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Today, the high in Knoxville was 75 degrees. That shattered the previous record high by a whopping six degrees.

This weekend, it will not break into the 40s and lows may very well be down in the teens.

I like warm weather. I like cold weather during November and December because the season doesn't feel right without it. I don't like the two being mixed together so haphazardly. WTF, Mother Nature?

it's made up it's mind in omaha..



it's cold.

So far in Central Missouri we have had some ice, but not the horrible, damaging kind we had 5 years ago. Or Springfield had last year. They don't get out in the rural areas until they restore all the power to the bigger towns. I think it was 10 days without power and I had to show them the tree on a power line that kept us blacked out the last 3 days of our outage. They had restored power within one hour after I pointed out the problem. Lost everything from the freezer and fridge. House smelled like kerosene heater, but no other damage.

How cold was it? Couldn't you have put your food outside in a cooler, or do we just do that in the great white north?

JohnDoolittle wrote:So far in Central Missouri we have had some ice, but not the horrible, damaging kind we had 5 years ago. Or Springfield had last year. They don't get out in the rural areas until they restore all the power to the bigger towns. I think it was 10 days without power and I had to show them the tree on a power line that kept us blacked out the last 3 days of our outage. They had restored power within one hour after I pointed out the problem. Lost everything from the freezer and fridge. House smelled like kerosene heater, but no other damage.

Man, I can't even imagine going through that. I've been through whole nights and days without power, but never during the winter and never for ten days at a time. Sheesh. Lots of relatives had stories to tell when we met up over the summer - most of them live in Missouri.