Now This Is Cold
 

And here I was unhappy about it being in the upper 30s here with a heavy, wet fog. But this is really more than I would want to be in.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090108/...a_extreme_cold

Ron :eek:

I live in Tx because I hate the cold

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0113527.html


http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0113527.html

Dan,

Now that is an interesting chart. I never realized that we had any temperatures as low as some of those show.

Ron :eek:

Well, I guess these temps we are getting are a heat wave.

:LOL:

I recall some special about the coldest inhabited place on earth, I believe it was in Russia?. One thing that surprised me!, the water lines were above ground and heated every few feet.

I escaped from the 51st state (Canada) 21 years ago and now live in paradsie - the central coast of California. My first 40 years of life was in Winnipeg , Manitoba, a city of 600,000 just 60 miles north of the US/North Dakota border.
Temps from the week before Christmas thru mid/end of Feb hover around -30degF daily PLUS the wind chill, often making it -40 to -50 below.
I recall (I'll have to research it to confirm my poor memory) a low of -72 with wind chill.
Unless you've experienced it for days and weeks on end, you have no idea how cold that is!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greg

When I first seen the thread title I expected to see a picture of my exwife when I opened the thread.:rolleyes::CRY:

but ron you of all people should be immune to the cold, living through 2 iceages the low 30's should be a piece of cake.

60 below is nice swiming weather for us Yankees ....

http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...nowswimmer.jpg

But we had thousands of years to adapt to those temperatures both as it got colder and as it warmed up. None of this short stuff of a few hundred years to try and adapt to the rapid changes. :D

Ron :p

WOW! I guess I can appreciate not swimming in Lake Havasu when it's 50 degrees this winter.
I hope our girl Sara is keeping warm up there in Alaska...You betch-ya!

Bill

Off the topic but have you seen the flooding Washington is having around Tacoma? I used to spend a lot of time in Tacoma and the surrounding areas including Olympia and Seattle. That is where I got to see the Battleship Missouri as they had it moored at Bremerton and were letting people go aboard to look it over. It rained almost every day I was up there but I don't remember ever seeing any snow.

Ron

For someone that loves sunshine, me, this place sucks.

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The weather must be weird in Washington. The railroad diverted some trains around the middle corridor (here) because of avalances on the north high-line. But then they restricted top speed from 60mph down to 45mph to slow their arrival down because of flooding in Seattle.

We are supposed to get severe cold here about next Wednesday. It appears to be the front moving down from the NW. They expect down to -30° F. This year if it isn't cold here, it snows, oh well.

Back in about 1967-68, I needed to see a girlfriend off at a bus station and went out to start my car (1958 Ford ragtop) but it wouldn't start. It was -40° F outside (unusual) but it didn't feel like it with no wind. So I walked about 4 blocks to borrow a car. I wasn't dressed warm, with just a jacket on. That short distance I would have been OK except my ears got cold and I needed to warm them with my hands. Then my hands got cold, so I alternated putting them in my pockets. Within minutes I borrowed a car and drove from Mandan over the Missouri River to the Bismarck bus station.

Half way over to Bismarck my ears thawed out and they suddenly hurt so bad I was nearly in tears. But I made the bus station in time.

About a half hour later, I was home and my ears were greatly swollen, hot and brilliant red. My little brother thought it was so funny. He nabbed one and blurted, "Think they'll break off?"

Christ.

It did ...or tore on top anyway with a pretty light tug. Bled like a stuck hog. Worse yet, within a few days I shipped out for Basic Training. I told that barber not to pull on them on account they just got froze and were fragile. Sure enough, he bent them clean over to brutally cut my hair and the same ear bled again. My hair wasn't that long to start with. Butchers. :mad:

It's a true story. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't lived it. My ears were OK again in a couple of months. Maybe they get cold easier now and my hearing is going to hell. :o

Wes


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Wes,

That is quite a story and you are fortunate that you never had frostbite and had to have part of the ear removed. Of course your little brother would have helped you with that.

Ron :p

I see Warren is really proud of his picture of his behind in the snow.

It has been on some many posts, we should make it a sticky.

Jamo, can we put Warren's shot of him swimming in the snow up on a sticky??

Just wondering.

:D :D

I think it should be put on Obama's web site. And titled, Friend of the Kennedys.

Ron :LOL:

Tru - you know thats a picture of you. I also have the rare Tru fairy picture before the snowblower tractor.

http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d..._Shoveling.jpg