Freezing to death

[skammer]

It'd take an awful strange situation for someone to actually "freeze to death." Most situations I can think of, they'd die of hypothermia (core temperature dropping, as mentioned above) long before they actually froze.

Freezing to death is a poor play on words. As you said people dont literally freeze to death they die of hypothermia loong before anything critical freezes.

Skam

 

[sams]

While on active duty I spent 4 days wet and cold. Night time was in the mid 20's F; Day time was in the upper 30"s F. No fire, could'nt, and no dry clothes. The shivering was painful. Impossible to sleep. It was terrible to have to wade through the water. I still don't know how we surrvivied. I remember my father telling me it would be like that, and I didn't believe him. He was on the front lines for 3 years WW2 incl the Battle of the Bluge. On leave he saw me emaciated and sickly and he asked how was it. I couldn't answer, it was then I realized why he never talked about the war.

I live in Florida now and today it is 94 degrees F, heat index higher.

 

[Watchful]

I somehow got into a conversation like this a few years back at a backyard party. The topic was actually the need for shelter and fire, as skam mentioned.

A relative of my wife's asked what sort of risk there was really from hypothermia even in warm weather.

I pointed over to the swimming pool in the yard, where there was a kid--just out of the pool--shivering uncontrollably when the sun when behind some clouds. The kid was hurrying to get a towel around his shoulders.

"That," I said, "...is how easy it is."

 

[mrwebster]

I somehow got into a conversation like this a few years back at a backyard party. The topic was actually the need for shelter and fire, as skam mentioned.

A relative of my wife's asked what sort of risk there was really from hypothermia even in warm weather.

I pointed over to the swimming pool in the yard, where there was a kid--just out of the pool--shivering uncontrollably when the sun when behind some clouds. The kid was hurrying to get a towel around his shoulders.

"That," I said, "...is how easy it is."

Tragically happens here in the NW each summer and on the hottest days. People jump into those ice cold streams and start losing body heat pretty quickly. Can't get out of the water and drown.