TBT OB version. Remember Christmas of 1989

yep, remember it well

I was a student at USL and duck hunted on public land behind Jake Delhomme's house (Breaux Bridge)

wood duck were abundant as they would hit the ice and slide trying to land

I don't remember the year, but somewhere around that time the brackish marsh in cameron parish froze solid enough to walk on...

fricking crazy to see ducks bounce after you shot them...

Told this tale many a time here.....was so cold, that the one of the only "unfrozen" waters around the river parishes was the hot water canal that ran from the sugar mill to the swamp behind east St. John. My best friends little brothers came back from robin hunting (w/pellet guns) w/several mallards. He told us the canal was full of them. He wasn't lying, and at age 17, I wasn't worried about game laws too
much. It's without a doubt the easiest ducks I've ever killed, and also the most demonstrative event evidencing my lack of concern about game laws at 17.

It was 83, and it didn't get above 25 up here for like 10 days. The plumbers made bank. Our lake finally froze over after about a week. If you could stand it, and I'm talking about low teens with 10-15 mph winds, the ducks were here for the taking, until the lake froze. Was driving to B.R. for Christmas on hwy. 28 and while crossing the Calcasiue(sp), a flight of greys hit right by the bridge. Only open water.

Pretty sure I got a sit and spin and a some micky mouse stuff that year.

Don't remember which one it was but it was crew change for me in Hopedale & the snow started falling when we made it to New Orleans. Big wreck on hwy 61 delayed us 4 hours. People in the ditches everywhere. About an hour from my house on a very remote backroad was a guy standing in the middle of the road waving us down. This guy had New York plates & had snow skies on top of his car which was in the ditch He said he's seen a lot of ice but nothing compared to that shite. Pulled him out & helped him get to a hotel. A couple days after the river (Boeuf) was frozen over All you had to find was a puddle that wasn't frozen to kill a limit quickly

Have a camp on the W Pearl river. Christmas night, launched at Davis Landing, while running in the canal to the river, we were breaking ice. Got to the camp, flip the light switch, no power, uncle says lets go home. Tried to convince him to stay since we had propane heat in the camp, then he put the flash light on a frozen solid gallon of water.. Tells me, I can tollerate the dark, but I'm not freezing in the dark....

Ran back to the launch, the canal was frozen over again and we broke ice coming back...

That was my last year at SLU, from what I remember, that front came through on the 22nd of December and it snowed it's *** off. Got stuck on Central Ave for 2 hours in a blizzard. Sat in my '80 Supra the whole time time, thank God I had gas and a working heater...

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Keow. It was cold down here.....8 degreeish lows for about 4 days.

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I would think that kind of cold probably killed off a lot of the gators and legless reptiles?

Edited to add that the winter of 85-86 was the coldest I've ever experienced. It got down to -31 here. Had a calf born that night, too. 12 inches of snow on the ground really helped prevent a lot of freeze damage. Step outside and you could hear trees popping. Sounded like .22 long rifles goin off. Never experienced anything like that before or since. Stayed bitter cold for about a week. Don't see how RogerTheShrubber stands that Alaska cold.