>>>>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6921281/Britain-facing-one-of-the-coldest-winters-in-100-years-experts-predict.html
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>>>>Then there is a little cool snap in Carolina too. http://www2.wnct.com/nct/news/local/article/once_in_a_generation_cold_snap_forecast_for_nc/91554/
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>>>>And people are dying in Chicago - http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Chicago.man.s.2.1400772.html
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>>>>Help, help, help the sky is freezing!
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>>>Someone forgot to tell global warming that most homes in North Carolina have heat pumps and heat pumps don't work well below 37 degrees F. That is the balancing point for most. They also have to de-ice. They are designed for temperatures around 50 degrees F and will work down into the teens, but at a point, there is no longer enough heat to extract from the cold air for anything above 60 degrees indoors. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
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>>After living out here in the middle of nowhere for 15 years we finally broke down and bought a snowblower today. We've had about 30 inches of snow so far this winter which is 3x more than we got in any of the first 10 winters here. Last few years it just gets colder and snowier. Yep - global warming is about as real the Democrats can imagine..
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>A Snowblower? We use natures snowblower here. It snows. We wait a while and howling wind moves the snow south and out of town.

The howling wind around here has a habit of moving in circles!

Last few snowstorms there were a lot of roads closed repeatedly by drifts - our gravel road was closed for 2 days beacuse of 10foot drifts they had to get front end loaders in to clear.

Of course, now that we spent a pile on a snowblower, global warming may really happen just so we can't use it.