I had a job working outdoors in Overland Park 1980-1981. We had 8 straight days of 100+ degrees in 1980, a day that only hit 99, and then 3 more days of 100+. A few months later we had a cold snap with a couple of days -10 to -20. Crazy stuff.
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The scary thing to me is hearing how Natural Gas prices are going through the roof and we are going to be seeing bills that are 10-100x higher than normal.

I thought the USA had an excess of Natural Gas. What happened?
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Jan 20th
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100x higher than normal would be rough. I can't afford to pay $30,000 a month for heating.
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Yeah, I'm hoping the news was wrong, as usual.

Or I was... maybe 10 to 100% higher... I think the local news went off the rails.
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That's the spot market. Most large NG suppliers already have prices that were negotiated months ago.
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Futures have been incredibly low for a decade. They were bound to come off the bottom.
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Those first two are generous. :-)

People living in Phoenix complain they're freezing because their house dipped below 70. I've witnessed Southern Californians wearing heavy jackets and scarves when it's 55.
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My stories:

I was in New York for Spring Break. It is 55 or so, sun shining. I am walking around without a coat. The looks I got was priceless.


In Florida at Christmas. 2005. woman sits beside me on a bus. She has a fur coat on. I have on a golf shirt an shorts. She asks me-How can you dress like that? I tell her I am from Minnesota. It is -2 at home, I am in Florida. I am going to wear shorts.

She is from South Carolina. Cannot believe it is only 60F in Florida. They came there to warm up.

Deep cold that year too.
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Yeah, but let the rain hard with a little wind and the whole nation will be asked to send-in support for them.
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True. I dont think Iowa/Minn got much help during the blizzard a few years ago.
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:-) a cat 5 hurricane is more than "a little wind". Your house will still be standing after a little cold spell, same can't be said after a Hurricane.
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I would much rather have a deep freeze than a hurricane. Trees down everywhere and on houses and downed power lines and no power for weeks, not hours or a day or two. During Sandy you had to wait two hours in line to fill a 5gl gas can for your generator. The gas stations either ran out of gas or had no generator. Yeah, that shit don’t happen in a cold spell. A Blizzard isn’t as bad as a hurricane
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One of my buddies posted a snarky "love watching the snow from California" meme on Facebook. He lives in Paradise. The same Paradise that was destroyed by a wildfire a year after they thought it was going to get wiped out by a flash flood from an unstable earthen dam.

Needless to say the irony was not lost on me.
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:-)
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