[Foshizzle]

-16c, I don't even wanna walk the 50m to the store

 

[Kpalsm]

I've got a "stuck in the cold" story for you. You may have read me posting about me growing up in Fort McMurray, and how it regularly drops below -40 there. Winter lasts 8 or 9 months there, and you get about three hours of daylight for most of those months (also it can rise to 100 F in the summer, it's a strange place). Imagine spending two entire winters in that kind of cold with no electricity in your home. I grew up in a poor family, in a rich town. Very bad combination. Electricity prices rose to a point where we couldn't afford it, so we did the best we could with candles and two small propane heaters.

As I mentioned, we were poor, so we lived in a mobile home (trailer). When there's a hole in the floor of your bedroom as there was mine, I could have had every candle and heater in the house and it wouldn't have made much difference. I was still in high-school during both of these years, which was very very hard. Difficult to do homework when it's cold enough to freeze the ink in a pen, or freeze your hand to a pencil, inside your home

 

[appophylite]

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Originally Posted by Kpalsm /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've got a "stuck in the cold" story for you. You may have read me posting about me growing up in Fort McMurray, and how it regularly drops below -40 there. Winter lasts 8 or 9 months there, and you get about three hours of daylight for most of those months (also it can rise to 100 F in the summer, it's a strange place).

Not so strange. Fairbanks, AK is just like that. People we know who come to visit in the summer still question our judgement when we tell them it is hot enough that they don't need sweaters or jackets (Pushes right into the 90's). Of course none of them want to stick around for the fun stuff in winter when there's only a couple of hours of sun and temperatures can drop below -60 F.

 

[krmathis]

I just got stuck in the cold for about 1 hour, in -10°C ...
The way back home from work usually take 1 hour with public transportation, but today it took 2 hours 40 minutes. ** MAD **

The winter have just started and I am pissed off already. Miss summertime when I can drive home in 25 minutes on the motorcycle.

 

[Pincher]

It's the warmest it has been in days, it's -12c.

 

[Armaegis]

It's about the same over here. Nice change of pace.

 

[averydonovan]

Just a couple weeks ago we had about a 36-hour period where the temperature did not climb above 0 in Denver. We spent most the the week below freezing. That's a little unusual for this time of the year. In early January (or maybe late December) last Winter we had a day where temperatures were below -20 and wind chill dropped that to below -30. Usually our temperatures are relatively mild, though. And we don't really get much snow until close to Spring.

 

[mark2410]

it snowed here today, melted the instant it hit the ground of course. been really quite cold here, cold enough that ive actually had to put the heating on

 

[iancraig10]

We had snow too in the south. Looks like a cracker tonight and chaos tomorrow for us lot.

Ian

 

[oqvist]

-18 and no engine heater... Equals hellish morning in a frozen car and same on the way back after work

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[thechungster]

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Originally Posted by mark2410 /img/forum/go_quote.gif it snowed here today, melted the instant it hit the ground of course. been really quite cold here, cold enough that ive actually had to put the heating on

Snowed here today as well.

I wonder why our fingers curl up slightly when they get cold.

 

[mark2410]

oooooh was snow out this morn, must have been a good 3mm. its a wonder the city didnt grind to an absolute halt!!!

 

[zotjen]

20 degrees with snow on the way tomorrow

 

[iancraig10]

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Originally Posted by mark2410 /img/forum/go_quote.gif oooooh was snow out this morn, must have been a good 3mm. its a wonder the city didnt grind to an absolute halt!!!

8 inches. I measured it with a special tool that I use for this.

Ian

 

[Armaegis]

I'm sure it wasn't 8 inches by the time you were done poking around in the snow.