2021 Coffee Shop and Gardens

[McGrandpa]

Oh I remember ice and snow when I was like 9 yrs old and younger.  After about 64, we started a nice long warm trend.   Then cold years again.   84-86 were years where Houston had very HARD freezing again.  And as always down there, many din't think it was gonna do that much harm.  They were wrong.   Liquids became solids, and needed to expand and had to make room!  POP!   PVC pipes were the most fun!  That stuff explodes suddenly in real cold. 

[Aelin]

I don't remember if it was the Winter 83 or 84 which was terrible in France. With ice around windows in few houses. But either I was still not born, or I was too young to remember

Excellent end of day guys

[thelufias]

Yup on all counts....

1978 was one rough winter.  We had a few other Winters that were rough...but nothing like 1978....

[McGrandpa]

It struck me as near hilarious at the temp difference at work.  I was in a steel mill, sintering plant.    On the bin hopper floor when the rail cars emptied ore, coke or lime into them, we had to be out there ON the floor juking the stuck stuff in the chutes so it'd keep flowing into the bins.  They are some 90 feet tall, 20 feet diameter.  Juking with long half inch id air pipes with about 130 pounds of pressure.  And we on shift were bundled up for the cold.  Same bundling up we did for the furnace floor.   Only about 800F difference.  HAH!   but that heat was SO hot you didn't feel it then.  Later, if you were not well hydrated and eating salt tabs, you likely folded and were carried off that floor.  30 minutes in the cold, 30 mins thaw out.  Then on furnace and hot top work, 15 minutes per hour for 3 hours max then HOME with full 8 hr shift pay.  They wanted to work us, just not to death.  :o\

[McGrandpa]

1978 was the coldest year I recall as an adult in Houston.   It really did dip down to single digit temps, but the wind howling down from the Rockies swooping through the plains and right out the Gulf of Mexico with us in the way.  Yep, I saw a LOT of people with busted freeze plugs, radiators popping and water pumps popping right off the engine, busting their little bolt heads off.   The weather forecast did call for HARD freezing, and warned everyone about their pipes, engine anti freeze and getting their animals indoors.   I did all the above, not all the neighbors did.  They paid for it too.  Even with my water pipe wrapped and covered, it still froze.  I was out front with hair blow driers thawing that thing out till the water ran good.   Me (and everyone) rand the kitchen taps about halfway open.  That was our 'dripping' the water that week!  And it didn't freeze again.

[McGrandpa]

I only keep the Blood Pressure readings on a Spread Sheet..... As you said...all of the other stuff they can gather themselves LOL....

One more quick tour and then it's bye bye time folks....

True, BUT. I do like keeping track of some of my medical stuff.  Specially the weight and the device changes.   Devices, now that's a nice word to cover for the uncomfortable stuff to the public.  eh HEM!

[M-Callahan]

If I remember right 1978 was a very cold year for the mid-west where things came at a standstill out there due to the heavy snowfall.  I was in Germany at the time things ice over so bad there that you couldn't stand up straight because you were constantly falling down with 2 or more inches of ice all over the place. 

[thelufias]

When I first moved to Wisconsin in the early 70's our Winters were LONG and Hard and the Summer were mild and short.   Now the Winters are not as long and the Heat starts earlier and earlier each year.

In 1978 my #2 fuel oil froze in the lines and I even had heattape around them.  That was a pain in the butt and had to get the lines thawed by running hot water on the lines until the oil company could come and suck some of the #2 oil from the tank and put in #1 oil which is like a kerosene....

[M-Callahan]

This place is usually hot most of the time.  I bet if there wasn't air conditioning over half of the people here would leave, and it would go back to being a whistle stop town again for railroad maintenance.   

[thelufias]

Our Summer has been all over the place....and then some.  Between this weeks 5 tornados, last weeks temps in the upper 90s and no rain, and today waking up to 51 degrees....it's been a roller coaster ride....but I like change....  Better then getting constant heat....which I do NOT enjoy....