Jan 06, 2004 08:30 am yup, -18 windchill this morning...
thank God for garages...thats all I got to say...
It's so !$%*#! cold....
Posted on Jan 06, 2004 08:29 am
TheTincanbug
sloppy dice, drinks twice
Member Since: Aug 05, 2003
....I had ice frozen on the inside of my car windows this morning. I kept scraping it off on the way to work, only to have it reform within minutes due to condensation. That it - I've had enough. I'm buying a damn compact hair dryer on my lunch break so I can keep it in my car. (I have a power inverter outlet I can run it off of) God, I hate Chicago winters.... brr..... I don't know how the hell Canadians manage to live in that snowcone they call a country, I'm cold enough here in the windy city. (grumble, grumble, grumble...)
[ Back to Top ]
Jan 06, 2004 08:30 am yup, -18 windchill this morning...
thank God for garages...thats all I got to say...
Jan 06, 2004 12:41 pm i wish i was up there.
it was 81 yesterday. its so BORING. all the time, every day. same exact thing.
Jan 06, 2004 01:13 pm I would love for it to be 81 degrees all the time!
This morning I had to pound the side of the car to break the ice enough to allow me to open the door. The key wouldn't turn the lock at first because it was so cold. The windows wouldn't roll down at first, either, had to chip the ice off of them too (have to have an open window for the tollbooth if possible). After starting the car to let it warm up, I had to chip through the ice-encrusted snow on my car and scrape it off, so that I could see out the windows. This was all done before dawn, in a steady arctic wind that could literally freeze the flesh from your bones. Once on the road, the temperature difference between the inside and outside made condensation on the inside surface of the windows, turning all my windows opaque under a thin layer of ice that would scrape off properly because my ice scraper has a flat blade edge and the window is curved. Once scraped, the ice would reform within 5 minutes.
I would gladly trade places! I hate the cold. I always wanted to move someplace warm but my and my wife's family is all in central and upper Illinois....
fyi... the old story about how you shouldn't put your tongue on a metal surface in cold weather is true. You folks in warmer climates, don't fall for it when you come a-visiting. :)
Jan 06, 2004 01:15 pm I like the change of seasons, I like snow and all that, I love it, I even don't mind cold...BUT, it's the so-cold-it's-physically-painful that I can do without...like this morning...
Jan 06, 2004 01:20 pm -35 C here today... Not sure what with windchill, but it's cold enough that my fingers hurt after 5 minutes...
W.
Jan 06, 2004 01:37 pm time to move to spain i think waldo...
Jan 06, 2004 04:22 pm most people don't realize the pitfalls of florida. they're subtle and maddening. do you know what's good about up north? do you know what you have there?
how about the immiment expectation, the threat, of snowfall. warm glowing houses--oases of comfort and light. the scent of danger in the air near halloween. woodsmoke and the coming Death. rotating fashions, different wardrobes, different identities. girls bundled up--more clothes to imagine your way past.
or how about overcast spring days, with the first birdsong in the air. the aura of rebirth. the anticipation of summer and summertime plans. a life enfolded, just bursting to erupt at the seams!
humid summer days where the sun doesn't break through. a heavy, gray week, ongoing thunderstorms. slow lassitude and timelessness!
in florida, it's variations on a theme. if your mood is attached to weather, wish this place away. visit but don't move. because you'll have blue skies beneath an angry, glowering sun, every day. that sun is watching you, beating down, urging you to be a 24-hour extrovert. you'll be living in a town full of blue-sky people who have forgotten thier quirky miseries, who have lost whole dimensions of their personalities in a faustian bargain!
you'll smell snow a few days a year--but it will never come, maddeningly enough. halloween decorations will go up a week before, not a month and a half, and not everyone will participate. you'll edit birds out--forgetting about them--because they'll be there all the time. you'll never have the opportunity to jam in a basement on a cold rainy day, because it's never cold and it's only rarely a 'rainy' day, and oh yeah--no basements anywhere. no up, no down. no reason to crane your neck. no hills, no twists and turns in the road. a 2-D world. you'll never use your highbeams as long as you live here. you'll realize that fact SIX years after you move here, in a moment of utter shock.
spring is gone, fall is gone, winter is gone. you'll have trouble locating yourself in time. one year will merge into the next in the absence of seasonal markers!
