Speaking of CHristmas Freezes! 1983 and 1989.

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I don't remember hunting 83, but I think that was the event that set a 24 hour temp change record for both Montana and Louisiana. It just poured in from the Arctic.

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Yes, and the WIND. One of my tribal best friends lost a cousin that day, ran into his cousin and the guy he died with late the night before.

1983 we rode 3 wheelers on top of sloughs at the camp. Ice was 4-6" thick over 4 ft of water. Yamaha 225 pinned in 5th gear and was moving about 5 mph actual speed, tires grew to about double their normal height

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One of these had to have been when North Louisiana was below freezing for like 10 days in a row, I remember riding 3 wheelers on my grandad's pond on the ice.

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I was a kid. I rode a 185s on Bussey Brake.

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Hunted both and both were epic

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I was a Senior in high school in '89. We absolutely slaughtered the ducks. That was when the limit was 3. I think we were still on the the points system and Mallard drakes were 35 so you could only kill 2 and a kicker. Our buddies dad was one of the owners of Pin Oak Mallards out on Highway 15 East of Monroe and you couldn't fit another Mallard in that place. We were the 2nd shift for almost a week. It was fun but the other owner Ace Cullum wanted us out as quick as we limited because he could be an arse back in them days. It literally took like 20 minutes to limit and there were usually 5 or 6 of us. There were so many ducks they kept the holes open. Then we found a place on the back side of the old reservoir that was being kept open by runoff, which I figured sewage since it stunk worse than Wham Brake. It was technically not on Pin Oaks so we hunted that spot every afternoon. Yes, there were some rules broken and Holy frick it was cold. I think it was single digits highs for almost a week in Monroe. I laugh when I go home for Christmas now and watch the weather because every day the record low was set in 1989 for almost every day.

The only thing I remember about 1983 is we rode a 3 wheeler across Tupwaw Bayou in West Monroe behind my Paw Paw's house. It seemed insane at the time and probably was but that ice was thick.

83 was incredible

I had broken pipes all over the place

Drove my car into an embankment in parking lot uptown after my car lost control because the parking lot was frozen over

1989
chunks of ice were floating down the miss river in Baton Rouge

My partner fell in Beouf River in 1983, a little north of Three Rivers Campground. The high that day was 15 degrees. He let me out on the bank while he worked on the little outboard motor. He finally got it started and I didn't see him until later that afternoon, in a hospital bed.
He had lost control of the little aluminum boat and went down. Fought his way to the bank. Took off his wet clothes and laid down in some weeds and straw. Realizing this was a bad idea, he got up and found he was on a little island. He then got back in the water and made it to the bank. Now he had to walk across a bean field to hwy 4, where he was picked up and rushed to the ER.

deer out in sun every where in open fields trying to warm up

Dec 24-25, 1983

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A long duration freeze event in the area with numerous pipes bursting. BTR had more than 60 consecutive hours below freezing. NEW was below freezing for 3 days. MSY 17F/32F on 24th, 14F/27F on 25th, morning low 18F on 26th; BTR 11F/25F on 25th; GPT 11F/28F on 25th.

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Dec 22-25, 1989

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Temperatures fell below 32F the night of the 21st and remained below freezing until the afternoon of the 24th. 1" of snow fell at MSY on the 23rd. Four consecutive hard freeze nights in the area. Lake ice formed near shore on area lakes with large fish kills. Morning lows 11F on 23rd, 15F on 24th; BTR 8F on 23rd, 10F on 24th; GPT 9F on 23rd and 24th.

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