No one freak out by the brutal cold that will be here in a few days

21 degrees this morning, 17 predicted for tomorrow. I replaced the frost blanket over all the trees until Sunday that night temps are supposed to go above 40 degrees. I have 2 trees that I repotted, O.Sweetgum and a momiji that I got from Brent that are resting inside the garage. A lot of the trees already started pushing leaves, elms, trident seedlings, J.Quinces... they are under the blanket, hopefully they will be fine.
 
Full disclosure... I'll gladly take 6 inches of snow and sub 0 temps over night time tornado warnings coupled with torrential rains. My old neighborhood in GA was dealing with that just the other night.
I came here to north GA from SoCal as a late teenager. Working at Subway my first summer to a new place and a tornado hit very close by. People jumping out of their cars not even turning them off to get in the store.
 
I have a feeling it is going to be colder than what they forecasted. i.e. They said today's high will be in the 40s but it never really gets anywhere higher than 34. My bird baths are frozen at the surface. The low they forecasted now is low 20s.... the kids will have to tough it out now.
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This is how far the Trident Maple and Chinese Quince progress
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I hope this is the last cold weather for us here in Texas.
It's tough having sympathy for your cold spell. It's 13 degrees here currently. I noticed when I came home the cat's automatic waterer in the garage was frozen. :( Fingers crossed for the trees in there....
 
Florida people can't handle cold. You should have heard the whining during those horrible 3 weeks. I spent so much time on TV and trying to warm my butt by crouching over the space heater 😄
 
I haven't read the whole discussion, but here is some information from my backyard. Overnight low was 12F. My trees are on the ground with mulch around the pots and a tent of light canvas over the top. A soil probe in a pot read 32F this morning. I did bring the olive into the garage, but all other temperate zone species are outside as described.
 
I've lived in Michigan all my life and been all over the world. I've learned to put up with the snow instead of the bugs and critters I've seen elsewhere!
You can keep your swarm clouds of biting black flies up there 😅
I just want to know where our mail carriers go on snow days where I live.
Sure aint where they belong I can tell you that. And those scanners send a signal
to the district office if they're stopped for 10 minutes so they red flag their location
and mgt is supposed to inquire. If you as much as back up, the scanner detects it
and flags you if it's not a predetermined turn around point.
 
You can keep your swarm clouds of biting black flies up there 😅
I just want to know where our mail carriers go on snow days where I live.
Sure aint where they belong I can tell you that. And those scanners send a signal
to the district office if they're stopped for 10 minutes so they red flag their location
and mgt is supposed to inquire. If you as much as back up, the scanner detects it
and flags you if it's not a predetermined turn around point.
Black flies are up north...🤣🤣🤣
 
Another single digit wind chill dip. Hopefully the mosquito population gets decimated.

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