Lots of good home cookin 😀

The death of most of your plants? And lots of winterkill on those that survive!

Doesn't the McCurtain area also have alligators? I wonder how they're taking these cold temps 😆

Cameron,
check out the map on my "Oklahoma colder than the south pole this morning" thread. It did not get nearly as cold down there.
I plan to go down there next week, but don't know if I'll get to do vet. checks on the 'gators. 😆
--Erik

They are probably asleep, or dead ( unfortunatly).

As far as i remember from the pet store, most reptiles can " hybernate" to some degree. But once a threshold temp is reached, they sleep to death ( so to speak).

They have experienced low temps before ( whos to say its "never" gotten that cold there?? It has now right?) and animals arent stupid. Although, im sure lots of things may not have made it unfortunatly :S

I used to keep reptiles, and knew a couple of people who kept gators. I have a feeling that they would still be "hibernating", I forget the word for it now.

ah so thats how you spell "hibernating" LOL

All I remember is that they fall asleep, and can actualy take quite low temps ( theyve been around for millions of years and have seen massive temprature swings). Some can take more then others. You cant expect a Columbian Red Tail Boa to take -20C.

I WILL say. A customer came in, and told me her California Kingsnake got out and outside in ( in Calgary Alberta), where the ground thaws and freezed constantly. She found him warming up in the springtime, beside the foundation 😯

Bryan, whom I bought the big Sabal "Lou" from, keeps 'gators.
http://www.alligatoralley.com/
When this gets past us, I'll ask how they (and his palms) fared.
Mind you, OKC was a mild -5 oF today.
Ah, must be nice to live at 35.5 oN vs. my frigid 35.9 oN. It's all about the latitude....

its almost over dude.....

I was looking up my climate today, and I came accross this Eric. It talks about the scale of the situation there

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20110209_11_0_Lseksb67944

Jesse,
and this article from the same source (Tulsa's major newspaper) goes over the temps:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=490&articleid=20110210_11_0_Nearin713416

It does qualify the "oklahoma colder than the south pole" claim by pointing out that the south pole is experiencing a heat wave right now. (Note: please lets not start talking GW now My senator, Inhofe, who lives near me, will start that soon enough, thank you.) This same article points out that a spot in Russia got to -70 oF today, which made me feel a whole lot better. Love to see photos of their palms!
--Erik

Jesse,
and this article from the same source (Tulsa's major newspaper) goes over the temps:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=490&articleid=20110210_11_0_Nearin713416

It does qualify the "oklahoma colder than the south pole" claim by pointing out that the south pole is experiencing a heat wave right now. (Note: please lets not start talking GW now My senator, Inhofe, who lives near me, will start that soon enough, thank you.) This same article points out that a spot in Russia got to -70 oF today, which made me feel a whole lot better. Love to see photos of their palms!
--Erik

Inhofe is a real hoot, ain't he!

Mike,
let me guess-you are huge fan of my local senator. 😆
He keeps his plane nearby, and to write-off travel to it he drops by the high school my son used to attend (across the street from the GA airport). (Photo below. Don't worry--my son has grown a lot in the last three years.)
Sen. Inhofe was strangely silent about the heat wave we had last August, but somehow I expect to hear from him about the weather now. --Erik

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Mike,
let me guess-you are huge fan of my local senator. 😆
He keeps his plane nearby, and to write-off travel to it he drops by the high school my son used to attend (across the street from the GA airport). (Photo below. Don't worry--my son has grown a lot in the last three years.)
Sen. Inhofe was strangely silent about the heat wave we had last August, but somehow I expect to hear from him about the weather now. --Erik

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As we say in Jersey...."At's a friggin' classic ❗ "

-4F (-20C) was the low so far.

The northern great lakes ice extent is below normal while the southern portions are above normal.....interesting.

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Hmm, thats kinda wierd, up here weve had, an shorter winter yes, but still had some cold.