Viking1066
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You are right. I remember people putting on their winter coats and boots on when the cold front of 60 degrees hit. I just wore my tee shirt.
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You are right. I remember people putting on their winter coats and boots on when the cold front of 60 degrees hit. I just wore my tee shirt.It is crazy when is gets cold here despite the number of people that has moved in from the NE. The running gag on the radio is to wrap your pipes as soon as the temperature hits 40 F.
Spent four years in north central Indiana, I was raised in the mountains of Oregon and Idaho. I thought I knew cold. BS, I've never been as cold as Grissom AFB was, never want to be EVER again! First winter there it hit -25F and I got there from three years on Guam. We were housed in barracks built in WWII by the Navy ( Grissom was originally a Naval aviation station). Barracks were heated by a central steam plant and that froze coming into the barracks. We were all in full artic weather gear huddled up in the rec (day) room. Two days later I arrived in Panama for a month!!!!!!!!We're down to really cold here -8F, windchill -25.
Approaching f***ing cold overnight. (-20F)
Four of us climbed into a 66 VW bug to of to Chicago from Grissom on a late January morning. Don't think we got ten miles and abandon that idea.The coldest I have ever been was in the back seat of a Morris Minor travelling through Amarillo in December 1960.
For those of you in the U.S., the Morris minor heater was the size of a shoebox and tried to warm the feet of the person riding shotgun.
A bit of trivia: The first (only?) time I ever evaded and ran from police was on that trip. My turn to drive, to warm up, and with four people on board, the little beast would almost maintain 80MPH in flat central Texas. Pitch black, no traffic anywhere, I saw a small town far ahead. Closer in, there was the local mountie in someone's driveway. Seeing there was some kind of statue dead center in the town square, I could see the mountie's head lights just turning on to the highway in the mirror. Fortunately just before reporting to the USAF in 1959, a friend had bought a new '59 Morris Minor so all of us back then knew how it handled. I kept the pedal down, made quick right, left, right around the statue back to the straight and level. When I next saw lights in the mirror they were very faint & close together and soon turned around.
Sorry for the story, the cold made me think of it.
Four of us climbed into a 66 VW bug to of to Chicago from Grissom on a late January morning. Don't think we got ten miles and abandon that idea.
Being a grown up can really suck sometimes.Tomorrow morning is supposed to be -20 F. School is cancelled. Work is not.
I can never remember having a cold/snow day at work. -40°C/WC-60°C, keep the equipment running so they don't freeze up, keep working and don't lick the handrails
And I thought it was just flag poles!I can never remember having a cold/snow day at work. -40°C/WC-60°C, keep the equipment running so they don't freeze up, keep working and don't lick the handrails
Does that mean you are allowed to eat the bowl of hard candies that's been sitting out since Christmas?We're getting wintry mix now. Yay.
Does that mean you are allowed to eat the bowl of hard candies that's been sitting out since Christmas?