Viking1066
Brigadier General
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.
The Weather Where You Live? (20 Viewers)
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Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
We're down to really cold here -8F, windchill -25.
Approaching f***ing cold overnight. (-20F)
Approaching f***ing cold overnight. (-20F)
Donivanp
Colonel
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!!!!!!!!
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
You would think there would be a service ribbon or commendation for that.
"Service in really crappy climate award" or something.
"Service in really crappy climate award" or something.
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Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
Tomorrow it will be only 25F in DC for the inauguration.
That's right. A cold day in Hell.
That's right. A cold day in Hell.
special ed
1st Lieutenant
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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.
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.
Viking1066
Brigadier General
Todays Grand Forks is -20 for the high (without the windchill). Here it is a balmy -15 without the wind chill. Well below the norm. It's that darned cold front we all have.
Donivanp
Colonel
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.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Thumpalumpacus
Colonel
We're hovering around freezing right now, heading down to 24F for the overnight low.
Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
Tomorrow morning is supposed to be -20 F. School is cancelled. Work is not.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Being a grown up can really suck sometimes.
fubar57
General
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
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Donivanp
Colonel
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I'm surprised my kids school is not cancelled tomorrow since tomorrow is forecasted to be -1 F.
Thumpalumpacus
Colonel
We're getting wintry mix now. Yay.
Viking1066
Brigadier General
School closed tomorrow. One day of school this week on Wednesday. Home work day Thursday and PD Friday work day from home.
Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
Does that mean you are allowed to eat the bowl of hard candies that's been sitting out since Christmas?