RUN! RUNNNN! Good GOD, RUN AWAY!
Jan 06, 2004 05:05 pm Well, you sold me Forty. That's some nice, rhetorical writing.
Jan 06, 2004 05:39 pm Yeah, I must admit I love the changing of seasons. Each season has its own feelings and sense of nostalgia. My only gripe is that winter is too long and summer is too short. I like winter, but it's longer than summer here and that's just no good. I'm always ready for winter to end before it does, but I'm never ready for summer to. I would get bored of summer if it went on for another 3 months more than it does, though. Anybody else notice how much more of an effect music has when you can associate it with a season?
Jan 06, 2004 05:42 pm I listen to modest mouse more in the winter than I do in the summer.
Jan 06, 2004 07:36 pm Woah, forty that was pretty kool. I started to dream about living were I live, only to realize, I do live here. then suddenly without remorse, you chuck me into eternal damnation of the gods of the sun. Man, I think that little bit would fit right into some existential piece about the existance of man, or something like that.
I do have to admit, I too love the change of season and all that is good about Minnessota. But I will agree with dB, I can live without the bonechilling wind chill, the kind that turns your flesh into black jello in about 45 seconds. And to think I love it enough here to even go camp outside in the woods when its this dang cold out. What am I some kind of nutcase? OH ya, not a nutcase, just doing it for the boys. Man I hope there is enough snow to make an igloo though, I dont wanna have to sleep in a tent.
Jan 06, 2004 07:54 pm "edit birds out"
That's been stuck in my mind since I read it. It sounds like a modest mouse song title or something.
Jan 06, 2004 08:40 pm i'm with ya. no one likes that deep horrible part of winter. it drags on. for me it's a small price to pay, though.
i went camping in deep winter, once. february in ohio. with about 5 people. we slept fully bundled inside a tent, socks and boots and jackets and jeans. the best thing was a canteen full of jack daniels.
all my best musical memories are associated with seasons.
Jan 06, 2004 09:16 pm OH yes, and the worst for me is the long days sometimes several in a row without sunshine. I get so depressed without sunshine, and my motor almost grinds to a halt by the third day, is is unbearable sometimes.
And yes I have camped in the winter several time before, but this time will be differant. Modern up to date gear, PolarTech Fleece and all the goodies. A mummy bag good to 45 below, and a nice warm fleece hat to sleep in. And you do know that it is not good to sleep with all your gear on, it is best to strip down to you long johns and climb in the bag, it will actually keep you warmer. But ya gotta have that Polypropalene underwear to wick the moisture away. I may just enjoy this one. First weekend in February and like I said, I hope it snows some more here so we can build a dang igloo.
Jan 08, 2004 08:36 am heh when I was in scouts we had these things called "polar bears". We'd go camping in basicaly a shelter half on a January weekend in Michigan... I remember one where it was -72F with windchill... you wake up and everything is frozen...food... cloths.... plastic shatters like thin glass...
But honestly I've visited Florida enough to never want to live there... It rains at 10am everyday and then it's too hot to do anything.
I have been in flodia when it froze once though... 4 inches of ice on everything...it was crazy.... of course it was 60F by the afternoon...
Jan 08, 2004 12:00 pm yes, in the summer the rain follows that pattern--rain every day in the early afternoon. sort of its own season--monsoon season or something. nothing wonderful, but it breaks the heat a bit and is a unique sort of pattern, at least.
hope johnny hero is having a good time here...
here's a little florida story. i'm outside smoking at three AM the other night at the foot of the drive. an armadillo emerges from the neighbor's hedge. i stand watching for a good minute, wondering how close it's going to get. (these things are deaf, blind, and very stupid). it click-clacks across the street heading directly toward me. i start to smile, but...maybe it has like, rabies or something. you never know. finally, it's no more than a body-length away, and i scrape my foot on the pavement to warn it. it stops, freezes, then jumps straight up and starts running away. i'm sure it would have walked right into my legs had i not made a sound.
i have touched these things with bicycle tires in the past, inching up to them and touching thier backs with the wheel before they notice they're being stalked. how could such an animal evolve? that shell cant be that good!
Jan 08, 2004 12:22 pm I'm not there yet! I'm supposed to be leaving saturday... but I might stay here now... next weeks shows are pretty promising... Stretch Arm Strong AND The River City Rebels... I can't pass those shows up...
