Spinoff cold weather thread

was unreal.... the wind.... the rapid temp drop. We literally could SEE the water falling while we were at launch and in canal.


and did I mention the wind.......the wind is most likely what stranded every duck hunter that died. I know that was the case for the two in Manchac.

That's just crazy. Not much of a hunter. I went with uncles growing up because my dad wasn't a hunter. I'd like to get into it more now but haven't yet.

What's the coldest you've ever experienced? Doesn't have to be hunting related. The two times I remember most were spring of 93 in the blizzard and January 2014. We were in Lexington for the SEC basketball tourney when the blizzard hit in 93. Nothing but piles of snow everywhere. I was 11 and remember walking back to a bus stop to shuttle back to the hotel after the evening games one night and it was just frigid. I had grown up in south Alabama and we just never got that kind of cold. I'm sure I have experienced colder but being so young and that being the first real exposure to prolonged cold and snow stuck with me.

January 2014 was when we had the ice storm across much of the south. Thankful I had a 4x4 as I was able to get to my wife's job to spend the night then get to our sons daycare the next morning. My daughter got picked up from school with a friend and she spent the night with them. After we got home the next day I tried to drive up to get her home. Some idiot left his car parked in the middle of a road with a steep hill and I couldn't drive the whole way. I had to walk about a mile and a half, uphill there and downhill back. Except my daughter was on my back on the way down. Took me about 45 minutes in the conditions and it was just brutal winds on top of the ice. Then I drove about 20 miles to get my mother in law from a hotel and take her home. Just a crazy couple of days. There were 3 cars stranded at my house. A pickup was parked at the bottom of my driveway and a compact car ran up in my yard and the side had been hit several times by people sliding into it.

I was a youngster in '83 but do remember snow that Christmas, the year I got my Honda 110. '89, I recall breaking ice in my old mans hounds' water buckets and watching the water freeze instantly on the hammer. Also remember 1" thick ice on the brakes where we hunted that year.

I swear I recall a picture in the newspaper from 1983 with ice chunks in the MS River at Natchez, but can't find a pic on the 'net.