think it's cold where you live? check out the frozen north

[mckitterick]

I just heard on NPR that places in Minnesota and the Dakotas have night-time lows as cold as - get this - thirty degrees below zero (yes, -30F). That's without wind-chill. Wow. Now I feel like a wuss for shivering so hard on my scoot-ride home last night in the teens.

Stay warm,
Chris

Comments

[edichka2.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cold. Coldest I've been in was -29C (-20F), in Finland near the gulf, and a wet cold it was. Coldest I've ever felt, though, was in Leningrad at about -10F, crossing a bridge over the frozen Neva, wet wind from the Gulf screaming in, funneled through the chutes of the riverways. I mean, enough velocity to blow you over or at least skate you sideways a few feet across the icy sidewalks.

- Eddie

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Wow, yeah; that reminds me of the week in Northeastern Montana one winter when the temp was in the negatives... as low as -40F... with a brisk wind as high as 40mph. Wow. That was wicked.

[frabjousdave.livejournal.com]

Even in what is now to me the relatively balmy state of Wisconsin, I had the exciting experience of having my eyes freeze briefly open one windy night.

I try not to complain until it goes below -20 C anymore.

[uppityfaggot.livejournal.com]

Actually... no. It's not cold here where I live.

Pretty warm, actually. And not even all that wet.

No problem.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Braggart *g*

[uppityfaggot.livejournal.com]

Please to notice that it wasn't I who moved from Seattle...

:)

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Now that I think about it, I'm not sure which is worse: Constant damp-cold or dry-really-cold. Hm. At least here the water remains frozen rather than turning the north walls of houses green *g*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And you know what? When I lived in California, I missed this. I didn't miss the idealization of it. I missed the thing itself, the way the air sears your lungs if you are stupid enough to breathe it without a scarf and the way your feet don't get warm for more than an hour or two a day and the whole shebang.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean, but mostly what I miss(ed) has been the snowy landscape. That whole freezing one's lungs solid thing? I can do without that.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

When I was in college we had a notorious three weeks where it was -20 at noon in still air. I don't want to think about how cold it was at night!

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

You're sick! You should not be scooting around in weather like that.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, that probably made the cold feel colder, eh? *g*

I'm about to hit the bed (skipping my office hours today for rest) in hopes of fighting off this stupid cold. Also canceled on Boyz Night Out.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

It's called do-it-yourself-wind-chill, and it certainly *does* make it feel colder.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. And into the wind is downright brutal some days.

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

Dude, you need a snowmobile or a shaggy pony or something other than a scooter for icy, frozen conditions. A sled pulled by reindeer. *Something.*

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I wants me a shaggy pony for getting to work! I could hire a student to brush it and feed it while I'm at class.

and we used to live there

[gregpeteler.livejournal.com]

Can you believe we used to build forts and want to hang out out in that weather. Perception has a lot to do with it eh?

Re: and we used to live there

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and of course the foolishness of youth! I recall diving off the roof of the house and the bridge on the peninsula into great big drifts of snow. Kids are weird. You just watch: Soon Damien will be wanting to play in snow deeper than he is tall, and you'll just shake your head in non-comprehension.

Re: and we used to live there

[gregpeteler.livejournal.com]

Adults have more surface area. Maybe that the excuse. Damn Burger King.