Guitarcrazy
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Yes, 85 degrees in Cozumel, getting off the plane to 24 below was quite a dramatic change. At times I wonder why we live here. And then summer comes along and we are reminded.
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And increasing your snow expectations...!Wunderground keeps revising downward the predicted low temperature for Monday night here in Austin. It is down to 3 degrees F as of now (Friday afternoon).
2/12/1899: Arctic cold stiffens Tulia
On this day in 1899, Tulia, Texas, reported the coldest temperature ever recorded in the state--minus 23 degrees Fahrenheit. This was part of the "Big Freeze," an infamous norther that killed 40,000 cattle across the state overnight. This temperature was matched in Seminole in 1933. The highest temperature recorded for Texas was 120.
I guess some was scavenged locally as there were no rules then and people did what they had to do to survive. Prices at railheads and back east must have gone up significantly. I'm sure that the local buzzards and other scavengers had a good spring.Price of beef must have crashed next day...
Beef producers rely on cattle to aid in their own demise by moving themselves around. Harvesting 40,000 dead animals out in fields somewhere in a timely manner would be extremely difficult to impossible even today. I suspect that, as Don suggested, the opposite happened.Price of beef must have crashed next day...
Beef producers rely on cattle to aid in their own demise by moving themselves around. Harvesting 40,000 dead animals out in fields somewhere in a timely manner would be extremely difficult to impossible even today. I suspect that, as Don suggested, the opposite happened.
Of course.I was just kidding...