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So, so cold
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TheOtherHockeyMom
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I've always liked this...although I've seen a few different versions and can't find my favorite:
I'd also have to say that Subarus might be the exception, I've started mine at below -35 C.
+ 20 C The Greeks get on their sweaters (if they can find).
+ 15 C The Hawaiians turn on the heat (if they have).
+ 10 C The Americans shake with cold. The Russians plant cucumbers in kitchen gardens.
+ 5 C You can see your breathing. Italian cars don’t start.
+ 2 C The Norwegians go to the beach. The Russians roll down car windows.
0 C The water freezes solid in the USA. The water gets denser in Russia.
- 5 C French cars don’t start.
- 10 C You plan to spend your holiday in Maldives.
- 15 C Your cat sleeps in your bed. The Norwegians get on their sweaters.
- 18 C Householders in New York turn on the heat. The Russians go on a picnic for the last time in the season.
- 20 C American cars don’t start. People in Alaska put on T-shirts.
- 25 C German cars don’t start. The Hawaiians have died out.
- 30 C The politicians talk about homeless people. Your cat sleeps in your pajamas.
- 35 C It’s too cold to think. Japan cars don’t start.
- 40 C You’re planning two-week bath. Swedish cars don’t start.
- 42 C The European public transport doesn’t function. The Russians eat ice cream in the street.
- 45 C The Greeks have died out. The politicians start doing something for homeless people actually.
- 50 C Eyelids freeze together while you blink. People in Alaska close ventilator window in the bathroom
- 60 C White bears move to the South.
- 70 C The Hell has frozen.
- 75 C The Finnish special mission units evacuate Santa Claus from Lapland. The Russians get on their caps with ear flaps (“ushankas”.
- 80 C The lawyers put their hands into their own pockets.
- 114 C Alcohol has frozen. The Russians are in the blues.
- 273 C Absolute zero, atomic motion stops.
I'd also have to say that Subarus might be the exception, I've started mine at below -35 C.
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It's so cold outside the chickens are begging KFC to fry them up.
It's so cold I seen penguins at Wal-Mart buying heaters!
It's so cold, my cold left me.
It's so cold I seen penguins at Wal-Mart buying heaters!
It's so cold, my cold left me.
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Are you asking me, WA? If so, the citrus avoided a freeze this year. It got down there for a week or so, the farmers had to use fans, but the crops were fine.
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When I was younger, one of my favorite movies was Chinatown, and I always had this sort of idyllic idea of all of these orange groves around LA. Then the year after I graduated from university, I worked as a nanny for this Hollywood couple, and the mother had come from a family that had actually owned some of those orange groves and she grew up among them.
I was slightly devastated to find out that they did not exist any more, although I guess it should have been obvious if I thought about it that a big city like that would have grown over them after all that time.
Its funny the ideas you get about places from movies.
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In San Diego - she said one man was going to fly over his groves to keep heat on them. Small helicopter i think.
Some reported they were going to water them so ice froze over top of the roots and sealed them.
Glad nothing happened.
How about the advocados? Love them.
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I never knew the nanny thing; that is so interesting, Meghan!
We have TONS of oranges here in the Central Valley. Visalia, my town, is about 3 hours north of Los Angeles area. We are the agricultural powerhouse of the entire country. When you drive outside of our town there are orange fields for miles and miles. It's incredible. Everyone, I mean everyone, has an orange tree or lemon tree around here. and if you don't have one, your neighbor has two and gives you all you can eat LOL
my backyard has pluot trees, peaches (Albertas and Babcocks both), Santa Rosa plums, lemons, grape vines, nectarines, you name it.....
Orange County down south no longer really has oranges! It's pretty much snob plastic surgery jaded elitist county now LOL
We have TONS of oranges here in the Central Valley. Visalia, my town, is about 3 hours north of Los Angeles area. We are the agricultural powerhouse of the entire country. When you drive outside of our town there are orange fields for miles and miles. It's incredible. Everyone, I mean everyone, has an orange tree or lemon tree around here. and if you don't have one, your neighbor has two and gives you all you can eat LOL
my backyard has pluot trees, peaches (Albertas and Babcocks both), Santa Rosa plums, lemons, grape vines, nectarines, you name it.....
Orange County down south no longer really has oranges! It's pretty much snob plastic surgery jaded elitist county now LOL
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Fluctuating between 14-16 degrees right now. Add in the wind chills and you're looking at negative temperatures.
The best part?
It's supposed to get colder tomorrow. Yay, more vodka!
Full Metal Alchemist?
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