So, it's cold outside. Suddenly cold. And it's supposed to get colder. MUCH colder. They say we're going to experience what is called a Polar Vortex. This would be an excellent rock band name. Beyond that, I'm not sure exactly what a Polar Vortex is. I could look it up now, but I think the main gist of things is that it is about to get amazingly cold here. This would be Madison's first Polar Vortex experience. It could be mine, for that matter.
Daddy remembers being down here in Georgia some time ago when the temperatures dropped to the single digits. This may have been in the eighties, when things got crazy cold for a short time. It didn't really snow then - it was just plain cold and windy. The windchill made it feel below zero, which for we southerners was quite a shock. It was as if the Heat Miser went on vacation and let Southtown freeze for a while.
As for "snow," the rumor is that we'll see a little bit on Sunday night. Not sure how much, or how much ice either. But this could affect Madison's first day back from Winter Break. That break might be extended another day - we'll see how that goes. It could just mean we go in a bit later in the morning. Daddy did have a doctor's appointment on Monday, but that could be cancelled as well. As you know, the slightest bit of winter weather down here and everything tends to shut down.
Today Madison was at the office with Daddy and Mommy. We were preparing for our newest series, "Excalibur." Which is an old series that we're repeating again. Daddy isn't as enthused about this one as he was when we did it a few years ago - repeats are generally that way. But we are doing something new on Wednesday nights, starting in February: a walk through the Bible. Daddy has been planning on this here and there, but we really have to get kicking on it now.
Madison was very helpful in the office today, counting printed sheets of paper for other employees, and organizing things a bit. When she wasn't doing that, she was watching "Barbie" movies or playing around with some of the guys here. She always has a good time. Meanwhile, Mommy is setting up her traditional display case for the new series. This one is based on "Excalibur," of course, and is looking good so far:
This Polar Vortex that's coming - it will affect football in an interesting way. "Interesting" is the best word I could come up with, because I'm amazed that people will play in a game where it is supposed to be around zero degrees, and possibly feel like -30. Seriously, that's what they are saying it will be. And imagine being a fan going to sit down and watch this game. Why would anyone pay the astoundingly large amount of money it costs to go to a football game, simply to endure that sort of temperature. Talk about real fans!
We did a football series some time ago, and Daddy wrote a piece about the coldest NFL game every played, called "The Freezer Bowl." It's play-off season, and as the Polar Vortex comes calling, this was fun to look up again:
Daddy remembers being down here in Georgia some time ago when the temperatures dropped to the single digits. This may have been in the eighties, when things got crazy cold for a short time. It didn't really snow then - it was just plain cold and windy. The windchill made it feel below zero, which for we southerners was quite a shock. It was as if the Heat Miser went on vacation and let Southtown freeze for a while.
As for "snow," the rumor is that we'll see a little bit on Sunday night. Not sure how much, or how much ice either. But this could affect Madison's first day back from Winter Break. That break might be extended another day - we'll see how that goes. It could just mean we go in a bit later in the morning. Daddy did have a doctor's appointment on Monday, but that could be cancelled as well. As you know, the slightest bit of winter weather down here and everything tends to shut down.
Today Madison was at the office with Daddy and Mommy. We were preparing for our newest series, "Excalibur." Which is an old series that we're repeating again. Daddy isn't as enthused about this one as he was when we did it a few years ago - repeats are generally that way. But we are doing something new on Wednesday nights, starting in February: a walk through the Bible. Daddy has been planning on this here and there, but we really have to get kicking on it now.
Madison was very helpful in the office today, counting printed sheets of paper for other employees, and organizing things a bit. When she wasn't doing that, she was watching "Barbie" movies or playing around with some of the guys here. She always has a good time. Meanwhile, Mommy is setting up her traditional display case for the new series. This one is based on "Excalibur," of course, and is looking good so far:
This Polar Vortex that's coming - it will affect football in an interesting way. "Interesting" is the best word I could come up with, because I'm amazed that people will play in a game where it is supposed to be around zero degrees, and possibly feel like -30. Seriously, that's what they are saying it will be. And imagine being a fan going to sit down and watch this game. Why would anyone pay the astoundingly large amount of money it costs to go to a football game, simply to endure that sort of temperature. Talk about real fans!
We did a football series some time ago, and Daddy wrote a piece about the coldest NFL game every played, called "The Freezer Bowl." It's play-off season, and as the Polar Vortex comes calling, this was fun to look up again:
It was January 10, 1982 and the AFC Championship
Game was looking like it would be a good one. Hopefully,
both teams had done plenty of warm-ups because this
would be a game that would go down in history as the
coldest NFL game ever played. Though technically the
classic Ice Bowl Game in 1967 had a colder recorded
temperature, the wind chill made this one feel even worse!
Get this: the Freezer Bowl featured razor sharp 35-mile-
per-hour winds that made it feel like fifty degrees below
zero!
The Cincinnati Bengals and the San Diego Chargers battled it out though. The irony about the Chargers team was that they had just won a game in Miami the week before, where players were suffering from heat and exhaustion.
Chargers running back Hank Bauer said of the conditions in the Freezer Bowl, "when I came out of that tunnel... man, it (the wind) just hit you-like somebody threw 100 knives at you." He returned to the locker room and saw his fellow players putting on layers to help stay warm. He told them “Whatever you got on, take it off. Number one-you won’t be able to move (with all the layers) and number two-it ain't gonna help."
Maybe this is why the Bengals played with bare arms through the contest. Either that, or they were all completely crazy! Seriously, it was so cold that Chargers’ quarterback Dan Fouts had icicles growing on his beard!
Sometimes in life things come at us like 100 knives being thrown our way. We all face times where it seems like God is giving us the cold shoulder, and it seems like we’re stuck, frozen in place. Even though it may seem like your relationship with God is a bit icy, it is not because He’s far away trying to keep warm. He never leaves us or forsakes us, and when things appear to be cooling off, it’s only because He’s testing us out to see if we have the makings of a champion. So roll up those sleeves and bear those arms and push forward anyway. You can win this Freezer Bowl, if you just keep playing hard. There’s a trophy at the end, and that victory is going to seem really ice. Er, I mean nice.
The Cincinnati Bengals and the San Diego Chargers battled it out though. The irony about the Chargers team was that they had just won a game in Miami the week before, where players were suffering from heat and exhaustion.
Chargers running back Hank Bauer said of the conditions in the Freezer Bowl, "when I came out of that tunnel... man, it (the wind) just hit you-like somebody threw 100 knives at you." He returned to the locker room and saw his fellow players putting on layers to help stay warm. He told them “Whatever you got on, take it off. Number one-you won’t be able to move (with all the layers) and number two-it ain't gonna help."
Maybe this is why the Bengals played with bare arms through the contest. Either that, or they were all completely crazy! Seriously, it was so cold that Chargers’ quarterback Dan Fouts had icicles growing on his beard!
Sometimes in life things come at us like 100 knives being thrown our way. We all face times where it seems like God is giving us the cold shoulder, and it seems like we’re stuck, frozen in place. Even though it may seem like your relationship with God is a bit icy, it is not because He’s far away trying to keep warm. He never leaves us or forsakes us, and when things appear to be cooling off, it’s only because He’s testing us out to see if we have the makings of a champion. So roll up those sleeves and bear those arms and push forward anyway. You can win this Freezer Bowl, if you just keep playing hard. There’s a trophy at the end, and that victory is going to seem really ice. Er, I mean nice.
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