Cold enough for ya ?
- Thread starter TK4
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My tolerance for cold as I get older gets lower and lower.
Not a fan. Bring back spring!
Not a fan. Bring back spring!
sburns
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I think you need a winter activity... maybe this will help!
So what's on the books for GTAMers for the winter? Riding is over (for me it was early Nov) and now looking for some new things to do as 3 kids, a house, and work are not enough to take up every waking moment.
First off, I started racing on my PS4 as I remembered how much I enjoyed it when I was younger, and still do apparently! I tried out a racing wheel and after much searching scored a good Black Friday deal on my wheel. Stupid fun compared to the controller!
(Excuse the mess)
Also got into some puzzles but need to find a way to do it during my spare time...
First off, I started racing on my PS4 as I remembered how much I enjoyed it when I was younger, and still do apparently! I tried out a racing wheel and after much searching scored a good Black Friday deal on my wheel. Stupid fun compared to the controller!
(Excuse the mess)
Also got into some puzzles but need to find a way to do it during my spare time...
I have to agree, I'm out for many hours and even dressed appropriately the cold sinks into my bones and lingers... I'd rather be cutting grass then plowing snow any day.
Mad Mike
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This time last week I was at a FIFO up on the Hudson Bay coast, -32 was the high for 3 days straight, with the wind chill bringing us below -40. So cold 2 of our trucks wouldn't start (the Fords of course), and the fuel in our frost fighters froze. 2 x 12 hour days with no heat at -30 is a chilling experience.
But the worst was a lesson re-learned. I use a big Milwaukee tape measure, i couldn't grip the tape hook with big winter gloves so I used my teeth to pull it out a few inches. The friggin tape hook froze solid to the end of my tongue, as I pulled the tape back, it peeled off a chunk of tongue flesh.
Still hurts a week later.
But the worst was a lesson re-learned. I use a big Milwaukee tape measure, i couldn't grip the tape hook with big winter gloves so I used my teeth to pull it out a few inches. The friggin tape hook froze solid to the end of my tongue, as I pulled the tape back, it peeled off a chunk of tongue flesh.
Still hurts a week later.
Mad Mike
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Something about dry cold? Ya - dry lips and dry everything else that's exposed. -15 are peasant days 'pleasant days' when I'm in the North, below that things start to get weird.
Below -20 vehicles don't always start, power tools slow down and break, mindfuck sets in (poor decisions, rushed procedures, increased risk-taking)
At -30, it's seriously cold. Frostbite on exposed skin in minutes, boot soles go rock hard, making walking on snow and ice treacherous, fuel system freeze up (diesels and heaters in particular), fine motor skills disappear, risk-taking goes into the danger zone.
Another thing you find with cold is that people have wildly different tolerances. Some folks are at their limit and tap out at a relatively balmy -10, while others can go without complaining down to -40.
I can work at -30, but very little gets done. Anything colder and I tap out.
TK4
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Sunday, Dec. 21 at 10:33 am is solstice.
From there it should all be uphill (barring the usual mid-winter deep dumps) right ?
TK4
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Not unusual. Even with a block heater if it's cold enough they won't want to start.
Mad Mike
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The shut off gasoline trucks. If trucks are left running, it's usually to provide a warmup area for the workers, or below -30 to keep diesels from freezing up.
guzzirider
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Winter of 72 in Sault Ste. Marie -32F with a 60kph wind blowing off of 300 miles of open Lake Superior water.
All the traffic lights quit working because the relays froze from the moisture.
If you closed your car door all the way it froze shut and you could brake your door handle trying to pull it open.
All the traffic lights quit working because the relays froze from the moisture.
If you closed your car door all the way it froze shut and you could brake your door handle trying to pull it open.
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sburns
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Hey at least when it's usually cold out the sun is out, I don't mind more sun then those in between gray days. Remember last year with that mild winter, it was gray all the time.. yuk!
