G26S239 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 10 hours ago, janice6 said: I spent many a night at -10 or colder, ice skating for hours. I would bang up my knees and elbows, they would swell up like baseballs, freeze my fingers and toes till you couldn't feel them and they seemed like dead blocks of wood. Go home and thaw out. The worst part of freezing appendages is the thawing out. Really painful as the appendages find out all about warm blood again. Then, the next night grab the ice skates and run the 8 blocks to the small lake in town that the city maintained for skating. Freeze thaw cycles were common place for the young. On the rare day that school would be cancelled (below -15) and the car wouldn't start in the morning, in the evening back to the lake ice skating again. But it's too cold to go to school...………… Great times!!! Damn! Coldest place I lived for any time was Utah and I hated when it hit single digits. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 (edited) Got a Refrigiware coat and gloves, insulated PAC boots, insulated leather hat, 180^ ear warmers. going to work tonight and coming home Wednesday. . Edited January 29, 2019 by Dric902 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie-pete Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 We had a plant in Cloquet, MN. I called the plant manager one day in the middle of a blizzard they were having, cold and windy. He said there was close to a 200 degree temperature differential on either side of the office door; 80 inside and close to -100 outside with the wind chill. I only visited him in the Summer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I've noticed that all the weather headlines and associated maps are ONLY showing wind chill predictions. Doom! Dooooooooom! While pretty freakin' cold, the temperatures are not at all unexpected for any given region. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autogeddon Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Global cooling. Al Gore was right after all ! I knew he was smart! A$$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bish1309 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 How fun was my weekend? My band gigged Saturday night. I got home about 1:30. Was still chilled from hauling gear in below freezing temps, sleet and wind. House seemed cold. I went to bed and just shivered until finally getting up about 4 hours later to find the thermostat had quit. House was 55. I couldn't walk on hard floors without socks and slippers. Reading the fine print on the thermostat (programmable) and noticed a tiny little readout saying replace batteries. HUH? I didn't know there were any. So I figured out how to get the main unit off the wall bracket and sure enough two AA batteries. I replaced them, the display lit back up, popped it back on the wall mount and Poof on goes the heat. It ran non-stop until late Sunday night when it finally stabilized. Everything in the house was cold. Grab a plate to make some breakfast and it is freezing. I feel better today. LOL 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 Turned down an ice fishing invite...The high for today...... - 16 FSent from my Jackboot using Copatalk 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
refugeepj Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 this is NOTHING! i once experienced the coldest temperature known to man! sat between my ex wife, her mother, and their lawyer. 3 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 Touched base with a friend up north, when they got up this morning, wind chill of -70 F.I guess that makes them my coolest friend of the new year. Sent from my Jack boot using Copatalk 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 We've only got 11 years and 11 months, now. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Got over a foot of snow yesterday. Fired up the front end loader and plowed at my shop and house. Last night...…. another foot. Wet snow. Could barely move it with the loader. Lots of tire spinning on the ice. Still snowing. Have a snow haul scheduled in town tomorrow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duluth Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 -50 wind chill right now. It's like being on house arrest without the ankle bracelet and alcohol restrictions. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWguy Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 4 hours ago, TBO said: Touched base with a friend up north, when they got up this morning, wind chill of -70 F. I guess that makes them my coolest friend of the new year. Sent from my Jack boot using Copatalk That's crazy cold. Been close to that in Iowa years ago. Things can get deadly rather quickly in those conditions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshe Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 On the bright side in Duluth at -48, my sister-in-law can be opened up like a taun-tuan on Hoth and her husband can crawl in for warmth. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 On 1/27/2019 at 10:58 PM, janice6 said: I spent many a night at -10 or colder, ice skating for hours. I would bang up my knees and elbows, they would swell up like baseballs, freeze my fingers and toes till you couldn't feel them and they seemed like dead blocks of wood. Go home and thaw out. The worst part of freezing appendages is the thawing out. Really painful as the appendages find out all about warm blood again. I distinctly remember the first time I almost really froze my feet off. We were playing hockey a few hills over. Because it was a spring-fed pond, the one end was thin ice. Right where a spring fed in was a hole about big enough for a puck to go in. So the puck went in. One guy went over and used his stick to chip ice (of course we only had one puck. hockey players are smart like that) and was trying to scoop the puck to the edge with his stick. Of course, the next guy thought he could do better. And the next guy. And the next. So, all of us were at the thin end when we all broke through. Up to our waists. Teeny-tiny 'gnads! But we got the puck! Game on! Of course, we kept playing until sundown. As long as we were skating, it wasn't even cold. Walking back for an hour through the woods after dark in snow was a different story. I was crying by the time I got home. My feet were swollen and a very dark purple and agonizingly painful. Even cool water burned like lava. It took an hour for them to turn bright red. And hurt even more. By the time I went to bed, I could put them in warm water and the swelling was going down. They had a dull white color and felt numb for the next several days. I don't think we ever skated on that pond again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARP Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 From my story of winter camping, I don't know if I got frost bite as the skin did not turn black and fall off, but for weeks after that the joints of my feet hurt to walk or stand on them, like the cartlidge was frozen and damaged. I think I have nerve damage on my fingers from cold, they get cold real easy and get numb when it's cold out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moeman Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 21 hours ago, autogeddon said: Global cooling. Al Gore was right after all ! I knew he was smart! A$$. Actually this is because very warm air went to the pole and displaced the cold. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47047089 and warming? Ask the Aussies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 11 minutes ago, ARP said: I think I have nerve damage on my fingers from cold, they get cold real easy and get numb when it's cold out. I didn't even know it had a name until a while ago, but yes, my fingers and toes have severe Raynaud's Disease, ever since I was young. Probably from winter-pond-swimming and riding motorcycles throughout northeast winters (hey, they're all i had for several years). It doesn't even have to get very cold. Low 50's and 40's will make segments of my fingers a creepy dead white. It doesn't hurt at all, but they feel numb and don't really work right. It doesn't seem to happen when it's cold-cold. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 19 minutes ago, ARP said: From my story of winter camping, I don't know if I got frost bite as the skin did not turn black and fall off, but for weeks after that the joints of my feet hurt to walk or stand on them, like the cartlidge was frozen and damaged. I think I have nerve damage on my fingers from cold, they get cold real easy and get numb when it's cold out. It is claimed that a bad case of frost bite, or repeated frost bites, will cause you to be more sensitive to the cold in the affected appendage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autogeddon Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 It's negative 5 now. Global warming is starting real soon. Should I call Al Gore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 My patio thermometer says -22F right now with a wind. The house is nice an comfortable. I really like crawling into a heated waterbed when it's cold outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 8 minutes ago, janice6 said: My patio thermometer says -22F right now with a wind. The house is nice an comfortable. I really like crawling into a heated waterbed when it's cold outside. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 33 minutes ago, TBO said: I'm not afraid! I filled my bird feeder! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bish1309 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 When you have a small dog, they have difficulties with this type of weather. I have to shovel the yard to give her a bathroom. This picture was last Saturday before we received the newest 6" additional Sunday night. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Bish1309 said: When you have a small dog, they have difficulties with this type of weather. I have to shovel the yard to give her a bathroom. This picture was last Saturday before we received the newest 6" additional Sunday night. I have a Yorkie and my patio is covered. I clean it every snow and he has the Owner's blessing to do his business anywhere he chooses outside. I'm so happy to have him that I don't mind cleaning the slab after he's done. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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