then it actually is.
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Yep. That is why I gave the examples of the wide range of extremes we had over the last few decades. We tend to put those things aside, me because of my profession tended to remember them. We tend to wrap ourselves up in the current buzz from global warming to climate change. Actually yearly I've experienced climate change in my 55+ years of living from one extreme to the other in every season. Some of us take it in stride from extreme summers to extreme winters or the opposite.

I've watched from a bus at Disney with a single lightening strike a wild fire take place in a pine forest. I also saw one year with a drought everything turn brown that corrected itself the next year. Weather is ever changing each year. Nothing will change my mind, cold is sucidoodles. Still give me 100 degrees and humid and I'm not going to jump for joy over that either as I can add layers but certainly can't take them all off. :eek: We can do the best we can to take care of our environment that powers to be allow us too but beyond that we can just roll with it. :cyclops:
 

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