20 Below Zero

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munk

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That's really about all I have to say. 20 below.

Yesterday when it was 5 below a small white car pulled into town on 3 tires at about 7:40 AM. There was a drag mark through the snow. A fender was left in the road. The trunk was pushed up, the back end smashed, and the front end smashed. The track led to the Bar. The car was parked in front.

They must have gone off the road and figued it wasn't worth changing a tire at 5 below.

The car was gone when I next looked at 3 PM.

And it's cold this morning.


munk
 
Yesterday I drove home with my windows down and opened up the house for a while too. Aah good fresh air in the house. It was 51 degrees at 6:00 this morning and they expect it to get into the seventies today. The trees are budding too. Soon we'll have dogwoods blooming and pretty women in tank tops.:D

I can't say I feel your pain. I've never experienced anything (-). I have sympathy though. I wouldn't have fixed a flat either.
 
Move to Canada, I live in the warmest city in the country it was -14 yesterday. Coldests I've ever been out in was 40 below (not where I live now), it hit -60 that winter after I left. If you visit tuktyuktuk do it in the summer.
 
I lived in Anchorage, Alaska for three years, and Rochester, NY for a year.
Three years in Wiesbaden, Germany, and 2 years in Colorado Springs.
Enough is enough.

This Florida born boy just doesnt adapt well to the cold.


DaddyDett
 
around 68 and windy with some clouds yesterday. Today it's supposed to be about 38 for a high. Cold front hit that warm front last night and made the lights flicker a bit. Now the wife wants to drag me halfway to Louisville to go to a Chocolate Lover's Weekend at some winery on saturday. It's going to be 35 for a high and probably windy. Plus she's bringing 3 of her girlfriends along. I'm starting to understand why they call it a "y" chromosome. "Y oh Y do i allow myself to get into these situations."
The bad news is the girl we are taking in our car talks loud. Plus she is a school psych like my wife so they talk shop for FREAKING HOURS on end. We'll be in a Civic, for an hour, talking about tests and standard deviations and behaviors. All of which I know just enough about to be bored to tears by it. Then we'll get out, eat some so-so chocolate and taste some way overly sweet wine (which i happened to get sick off of on New Years Eve:barf: ), AND it's going to be cold and windy.
Munk, you wanna trade places for the day? I hate the cold, but this weekend is WAY down my list of "Things Jake would rather be doing". Somewhere between math homework and having my nipple hair pulled out with pliers.

Jake
 
We're just coming out of an unusual warm spell, so it's only -17C today. :D

I've been out in -50C weather several times before. It's cold, but it's not so bad that you can't deal with it.
 
DaddyDett said:
Sounds like time to re-inventory the business, Jake.

DaddyDett
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Man, I wish I could, but it's her birthday. I love my wife very, very much. I would love to go do anything she wanted to do on her birthday. However, I don't see how dragging me around all day with a gaggle of cackling hens makes her "special day" all that special. Oh well, now i just have to come up with something unpleasant for her for us to do on my B-day. Isn't this what marriage is all about...revenge:D?

Jake
 
Kazeryu said:
We're just coming out of an unusual warm spell, so it's only -17C today. :D

I've been out in -50C weather several times before. It's cold, but it's not so bad that you can't deal with it.
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-33F this morning. Cold enough that the metal parts in my truck's starter did not want to touch each other :eek:

"They" say that there's no such thing as too cold, just inproper clothing. It's sort of true - ya just dress for it. OTOH, when the wind picks up, it ain't so much fun, no matter what you are wearing. And it gets windy here a lot. The coldest I've experienced was about -45F with wind chills (under the old system) of -90 :eek: :eek: No exposed skin or else! And no exposed tangs on knife handles, either, please.
 
I've stepped outside when it's been -40.

I don't know there is any clothing protection available when it's blowing hard in a blizzard. Why do people die on
Everest? They're on their way down and a storm hits. When storms hit in the far North people hunker down or die. There must be some limit to clothing.

It's funny how things break in the cold. Not funny if you're on the road.

I guess I should add it was in the upper 50's and 60's last week.

munk
 
The issue with being out in the wild in that kind of weather is that if you start to sweat, you're dead. Walking around the city, you can duck inside a coffee shop for a bit and air out if you need to. You don't want to heat yourself up too much trying to fight through a storm.

I think it's also a question of getting lost.
 
Kazeryu said:
The issue with being out in the wild in that kind of weather is that if you start to sweat, you're dead. Walking around the city, you can duck inside a coffee shop for a bit and air out if you need to. You don't want to heat yourself up too much trying to fight through a storm.
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This is the part I have never been good at.
I am either freezing or sweating, never finding the balance of clothing and activity. As you say, this can lead to serious problems in the wilds with minimal/inadequate shelter.

DaddyDett
 
hrm, speaking of storms, we've now got 65km/h gusting wind and it feels like -26C outside. That's a bit more like the winter I expect. :)
 
Not cold here but blowing with gusts up to 60ish mph! I awfully glad it's NOT
-20F and blowing like it is!

Stay warm Munk!
 
Steely_Gunz said:
around 68 and windy with some clouds yesterday. Today it's supposed to be about 38 for a high. Cold front hit that warm front last night and made the lights flicker a bit. Now the wife wants to drag me halfway to Louisville to go to a Chocolate Lover's Weekend at some winery on saturday. It's going to be 35 for a high and probably windy. Plus she's bringing 3 of her girlfriends along. I'm starting to understand why they call it a "y" chromosome. "Y oh Y do i allow myself to get into these situations."
The bad news is the girl we are taking in our car talks loud. Plus she is a school psych like my wife so they talk shop for FREAKING HOURS on end. We'll be in a Civic, for an hour, talking about tests and standard deviations and behaviors. All of which I know just enough about to be bored to tears by it. Then we'll get out, eat some so-so chocolate and taste some way overly sweet wine (which i happened to get sick off of on New Years Eve:barf: ), AND it's going to be cold and windy.
Munk, you wanna trade places for the day? I hate the cold, but this weekend is WAY down my list of "Things Jake would rather be doing". Somewhere between math homework and having my nipple hair pulled out with pliers.

Jake
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up here in the coastal north east, it's 60ish today, it's supposed to drop to the 20s shortly, maybe more. less than a week ago, we had 20+ inches of snow. today? all gone. hah.

as for loud people in cars, earplugs, or maybe your own personal ipod. they'll never notice. yes. :)

bladite
 
munk said:
I've stepped outside when it's been -40.

I don't know there is any clothing protection available when it's blowing hard in a blizzard. Why do people die on
Everest? They're on their way down and a storm hits. When storms hit in the far North people hunker down or die. There must be some limit to clothing.

It's funny how things break in the cold. Not funny if you're on the road.

I guess I should add it was in the upper 50's and 60's last week.

munk
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speaking of breaking, a car parked outside was in full sun and we had a fast 20+ degree temperature drop right after a super hard (cold) rain, the car went into shadow, and PHOOOOMP - the rear window completely and totally turned to particles. go safety glass. wow. i was standing 20 feet from it, and it was more surprising than having pyrex cookware go splody :)

bladite
 
You could always come warm up in Alaska. Everything's been melting off for the last week and a half or so.:D

Actually it's gonna break my heart soon, but I can't help it. My every instinct is screaming out "IT'S SPRINGTIME!! YAY!!!!" But inside my mind I know we're gonna get freakin' dumped on some time in the next six weeks.


Heaven forbid, if we didn't get any more snow it could severely damage our wild mosquito population come summer....couldn't have that...:rolleyes:
 
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