Jan 08, 2004 12:40 pm armidillos, deaf dumb and blind, but they sure play a mean pin-ball.
Jan 08, 2004 01:14 pm How do you think he does it?
Jan 08, 2004 02:22 pm I live 3 hours away from the North West Territories and it gets -40c here quite often without windchill.
Jan 08, 2004 02:37 pm Where are the NW Territories?
Jan 08, 2004 04:08 pm Your kidding right?
Very Northern Canada. Above the 60th parallel.
Jan 08, 2004 04:59 pm thats great man. my friend is a lodge caretaker this year in levelock, alaska. down on the peninsula. alone, "the shining" style. god love the distant, hostile lands!
w00t!
Jan 08, 2004 06:25 pm And welcome to HRC Gregor. Make yourself at home.
3 hours form the NWT, that is some nice country up there, I have been there a couple times when I was young. Dont really remember much, but the scenery and the fishing was good, peacefull I would say.
I can just about picture you stalking an armadilo forty, the thought makes me chuckle.
Jan 08, 2004 09:54 pm yes, welcome gregor, sir.
(we have wild peacocks here too, noize)
Jan 08, 2004 10:32 pm forty, peacocks rule. I went out with a girl who's father was abit of kilter and hea kept peacocks in his yard. (The yard was about 6 acres) And those things were not very friendly at all. But indeed they were cool to look at. Anyway, do ya stalk them on your bicycle as well?
Jan 08, 2004 11:44 pm Some great descriptions of cold weather and Fla. I was laughing till my sides hurt!
I grew up in N.E. Ohio and drove VWs so I know what that ice on the inside of the windshield is all about LoL! It's not really driving, its more of a controlled slide.
Got off the train in downtown Cleveland for the Browns vs Raiders playoff game in 79 and the time and temp. said '11:30am.....with windchill....-30? F' . ...Forth quarter...brain to toes, come in toes,over.... no answer.
I live in Phoenix now and even though I've seen my thermometer pegged at 120 F in the shade and you take a bottle of water with you when you go to the mailbox, I wouldn't ever think about living in snow again. I kinda miss fall, the crispy air, the leaves changing, muddy football games, but I'll be content with looking at the snow on the mountain tops 60 miles away.
Jan 09, 2004 12:04 am dang, i spelled imminent with an m. what a horrible typo.
yeah, the cold is not for everyone, i guess.
i drove through arizona this summer. it was like another world. my first time in the west. drove from florida to LA. texas was vast and incredible. arizona was, likewise, like some alien world.
the desert is cool. i approve. :)
Jan 09, 2004 02:02 am Yeah, I was in Phoenix a couple weeks ago to see CAL beat Virginia Tech in the Insight bowl. I felt like I was in third world, or at least a second world country. It wasn't normal to me at all. But at least CAL won. It was still pretty cold though.
Jan 09, 2004 04:17 pm forty, Arizona is an alien world, didnt you know that.
Jan 09, 2004 05:49 pm ok, imagine this:
65 F on Christmas. 3 weeks later its in the upper 70s. Feb. will have some cold days (50 F) and around 30 F on some nites. March will be 60s - 70s. April will be 70s - 80s. May will be 80s - 90s. June will be 95 - 105/110. July and August are unbelieveably hot. Fall is hot turning to cool by halloween. All this with 6 to 12 inches of rain for the YEAR and months on end without a cloud. Humidity is very low especially in May/June 5%-10% at times. This is my favorite time of the year, you dont sweat, it evaporates before it can puddle up. Get out of the pool when its 110 and you get so chilled your teeth chatter, but it doesn't last long.
It was definately culture shock when I first moved here but I've dumbed down.
Yep...
Arizona is an alien world.
Jan 09, 2004 06:46 pm humidity is my immortal foe. i want it in the summer, sure--that's what summer is for. but not every day.
the prime characteristic of a great weather system, in my book, is very low humidity. when we get those days here, (very very rare) i'm a changed guy. awareness of humidity has even somehow spawned in me the odd ability to call the humidity to within 5 percentage points. i notice it. i notice it and hate it.
|
Related Forum Topics: |
If you would like to participate in the forum discussions, feel free to register for your free membership.