Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Back when I was in high school, we had a cold snap up here and the warmest it got for a few weeks was -40F or so. In some low-lying areas it hit -83F.
School was not cancelled for the first few days. They do not cancel up here due to snow or temperatures, but will cancel based on slick roads, or in the case of the cold snap, because visibility was too limited by ice fog. My sister and brother-in-law were up from Seattle for Christmas, and my brother-in-law and my dad were outside with me helping change out the radiator in my car at -73F. We had one of those heaters that looks like a small jet engine on wheels sitting in front of a metal box thing my dad picked up from a local welding shop, it routed the hot air under the car and up through the engine compartment.
Even so, the rubber hoses contracted in the cold so much they would not stretch over the fittings. We had to warm them up in the house, then run out and attach them.
As for the trick with the boiling water, it is not that it freezes before hitting the ground, but that it evaporates and never hits the ground.
Link to a webcam the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner has pointed outside.
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Back when I was in high school, we had a cold snap up here and the warmest it got for a few weeks was -40F or so. In some low-lying areas it hit -83F.
School was not cancelled for the first few days. They do not cancel up here due to snow or temperatures, but will cancel based on slick roads, or in the case of the cold snap, because visibility was too limited by ice fog. My sister and brother-in-law were up from Seattle for Christmas, and my brother-in-law and my dad were outside with me helping change out the radiator in my car at -73F. We had one of those heaters that looks like a small jet engine on wheels sitting in front of a metal box thing my dad picked up from a local welding shop, it routed the hot air under the car and up through the engine compartment.
Even so, the rubber hoses contracted in the cold so much they would not stretch over the fittings. We had to warm them up in the house, then run out and attach them.
As for the trick with the boiling water, it is not that it freezes before hitting the ground, but that it evaporates and never hits the ground.
Link to a webcam the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner has pointed outside.
Hahaha... I was a senior at West Valley when that happened.
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Back when I was in high school, we had a cold snap up here and the warmest it got for a few weeks was -40F or so. In some low-lying areas it hit -83F.
School was not cancelled for the first few days. They do not cancel up here due to snow or temperatures, but will cancel based on slick roads, or in the case of the cold snap, because visibility was too limited by ice fog. My sister and brother-in-law were up from Seattle for Christmas, and my brother-in-law and my dad were outside with me helping change out the radiator in my car at -73F. We had one of those heaters that looks like a small jet engine on wheels sitting in front of a metal box thing my dad picked up from a local welding shop, it routed the hot air under the car and up through the engine compartment.
Even so, the rubber hoses contracted in the cold so much they would not stretch over the fittings. We had to warm them up in the house, then run out and attach them.
As for the trick with the boiling water, it is not that it freezes before hitting the ground, but that it evaporates and never hits the ground.
Link to a webcam the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner has pointed outside.
Hahaha... I was a senior at West Valley when that happened.
I was going to NPHS at the time. What year did you graduate?
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
I'm only up here for three more weeks. Then I'm back to my little shack in Maui.
I can't wait!
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
I'm only up here for three more weeks. Then I'm back to my little shack in Maui.
I can't wait!
It was about 82 here today...but about 45 at the top of Haleakala...then the clouds moved back in along with the wind and it got fucking cold!
As we drive back down the mountain, it got balmy again. Kula was about 65 when we were there about 4 p.m. It's 72 or so in Lahaina right now...
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
I'm only up here for three more weeks. Then I'm back to my little shack in Maui.
I can't wait!
It was about 82 here today...but about 45 at the top of Haleakala...then the clouds moved back in along with the wind and it got fucking cold!
As we drive back down the mountain, it got balmy again. Kula was about 65 when we were there about 4 p.m. It's 72 or so in Lahaina right now...
I hate you.
Originally posted by: XZeroII
That's nothing...one time I ran buck naked outside from my house to work (10 miles) in -100 degree weather just for the exercise.
Originally posted by: jjsole
Your heating bill must be insane...
Originally posted by: fallensight
I always use the phrase "cold as a witch's tit". Cold as balls just doesnt make that much sense to me.
Originally posted by: austin316
and now you know why a shoebox of a home in SoCal goes for $1,000,000.
Originally posted by: XZeroII
That's nothing...one time I ran buck naked outside from my house to work (10 miles) in -100 degree weather just for the exercise.