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[Kelda]

enjo enjoy David! say hello to the sun from me - I haven't seen it in a few months!

[MaineWriter]

Monday morning, Martin Luther King Day. I hadn't planned on taking this as a vacation day, but they are predicting ice and snow, up to 7 inches. It just started snowing now. Since my daughter is home from school anyway, I might as well stay home, too. Ha ha, didn't need to twist my arm to hard on that one!

24 degrees right now. I'll keep ya'll posted on the weather.

And, how about those Patriots?! Yahoo, what a game...I think the Chargers were the team they had to beat and I am predicting they go all the way to the Super Bowl. Yee-haw!

L

[MaineWriter]

Well, we had what the weathermen like to euphemistically call a "wintry mix" for most of the day, but actual accumulation was pretty minor. I did stay home and didn't venture out on the roads, since there wasn't anything I needed, anyway. My husband went to work but came home early...the driving was slow, but not awful.

Looks like lots of hoopla and worrying over nothing, but since we haven't had much winter to speak of, the weather people are restless. LOL

L

[Brown Eyes]

According to our little reports at the bottom of the BetterMost screen, it's 21 degrees in Childress, TX right now!  That just seems wrong to me.  And, it was almost 60 degrees in Pittsburgh today!  Not only was it warm... it was humid!
 

All wrong.
 

[MaineWriter]

Filling in for David while he is in sunny warm Florida!

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[MaineWriter]

Tuesday here, 20.8 degrees. We are supposed to have a cold blast the next few days.

L

[Front-Ranger]

Be careful everybody in this icy weather. Here's a true story. A man from our Houston office started on a road trip with his family to visit relatives on the West Coast over the holidays. They got lost in an ice storm in Oregon. He ran the car until there was no more gas to keep his wife and two little girls, ages four years and four months, warm. Then he burned the tires. Several days passed while they were still stranded and lost. The mother nursed the baby, and then she also nursed the four-year-old. Finally, the man took off walking to find help. He did reach help, but then was taken to a hospital and died of hypothermia. The wife and children were rescued.

[MaineWriter]

Lee,

Are you referring to the tragedy with James Kim and his family that occurred over Thanksgiving?

Just a few details: he was from San Francisco, not Houston. The children were 7 months and 4 years, and yes, mom breastfed both of them. Although the weather was snow and rain, it sounds more like they were stuck in snow, on a mountain road, that is normally closed in winter. Vandals had destroyed the gate that closed the road, and Kim made a wrong turn.

for more:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/07/missing.family/index.html

This story says he walked 10.64 miles but later reports estimated that he really walked 16.

For work, he was a senior editor at CNET Networks.

Leslie

[Front-Ranger]

Yes, the man was originally from San Francisco and may have worked for CNET previously, but at the time of his death, he worked for my company in our Houston office. I was told that the younger child was four months old but it may have been wrong information.

[Jeff Wrangler]

That was terribly sad. I seem to remember he had walked essentially in a circle, and his body was found not too far from where the car was stuck.