Sissy stuff to keep warm with during the "VORTEX"?

[samantha1]

is it any wonder that usa and canada puts prices up like that if they can get away with it,if they did it in uk their would be a uproar by the regulator ,however their are many medicines that would cure us ,but nice who says what you can or cannot get on the nhs ,stops allot of medicine as the producer of certain drugs are also charging too much for the nhs and can only be prescribed privately which is very exspensive.

[Betty]

They're holding our lives hostage for money to get overwhelmingly filthy rich, with the threat of tremendous pain, suffering, torture, & misery if you can't pay! It's as bad as the dark ages.

C'mon now. How many dentists do you know who don't own a yacht, mansion, or a ritzy summer home, best cars, plus take expensive vacations worthy for a movie star? And most drug company or hospital heads can buy those guys out at least 100 times.

Just a 100 years ago your barber did your teeth, & fillings for about the price of a haircut, & everybody's teeth were fine. They got you liquored up for anesthetic, & everybody went home smiling. Children didn't need dental, because all their baby teeth fall out at least by puberty, & their adult teeth grow in. Poor little kids forced to wear braces most of their childhood while still having their baby teeth. WTF is that all about?

Absolutely perfect teeth look so fake & unnatural, they look like plastic teeth or false teeth. What's the purpose of spending that much money on your teeth if everybody thinks they're false?

[Betty]

The doctors & surgeons in the hospitals in my area have mostly middle-eastern or Islamic names. Most of them probably don't even like Americans, think we're all sinners, & don't care about our well being. They're just there for the work & money. We're probably all just a flat tire or broken engine that needs work to them, & they get paid even if they fail.

[Betty]

Oh god. It's almost time. He's going to surgery in a few minutes. 4-7 hour operation, with only 25% he'll make it through the operation. That doesn't even include his chances of complications or infection after the operation.

[Betty]

The operation went better than expected. He's in the ICU. They just removed his breathing tube, is breathing on his own, & talking!

So at least he beat the 25% odds of even surviving the operation.

Still got a long way to go for recovery. There can be infection or complications along the way.

Thanks for your prayers.

[Betty]

After some mostly unusually warm weather for the past couple weeks, they're saying the dreaded vortex will be returning with temperatures in the teens (F) by Wed. night. By Friday night we're expecting a snowy, windy, arctic, -1F(-18C) with wind chills down to -10(-23C) to -20F(-29C), possibly colder than the north pole!

Amazingly they're expecting it to get back up to 32F by Monday, & an unusual 36F by Wednesday. But you know how those vortexes work... Sometimes they just want to linger a long time rather than move on. Those long range forecasts are almost never very accurate.

[Angela M...]

I do believe in the power of prayer, and I am glad to hear your brother is doing well and we will pray for a speedy recovery.
My dentist drives a nice Mercedes SUV and has a pretty big house in a very nice area of town and oh yes the sailboat too.
It has been snowing lightly here since about 5 PM and the roads are slick. I went out at 8 PM to look after a friends kitty and had to clean off the car and driving was a bit slippery but the salt trucks were out on the main roads. I am staying mostly indoors with the start of a cold but my friends are enjoying the sun, sand and tropical breezes in the Dominican.   

[Betty]

My dentist drives a nice Mercedes SUV and has a pretty big house in a very nice area of town and oh yes the sailboat too.

LOL. At $1,000 or more per visit or per hour he should. If he puts in 40 hour weeks that's $40,000 a week, $160,000 a month, & a little over 2 million dollars a year. Granted, the staff, facility, & technology costs get some of that, but you know the department heads are getting the bulk of it.

We had a light sprinkling of snow overnight. Less than an inch. But look out! The temperature just dropped 5 degrees F in just a little over an hour. By tonight it will be a windy 12F (-11C), then will continue to get colder until it's -3F (-19C) by Sat. night. With high winds & a severe wind chill factor, you'd better be dressed like a professional polar or Siberian explorer just to keep alive more than a few minutes outside.

And those night time lows don't just effect us when most of us are at home or under warm blankets sleeping. The coldest part of most winters is the pre-dawn hours when most are up & going to work or school. Most winter days the temperature doesn't climb until hours after sunrise. So that -3F low is also pretty much the temperature going to school, work, or out anywhere in the morning.

[Betty]

Windy 9F (-13C) & falling though it will get up to 15F (-9C) at some point (probably long after lunchtime). Wind chill -8F (-22C). Light sprinkle of snow expected. 4-6" of snow expected Friday, with wind chills of -15F (-26C) expected by Friday night.

Can't complain too much. For this time of the year, we've had a mild winter so far. This vortex isn't supposed to linger, so it may hit the 30s F by Monday (above normal for here now),  just in time to celebrate George Washington's birthday. Haven't decided what to do to celebrate it. You can do your part to honor him by donating to Betty's. His picture is on every USA dollar.

Bangkok~90F(32C) Winnipeg~1F(-17C) Sydney~75F(24C) London~41F(5C) Anchorage~30F(-1C) NYC~24F(-4C) LA~63F(17C) Québec~9F(-13C) Paris~72F(22C) Berlin~41F(5C) Oslo~34(1C) Stockholm~36F(2C) Amsterdam~43F(6C) New Delhi~79F(26C) Honolulu-69F(21C)

F vs C: Often our USA visitors are so frustrated when I type stuff in English, metric, & European standards, totally forgetting that Betty's, like most websites are international. Although throughout a day we get more visitors from the USA than any other country, during my mornings until my lunchtime, sometimes we have more visitors from Europe that the USA here. We get more visitors from the London area than any other city, but the NYC area is a close second.

[Betty]

Now they're saying it will get down to a windy -10F(-23c), with wind chills down to -25 to -30F (-32C to -34C) Sat. night!

Yep, that's colder than the north pole & Siberia. Hardly anybody lives there because it's too phucking cold in the winter.

Our current coldest visitor is in Ottawa at -4F(-20C). Our hottest is in Alice Springs at 99F. That's right next door to Pine Gap, Australia's own area 51. Don't get too close or they'll shoot you. Hope those pesky aliens like it hot.

Vortex: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/ecwv.html