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01-08-2009, 09:02 AM
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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
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01-08-2009, 09:27 AM
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I live in Tx because I hate the cold
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01-08-2009, 10:33 AM
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01-08-2009, 10:37 AM
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01-08-2009, 11:02 AM
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Dan,
Now that is an interesting chart. I never realized that we had any temperatures as low as some of those show.
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01-08-2009, 11:27 AM
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Well, I guess these temps we are getting are a heat wave.
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01-08-2009, 12:15 PM
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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.
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01-08-2009, 04:35 PM
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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!!!!!!!!!!!!
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01-08-2009, 05:36 PM
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01-08-2009, 05:39 PM
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01-08-2009, 08:16 PM
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60 below is nice swiming weather for us Yankees ....
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01-09-2009, 03:14 AM
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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.
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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. 
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01-09-2009, 06:40 AM
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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!
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01-09-2009, 07:27 AM
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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.
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01-09-2009, 05:04 PM
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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.
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01-10-2009, 05:53 AM
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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. 
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. 
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01-10-2009, 06:59 AM
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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.
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01-15-2009, 12:19 PM
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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 ...
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...
...My ears were OK again in a couple of months. Maybe they get cold easier now and my hearing is going to hell.
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Wife says it hit -44° this Thursday morn. New record for Jan 15th in Bismarck.
Lucky me, did not have to go to work in it. She used my Impala, which is parked outside, and says it barely cranked over but did start. Gotta love FI.
She said one weird effect was auto exhaust on the car ahead was so thick, and the air so still, that visability was artificially severely impaired.
I once heard of a town in northern Russia, that is so traditionally cold, that the few cars there have an extra windshield siliconed on the front just to be able to keep frost-free. 
We usually get very little snow but have 61 inches so far. Might have to glue something to my ears till spring. 
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01-15-2009, 12:26 PM
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01-16-2009, 04:30 AM
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Darn Wes, that is cold, but it seems the whole Eastern side of the country is really getting hammered. And we need rain desperately and have to put up with record heat. Days in the low to upper 70s. But if we can't get the rain we need so badly, then I prefer the spring weather to that cold and fog that we have had.
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