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 I've been wondering why I've been feeling such weather ire so early in the season.  Here I am in shorts and covered in Off again... so I don't have to slap at 'em all day like yesterday...but I'm used to warm spells in winter, so something else had to be going on.  I've seen some sleet and snow this winter, though just a spattering...it was much better than last year, and I'm used to that.  Getting sleet is much harder than getting snow, and though snow is no substitute for sleet, unless it finds a way to be here tomorrow night too, which it rarely does, still...I'm used to that too, lord knows.  No, it was something else...something to do with cold.  But, it's been cold, I saw a 17 last year, and I've seen some mid 20's this year.  No, something cold is missing.  Then it dawned on me.  I haven't been tempted to put plastic over the windows in years.  It doesn't get "cold" anymore, ever.  So I looked it up.  It has been 3 years, 3 weeks,  or so, since I've had a high below freezing,  Jan 8th, 2010.  No wonder I'm getting mean as a snake, and ornery.  I'm amazed I haven't exploded. I've been suffering through 3 years of summer!! Man can't live like that....live without true cold.  It just ain't natural.  T

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Yeah, I can see where bitter cold kills the elderly, and  the poor in general, but snow itself? I would think it would be the winds in a snow storm, or the frontal passage after, that would do the most actual damage, beyond the random roof collapse, so the thunder storm vs snow storm/blizzard would equal out. Just guessing.  Be interesting to see the stats.  T

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Yeah, I can see where bitter cold kills the elderly, and  the poor in general, but snow itself? I would think it would be the winds in a snow storm, or the frontal passage after, that would do the most actual damage, beyond the random roof collapse, so the thunder storm vs snow storm/blizzard would equal out. Just guessing.  Be interesting to see the stats.  T

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Ah.  Sorry, I didn't realize you were a member of congress.

Speaking of which...that chart of yours was weirder that some I've seen on the floor of the ClownZoo.   If the tornado kills you, but it isn't the wind effect, because wind has it's own slot, and a tornado is wind in rotation, what is killing you? Can you have a windless tornado?  And if so, is it like a killer kitten?

    And winter?  If it isn't the cold, which has it's own slot, and it isn't the wind, which has it's own slot...how is winter killing you?  Errant snow balls?  Alien sleets with vicious razor tusks, and mind boring sleet weevils? Winter without wind, and cold and sn/ip.zr is just summer with/without rain.  But they don't list summer as a big killer.  I've been nearly killed by summer many times....if we are including the crazy things heat makes you do..like doing a can opener  into a foot of water, or paddling the canoe directly into a maelstrom, or cutting down the tree such that the cable you are pulling it with turns into the screaming scythe of death.

  Sorry, Mr. Burns, but that chart needs some help at the overdose tent.  T

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