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re: Old Timers, Tell me about the coldest Front you remember
Posted on 1/2/14 at 1:46 pm to Tiger Ryno
Posted on 1/2/14 at 1:46 pm to Tiger Ryno
1989. I believe that was around the same time Exxon went kaboom. Christmas Eve??? I was 8 years old at the time so it's a little fuzzy.
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Posted on 1/2/14 at 2:09 pm to Unobtanium
Yup. 89. Rez froze over. Tape player in car was too cold to work.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 2:46 pm to prplhze2000
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Tape player in car was too cold to work.
Had a old Ford Bronco and couldn't get a key into key hole because the door locks were frozen. 4 wheelers that got used in a rice field had wheels lock up tighter than a nun's puss. Fun times
Posted on 1/2/14 at 2:54 pm to Tiger Ryno
1983 in Shreveport. The Red River froze solid.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 2:57 pm to Tiger Ryno
All I know is that I am waking up to negative temps tomorrow morning and I am not happy one bit.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 3:01 pm to How I Roll
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1989. I believe that was around the same time Exxon went kaboom. Christmas Eve??? I was 8 years old at the time so it's a little fuzzy
Yep, it was Christmas Eve afternoon. I was about the same age as you. We lived about 5 miles from the plant and the explosion cracked our front window and cement driveway. I'll never forget going to Christmas Eve mass in downtown BR and seeing the giant black cloud of smoke coming from Exxon. I think the low that morning was between 8 - 10 degrees
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Posted on 1/2/14 at 3:11 pm to fatboydave
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I was checking out of the hotel the next morning and the Illinois fans were laughing that they were "closing" New Orleans because there was frost on windows
That's like going to N MN in July and seeing them all falling out because it hits 86. They aren't any more set up for heat than we are for cold.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 3:15 pm to Unobtanium
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December 1989 - temp's reached 7 degrees IIRC.
This. I had come home from military training from Missouri hoping for good weather. I got this.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 5:01 pm to Alt26
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e lived about 5 miles from the plant and the explosion cracked our front window and cement driveway.
I lived downtown at the time and lost half a dozen windows plus one toilet bowl.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 5:07 pm to Tiger Ryno
8 degrees in January of 83. Bouef River in NELA froze solid.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 5:19 pm to Layabout
Decembers '83 and '89 were brutal. Haven't seen that kind of cold in TX/LA since. It takes very special circumstances, including lots of snow cover in the plains, to get that sort of cold along the gulf coast.
Parts of corpus christi bay froze over in '83. Frozen fish washed on shore by the thousands. Shite was cray. I remember watching some poor sap on the news open a bottle of frozen penzoil in Alaska when it was -60. It just gooped out like a coke slurpee.
Parts of corpus christi bay froze over in '83. Frozen fish washed on shore by the thousands. Shite was cray. I remember watching some poor sap on the news open a bottle of frozen penzoil in Alaska when it was -60. It just gooped out like a coke slurpee.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 5:21 pm to Jim Rockford
Early 80s we had a foot of snow on the ground and was out of electricity for a week. It was snowing so hard you couldn't see 10 feet in front of you. The flakes were big a silver dollars. All the ponds froze over. We could easily walk across them.
Don't remember the temps but we all had to sleep on the floor in front of the fire place.
There were several ice storms that came through in the 80s seemed like every year we got one.
Don't remember the temps but we all had to sleep on the floor in front of the fire place.
There were several ice storms that came through in the 80s seemed like every year we got one.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 5:24 pm to TejasHorn
89 was awesome! Snow ball fights in Thibodaux. Went to my 1st Saints game that weekend. That was the year they benched Bobby Hebert for the last few games and John Fourcade and co. Destroyed the Colts. We went to my uncle's house in Stnebridge after the game. He lived on the Golf Course and the ponds were frozen solid enough for us to go play on the ice.
This post was edited on 1/2/14 at 5:25 pm
Posted on 1/2/14 at 6:36 pm to dpd901
i think it was 1960 or 61 and the temperature got down to 11 or 12 in NOLA...
that started the decline of the citrus industry in Plaquemines Parish...
that started the decline of the citrus industry in Plaquemines Parish...
Posted on 1/2/14 at 6:40 pm to Tiger Ryno
Dec 83 it stayed below freezing for about a week. The deer went bezerk
This post was edited on 1/2/14 at 6:41 pm
Posted on 1/2/14 at 6:57 pm to vl100butch
I remember that front. It started sleeting onfriday in north la. Then it froze. Out of school for a week. Glorious.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 8:03 pm to SFVtiger
Definitely Christmas Eve '89, Got called out to work right after the explosion. Didn't get another day off for over a month.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 8:33 pm to OldTigahFot
I remember 89 as being goofy cold, but it was cold as shite in BR in February(?) 1996, too. It was 20s for highs and teens for lows for about a week.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 9:35 pm to Tiger Ryno
early to mid 80's in NOLA. Definitely low teens of not brief singles at night. Many pipes bursting in many of those raised homes.
I still delivered.
I still delivered.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 9:39 pm to Tiger Ryno
1983. Red River froze over completely in Shreveport. High temps in the month of December never got over 32 degrees.
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