Althouse: Up before 6.

January 6, 2015

Up before 6.

Morning in Madison, with new snow, and a temperature of -1°.

ADDED: Pre-dawn blogging:

30 comments:

james conrad said...: Yikes, no thanks, I'll stay here in carolina, mid 60s yesterday!; 1/6/15, 6:04 AM
Anonymous said...: I once described moderate winter weather as the temperatures between zero and 30 degrees, and cold weather as below zero. The gulf coast natives who heard that had no concept of what I meant.

My mother worked at a university library with lots of foreign students. One from a very warm part of Africa tried to describe winter to his friends and family back home. They could not really grasp the concept and were concerned that he be careful because they knew the words "freeze" and "to death" are used together sometimes.

I guess you have to be there.; 1/6/15, 6:13 AM
Rich B said...: Looks like Meade will get to be the best again.; 1/6/15, 6:29 AM
Michael K said...: 79 again in Orange County. I'll visit Chicago in a few months. I passed this course years ago.; 1/6/15, 6:44 AM
ron winkleheimer said...: I appear to have the flu, and thus was up well before six.

I grew up in what I now (that I live in the south) call the great frozen north. I do not miss it.

Unfortunately, we do, on occasion, see snow. When that happens it is best to stay off the roads as much as possible because the people here cannot drive in it, no matter how light it is.

And my verfication word was slete.; 1/6/15, 6:47 AM
Jaq said...: I am in Florida right now, for my first winter down here. I do miss the snow and cold.

I would disagree with Grundon, 0-30 is fine, when the wind is not blowing. zero can get pretty miserable in even a light wind.; 1/6/15, 6:58 AM
Sharc said...: Beautiful car. No garage?; 1/6/15, 7:02 AM
Clyde said...: @ Tim in Vermont

This is my 27th winter in Florida. I haven't seen snow in person since January '89, and I don't miss it at all. God knows I saw enough of it up until I came here. I've been here almost long enough to be a born-again Cracker.; 1/6/15, 7:10 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm concerned there is no garage for the roadster also. Grandaddy had one in Tn, a place with minimal snow. The heavy 2 x 8 planked walls helped him funnel the Chrysler V-8 into the bay with minimal damage, as he drove well into his nineties.; 1/6/15, 7:23 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Beautiful car. No garage?"

There's a garage, but I've never once (in 30 years) driven my car into it.

It's like having a desk with drawers but putting all your papers in stacks on top of the desk... but it doesn't snow on the desk.; 1/6/15, 7:23 AM
Ann Althouse said...: It's rare for a car to drive down our street, so it was weird that at the very point when I decided to take a picture a car drove into the frame.; 1/6/15, 7:24 AM
Fprawl said...: I'm concerned there is no garage for the roadster also. Grandaddy had one in Tn, a place with minimal snow. The heavy 2 x 8 planked walls helped him funnel the Chrysler V-8 into the bay with minimal damage, as he drove well into his nineties.; 1/6/15, 7:25 AM
Curious George said...: I would hink it's easier to clean out the garage once and avoid scraping ice off the windows over and over and over.; 1/6/15, 7:53 AM
Will Cate said...: Yeah, it was warm in NC yesterday, but upper twenties this morning. Or as a Wisconsinite might call it, "perfectly OK."; 1/6/15, 7:58 AM
Fritz said...: Dang it, now it's snowing here in Maryland.; 1/6/15, 8:19 AM
Hagar said...: Garages are for storing cars in.
Attics and basements for memorabilia.; 1/6/15, 8:31 AM
kjbe said...: Enjoy today, tomorrow's gonna be worse.; 1/6/15, 8:34 AM
Laslo Spatula said...: mrs.e said...
Enjoy today, tomorrow's gonna be worse.

I live by that.

I am Laslo.; 1/6/15, 8:38 AM
Big Mike said...: I went to bed assuming that we'd have just a little bit of snow in the Washington area this morning. I woke up to 4" already on the ground and the white stuff coming down at a reported rate of another inch every half hour.

So much for the validity of meteorological modeling.

And, of course, the federal government is more or less shut down at this point, much to the bemusement of the rest of the country.; 1/6/15, 8:39 AM
Hagar said...: Though Steve Scalise is very much a politician and a "public person," in this case, can he prevail in a defamation suit based on malice and knowingly publishing false information about him?

I hope he does take them all to the cleaners.; 1/6/15, 8:44 AM
Jake said...: I want to see today's after-shoveling pictures. Just curious what the best looks like.; 1/6/15, 8:45 AM
Stephen Taylor said...: At 5 AM this morning in Austin it was clear and 31. No snow.; 1/6/15, 10:19 AM
Julie C said...: It's in the mid-40s here in sunny Northern California. Projected to get to about 63. We are having a cold snap, by the way. Everyone is walking around in jackets complaining about how cold they are! And there's yet another Spare the Air day so no fire tonight. Damn bureaucrats.

I grew up on the east coast but left when I was a teenager, so in my mind snow is romantic and signifies indoor warmth and coziness. For my parents it signified snow tires, shoveling, and icy sidewalks. They didn't miss it at all once we moved.; 1/6/15, 11:22 AM
hawkeyedjb said...: "Or as a Wisconsinite might call it, 'perfectly OK.'"

We had a cold snap here in Phoenix last week. Or as a Wisconsonite might call it, "A heat wave."; 1/6/15, 11:55 AM
Ann Althouse said...: The car's not being in the garage is unrelated to any garage clutter issues.

It's mainly the location of the garage.; 1/6/15, 12:31 PM
Known Unknown said...: You must hate your car.; 1/6/15, 12:55 PM
Rusty said...: Hagar said...
Garages are for storing cars in.

Garages are for storing tools and working on projects. In order for a car to fit I'd have to seel some tools.
Get your peiorities straight. Cars are waterproof and freeze proof.; 1/6/15, 1:36 PM
Hagar said...: Get your "peiorities" straight.

Garages are for cars and car tools.

You want a shop and/or toolshed, build one.; 1/6/15, 2:45 PM
JZ said...: Move the garage. And get a garage door opener. You'll feel like you've arrived.; 1/6/15, 5:31 PM
Marc in Eugene said...: 50s, sun, Spring-like. Lots of men in shorts today in Eugene.; 1/6/15, 5:36 PM