Community Chat

[Laura14]

@gidgetgh That was before my time. I was still in Jersey. Glad you have prepared. Stay safe and toasty! 

[cjm61]

Be safe everyone and I truly hope it doesn't mess up Christmas or Holiday plans. My daughter left Denver last night around 5:00, delayed 90 minutes, and was lucky to even fly out. They were told flights were going to start getting cancelled in a matter of hours.

The Denver airport was crazy, even when I picked her up in San Diego there were more cars than I have ever seen. She is going to soak up our 80's weather before heading back next week. 

They are calling this storm an Arctic Bomb Cyclone and it only happens once in a generation. Why does it happen on one of the busiest travel times of the year, Christmas! Be safe everyone. 

[SilleeMee]

It's TEN BELOW and I don't know what the wind chill temp is but it doesn't really matter when it's this cold anyways.

My house is well-insulated, I've got good windows also...TG! But yesterday when I heard that tonight will be dipping down to SEVENTEEN BELOW that's when I covered up some of my windows with heavy blankets just to keep out the cold even more. When it's that cold there isn't any kind of window that will prevent the cold from coming in. 

Thank goodness this cold blast will be out of here by this weekend.

[chrystaltree]

@SilleeMee wrote:

It's TEN BELOW and I don't know what the wind chill temp is but it doesn't really matter when it's this cold anyways.

My house is well-insulated, I've got good windows also...TG! But yesterday when I heard that tonight will be dipping down to SEVENTEEN BELOW that's when I covered up some of my windows with heavy blankets just to keep out the cold even more. When it's that cold there isn't any kind of window that will prevent the cold from coming in. 

Thank goodness this cold blast will be out of here by this weekend.

Now THAT is what I call cold.  

[Sooner]

9:20 a.m. 4 degrees in Oklahoma City area down to 0 along the northen border with Kansas, wind chill below -20.  

[sann]

It arrived at my house early this morning temp is currently 4 degrees...today is trash pickup day in my neighborhood as you can only imagine trash cans have blown over and my goodness what a mess.....

[granddi]

@On It Good thing is that most of West Texas is not on the now famous GRID. We are just fingers crossed that there will be no power failures. Wish people would do their part to conserve power like turn off your outdoor Christmas lights. 

[ValuSkr]

Good luck!  I hope West Texas homes have furnaces.

[On It]

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@granddi wrote:

@On It Good thing is that most of West Texas is not on the now famous GRID. We are just fingers crossed that there will be no power failures. Wish people would do their part to conserve power like turn off your outdoor Christmas lights. 

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Unfortunately our area just joined the infamous grid this year. I tried to explain to anyone who would listen before the grid crashed in 2021. We lived outside of San Antonio for many years and experienced brown outs in the hottest times of the summer. At least two per day for rolling blackouts was common on critical days.

My neighbors seem oblivious. Decorative lights are on as we speak. Here's hoping the grid holds.

[rockygems123]

@cjm61 

You are so right your daughter was lucky to be on a flight out of here, so many were cancelled.  That's great she has a warm up in CA and returning back to Denver next week it'll be back to mid to high 50's.