Wintry weather around US brings fatalities, school closings
Source: AP-Excite
By DAVE COLLINS
Dangerously cold air has sent temperatures plummeting into the single digits around the U.S., with wind chills driving them even lower.
Throw in the snow some areas are getting and you've got a bone chilling mix that may also be super messy.
The result?
School delays and cancellations, a fatal car pileup and worries about the homeless.
Here's a look at what's happening:
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FULL story at link.
In dangerously cold weather, Angelique Morillo of Kansas City, Kan., was bundled up while she waited Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, for a bus at 7th Street and Central Ave., in Kansas City, Kan. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Tammy Ljungblad)
Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150108/us--winter_weather-6786bd522d.html
Omaha area schools were closed yesterday, but are open today.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)Our hospital is available as a 24-hour warming center, the DHS office is open 8-5 and all city and village halls are open during normal business hours.
madokie
(51,076 posts)cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
Subject: brass monkey
In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters
carried iron cannons. Those cannon fired round iron cannon balls. It was
necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon. But how to prevent them
from rolling about the deck?
The best storage method devised was a square based pyramid with one
ball on top, resting on four resting on nine which rested on sixteen.
Thus, a supply of thirty cannon balls could be stacked in a small area
right next to the cannon.
There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from
sliding/rolling from under the others. The solution was a metal plate
called a "Monkey" with sixteen round indentations. But, if this plate
was made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution
to the rusting problem was to make "Brass Monkeys."
Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much
faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped
too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon
balls would come right off the monkey. Thus, it was quite literally,
"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!"
Never know when knowledge like this will come in handy.
madokie
(51,076 posts)so there is that
SansACause
(520 posts)FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)It's brutal.