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Where are those warm furry kitties when you need them?
Refusing to budge off the radiator, and quite sensibly.
Here in Southern California yesterday it was 76° but with the wind chill it felt more like 72°.
(Sorry, I always hate myself for doing that to my friends in colder climes, but it’s the only thing we have to brag about anymore. Weather being the only thing that can escape the clutches of our incompetent politicians.)
I’m wearing gloves indoors. I took them off to type this and my hands are going numb.
Maybe you want a pair of those gloves with the fingertips removed? (Like what pep-band players and photographers use.)
Have you got snow along with the cold, or just cold?
If Istanbul gets snow, how do they handle snow removal?
Eh, not if they can help it. They’re working on it.
(Sorry, I always hate myself for doing that to my friends in colder climes, but it’s the only thing we have to brag about anymore. Weather being the only thing that can escape the clutches of our incompetent politicians.) ·Dec 12 at 8:31am
Here’s the message I sent to friends yesterday: TO ALL MY FRIENDS BACK EAST AND IN THE MIDWEST: It’s about 80 degrees here today in Southern California and I just wanted to say I’m sorry about that. Had to run the sprinklers today to keep my lawn from drying out. I was thinking of inviting Al Gore and Michael Moore over for BBQ so they could gloat but don’t know if there’s a herd of cattle handy.
Claire Berlinski, Ed.
I’m wearing gloves indoors. I took them off to type this and my hands are going numb.
Have you got snow along with the cold, or just cold?
If Istanbul gets snow, how do they handle snow removal? ·Dec 12 at 8:37am
I can see snow on the hills in Asia from my window, but so far none in my neighborhood. How do they handle snow removal? You know, I don’t think they do. When it snows, the city is just … covered in snow. It looks like this.
How do they handle snow removal? You know, I don’t think they do. When it snows, the city is just … covered in snow. It looks like this. ·Dec 12 at 9:03am
Wow. This picture is particularly alluring. Makes me want to visit…
Tonight’s forecast for Minneapolis is minus-10 F. Istanbul sounds tropical by comparison.
According to this, it’s only in the fifties in Cancún. So don’t feel too bad, Claire. The imam bayıldı isn’t as good either, I hear. http://mobile.theweek.com/article/index/210181/irony-alert-the-unusually-chilly-global-warming-summit
Here’s the message I sent to friends yesterday: TO ALL MY FRIENDS BACK EAST AND IN THE MIDWEST: It’s about 80 degrees here today in Southern California and I just wanted to say I’m sorry about that.
It will get up near 60 today, and will be back up to 80 later in the week. Here in Texas, we don’t have to trade political insanity for warm winters.
Never Forget;
Climate Change is what you call Global Warming when you Global Warming Summit has been Snowed Out!
Or, Long Live the Gore Effect.
Sorry, I didn’t get to this earlier, I slept in. But if your apartment is water heated (cats sitting on radiators is a clue) it heats up very slowly. Thing to do is turn on your oven and open the oven door. Your kitchen, or what passes for it in Istanbul, will be toasty in no time. The point being don’t kvetch do. (Don’t ‘cha love Yiddish. The only word that better describes what’s going on is the b-word that CofC prohibits.)
Oh and remember this tip, it could save your life. In extreme cold, if you are stuck in the outdoors and there is snow around, bury yourself in the danged snow. The ambient temperature can fall to forty or fifty below zero, but the snow you bury yourself under will act as an insulator and the temperature where you lay buried will remain around 32 degrees F (the freezing point of water).
To quote Robert Service, a great Canadian poet and author of the Cremation of Sam McGhee: And that very night as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow/ And the dogs were fed and the stars overhead were dancing heal and toe.
So, now you know this is ancient wisdom, and not just me spouting-off. Oh! and never travel through winter conditions without at least having a full change of warm clothes, long underwear, sweaters, parkas in the trunk of the car right next to fire-making equipment such as matches and candles. T’is no joke, folks, the cold will kill you fast.
Brian Watt
Here’s the message I sent to friends yesterday: TO ALL MY FRIENDS BACK EAST AND IN THE MIDWEST: It’s about 80 degrees here today in Southern California and I just wanted to say I’m sorry about that.
Oh fine…rub it in, why don’t you.
Why not head Down Under?
In my part of the world the max forecast today is 29 degrees celsius… and possible showers…
No white Christmas here. But we have beaches… lots of ’em.
I think Etoile lives on the South side of town. We’re expecting something more like -15 F. To go, of course, with the 2 feet of new snow.
I think we’re moving to Istanbul.
Well, certainly nice to see them once again holding summits in places where there’s little danger of embarrassing cold weather.