Baby it's cold outside!

[HisFirst]

40 minutes ago, SimonB said:

 

What is really tough though is when the overnight min was 30 C, you really feel that.

 

Welcome to my world!

[coheir]

50 minutes ago, SimonB said:

No, that's quite a few years ago now.

Oh I have been there too.

[HisFirst]

1 hour ago, missmuffet said:

The more extra padding( I won't say fat ) the less they can tolerate the heat. But they can tolerate the cold better.

Oh we never say that word....fat...EVER!!

[coheir]

50 minutes ago, SimonB said:

No, that's quite a few years ago now.

Oh I have been there too.

[SimonB]

7 minutes ago, coheir said:

Oh I have been there too.

I was living there when Showa became Heisei but I always point out that I had nothing to do with it

[Willa]

2 hours ago, missmuffet said:

We will be ok. God is with us that is what is most important.

When we lived in Walowa Co. OR we were able to keep one room and the bathroom at 60 but it was 45 in the bedroom and things froze in the anteroom.  I spent a lot of time under an electric blanket.  It was the most miserable 6 months of snow I ever endured.  So my heart does go out to you miss peeps.

 We did get 18 inches of snow here in Washington in 1980 if I remember right.  That was the time I left our son off in front of the school and went on to college.  But the school busses couldn't make it up his school's drive way so the district canceled school after I had gone.  For years he reminded me what a cruel mother I was to leave him there, and it was only after he was an adult that I learned that on the way home he had plowed through fields and jumped into every possible snow drift!  All I can say is that grandkids are pay back.

[HAZARD]

2 hours ago, SimonB said:

I remember Feb was the month we got temps well over 40 C.

What is really tough though is when the overnight min was 30 C, you really feel that.

I think we humans are getting soft nowadays. I can hardly imagine now travelling in a car in 45C with no airconditioning, and by the way the car had been sitting in the sun a few hours so it was probably 50+ inside

Hi Simon, Getting soft? we sure are. I remember when I was shot firing in my thirties, in an open cut mine many years ago. I had to load the primer + detonators then load the nitro prill and dieseline mix into the shot holes, and then stem the holes with a shovel, all one to two hundred of them, depending on the shot size, then wire up the entire shot, usually took all day from 6am. to 6 pm, in 40 deg. heat, I felt the heat but never complained once. Today they use air-conditioned bobcat skid steer loaders to do that job. When the air con breaks down, they stop work?? We would have been sacked!

[SimonB]

10 hours ago, HAZARD said:

Hi Simon, Getting soft? we sure are. I remember when I was shot firing in my thirties, in an open cut mine many years ago. I had to load the primer + detonators then load the nitro prill and dieseline mix into the shot holes, and then stem the holes with a shovel, all one to two hundred of them, depending on the shot size, then wire up the entire shot, usually took all day from 6am. to 6 pm, in 40 deg. heat, I felt the heat but never complained once. Today they use air-conditioned bobcat skid steer loaders to do that job. When the air con breaks down, they stop work?? We would have been sacked!

Yeah I saw all the new stuff nowadays. Remote control mining trucks driven from the comfort of an air conditioned office far away from the dust and heat. Actually pretty impressive technologically. Like something out of one of my dreams.

[kwikphilly]

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Hey Kwick, i bet you most here don't know who you refer to when you mention "snowbirds in the pool", except maybe i am misjudging your statement.                                           warrior

Ah yes,you are probably right,lol   Well,I live in South Florida,USA   Florida is a tropical state near the equator & is called "the Sunshine State".....the weather is consistently warm(hot) year round,known for its beaches & blue skies,fishing,water sports.....it attracts tourists worldwide and because it never gets cold the folks that live in the Northeastern States of America do as the "birds" do & head South f or winter,they usually start to migrate just before or with the first "snowfall" up north...& we call these seasonal visitors "snow birds",lol   

 We did get that cold front in &  last night it dropped to 48 degrees,it is 9am and already the temp is 70 degrees F,it may go to 75 today ?It may or may not be a "cold" couple of nights & thats about as much "winter "as we get............so for the "snow birds" that have come down ,its warm........considering many of them came from 11 & 12 degrees ,Virginia Beach is having a blizzard as we speak

[other one]

19 minutes ago, kwikphilly said:

Ah yes,you are probably right,lol   Well,I live in South Florida,USA   Florida is a tropical state near the equator & is called "the Sunshine State".....the weather is consistently warm(hot) year round,known for its beaches & blue skies,fishing,water sports.....it attracts tourists worldwide and because it never gets cold the folks that live in the Northeastern States of America do as the "birds" do & head South f or winter,they usually start to migrate just before or with the first "snowfall" up north...& we call these seasonal visitors "snow birds",lol   

 We did get that cold front in &  last night it dropped to 48 degrees,it is 9am and already the temp is 70 degrees F,it may go to 75 today ?It may or may not be a "cold" couple of nights & thats about as much "winter "as we get............so for the "snow birds" that have come down ,its warm........considering many of them came from 11 & 12 degrees ,Virginia Beach is having a blizzard as we speak

I'm just waiting till someone declares that a racist phrase....