Where Is The “Climate Emergency”?

We have a climate emergency. Where I live, we will be 10F below the average temps for this time of year for at least a week...... It's F'in cold here.....

 

Same here.

 

It's cold here too. It won't get above 50 f today.

 

It's 20 degrees here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Tried to tell my wife it's too cold to take the dogs for a walk or out to the property to run for an hour or so.

She wasn't buying any of that crap. So, I took them to the property. Dang things went swimming in the pond.

Apparently global warming doesn't bother them.

 

That’s Civil War weather.

 

I grew up in the Detroit area. Here it was 13 degrees when I woke up. Still 40 degrees above the all time low of my life, but still.....

 

I grew up in the Upper Peninsula - Ishpeming. I recall going to school one winter morning at - 32F. Went to Michigan Tech and played basketball. Freshman year was in Bemidji Minnesota to play Bemidji State. The night before it was - 78F with the wind chill.

 

A fellow Michigander!

Not to derail the thread, but how about them Lions?

Or are you a Packers fan?

 

Did you grow up there?

Always a Lions fan although most yoopers are Packers fans. I remember 1957 - I was 8 years old Maybe a repeat in 2025?

 

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The Yale Lary football card was memorable. Full extension punting.
I grew up in Indiana so I had my pick of Midwest teams. Bart Starr was my favorite player.

 

Yes, I did. I was born in Salt Lake City (oldest of 4 kids) but we moved to Dearborn, MI in 1967 when I was 6. First major sports memory was the Tiger's 1968 World Series. Met and married a sweet, young lady whose family came from Norton, VA in 1987 and we moved here to Virginia in 1998. Been here ever since.

But still a diehard Lions, Tigers, Red Wings, Pistons, and Wolverines fan to this day.

As we say these days, "Win one before I die"!

Good to know I don't have to hate you now.

 

As long as you didn't come from Columbus, OH, I don't have to hate you either.

 

Small town in southern Indiana.

 

Graduated from high school in 1967. First college basketball game was in Detroit against Wayne State Tartars - now the more politically correct Warriors. Second college basketball game was in Ypsilanti against the Eastern Michigan Hurons - now the more politically correct Eagles. Now nobody knows what a Tartar and Huron is.

Yes - Lions, Pistons, Tigers, Red Wings, but I always like the Spartans more for some reason.

 

I remember that football card. I had a lot of the 1950's Lions and a lot more but my Mom took them all to the church bazaar sale after I had moved out. We visited when our kids were small and I was going to show them all my old cards but they were all gone. Ouch. Liked the Lions but also liked all the Packers players.

 

OK, last off-topic post. Many of my classmates when I graduated in 1979 went to Wayne State, a well-recognized engineering school as well as a decent music school.

Myself, I got my undergraduate degree from Eastern Michigan. Both schools will be Tartars and Hurons for me for the rest of my life.

And my MBA came from Michigan. And the Spartans still suck.