Author Topic: It's so cold ...... (Read 13455 times)

Ncdan · « **Reply #30 on:** December 29, 2017, 03:44:43 PM »

Quote from: lucian on December 29, 2017, 09:00:07 AM

- 4 F here this morning, piece of cake. Went for a nice ride up to the new Hampshire mountains early this AM . Then I woke up

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How deep do you folks have to bury water lines to keep them from freezing?

lucian · « **Reply #31 on:** December 29, 2017, 03:51:42 PM »

4 feet on average but if no snow cover some years that's not deep enough. On new installations we always cover them with 2 inch rigid foam insulation for added protection.

Matteo · « **Reply #32 on:** December 29, 2017, 03:57:58 PM »

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Tom H · « **Reply #33 on:** December 29, 2017, 11:45:39 PM »

Being from So. Ca., I don't know how anyone can function in the very low temps I'm reading here. -20F, -30F. Crimeny!!!

I thought it was cold when I was in about +20 at night in Oregon for Christmas one year. Durring the day in the sun I could wear a T shirt, at night was a thermal top, flannel and a parka.

Many moons ago in Big Bear Ca. I was ridding at night in about +25-30F, but that put me at about +10F with the wind. Full thermals, T shirt, Flannel, leather insulated jacket, chaps, scarf to seal my neck and a insulated cap with the fold down ear covers and I was still COLD!!!

Stay warm!!!
Tom

Arizona Wayne · « **Reply #34 on:** December 30, 2017, 12:28:04 AM »

Quote from: hidn45 on December 29, 2017, 11:26:08 AM

Let the dog out this morning, & as I stepped out behind him he was back in the house before I could turn & shut the door! And he LOVES it outside, no matter what the weather....

We have a Pomeranian like a lot of Alaskan's do. She LOVE's the cold she has so much fur! Suddenly she has a lot more energy.

Yesterday they said it was going to be -48 in Yellowknife. No way I could find a reason to live there.

rodekyll · « **Reply #35 on:** December 30, 2017, 01:15:44 AM »

Yes, Alaskans don't screw around raising useless "pets", and Pomeranians and other teacup dogs are very popular with them because they're handy defense weapons in the bush, and make fine teams for tiny little dogsleds. Just check out any Alaska reality show -- they herd them like cats and swap them like trading cards.

Muff doggies are like meat twinkies to almost everything in Alaska that's bigger than them, so you need lots of spares. As your first line of defense while hiking, you toss one or two at the bear or lynx or whatever's got you up that tree, and make your escape while it's distracted with the snack. You can see how that would work out to several dozen over the course of a year.

They're also valuable because without foo-foo dogs there are a *lot* of Alaska jokes that just don't work.

Arizona Wayne · « **Reply #36 on:** December 30, 2017, 01:34:41 AM »

It appears on TV the humans have the Poms for house pets and the Huskies for sled dogs. The Alaskan vets take care of all sizes of dogs just like anywhere else.

rodekyll · « **Reply #37 on:** December 30, 2017, 03:33:09 AM »

Quote from: Arizona Wayne on December 30, 2017, 01:34:41 AM

It appears on TV the humans have the Poms for house pets and the Huskies for sled dogs. The Alaskan vets take care of all sizes of dogs just like anywhere else.

I remember you telling me once that I'd learn to appreciate how real Alaskans live if I would just take the time to watch some of the reality TV shows about us. If I'd watched that one, I'd have learned that veterinarians fix dogs.

. . . . and on topic, it used to get so cold in Alaska that we'd huddle around the open fridge for warmth. When we had conversations it was awkward, on account of you'd have to stop every sentence, collect the words and thaw them on the griddle to hear what was being said. Sometimes the words got jumbled on the griddle and bedlam ensued. And during spring thaw lost segments of conversations would mutter out of the snowbanks like steam. That's how we got "Word Salad Sarah". She'd talk all winter and we'd have to listen as her random words randomly thawed for the rest of the year. You won't learn THAT on reality TV!

rider33 · « **Reply #38 on:** December 30, 2017, 07:36:48 AM »

the interesting bit about reading a board such as this is there is always someone up north experiencing -20F or below while someone in OZ or some such is in high summer & bitching about the heat, 'makes you realize just how small (or large, depending on you POV) the world really is.
My POV is that it it is -12F right now with a fair wind bring the wind chill down to about -28F. That's a bummer as the center stand for my V7iii just came in and my garage is unheated. I make a point of not picking up wrenches when they stick to your hand & funny things can happen to metal when it's that cold. I guess it will have to wait until it gets to be a toasty 20F or something....

Yukonica · « **Reply #39 on:** December 30, 2017, 06:38:11 PM »

I'd like to rename this thread "it's too cold ..."

Ncdan · « **Reply #40 on:** December 30, 2017, 07:12:41 PM »

Quote from: hidn45 on December 29, 2017, 11:26:08 AM

Let the dog out this morning, & as I stepped out behind him he was back in the house before I could turn & shut the door! And he LOVES it outside, no matter what the weather....

Good thing you didn’t find his stuff to a fire hydrant or tree 😂

Jim Rich · « **Reply #41 on:** December 31, 2017, 12:07:48 AM »

Sorry to hear about the extreme cold some of you are dealing with. Cooking gumbo to keep warm and nourished here in Houston while waiting for better weather.

LowRyter · « **Reply #42 on:** December 31, 2017, 01:19:07 AM »

Johnny: Man, is it cold out there today.

Ed: How cold is it?

Johnny: Well, on my way in this afternoon, I couldn't help but notice an exhibitionist on the corner, and it's so cold, he was flashing a drawing of himself.

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It's so cold that even lawyers are putting their hands down their own pockets.

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It's so cold...
My cup of coffee turned into a hot slushy!!

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DAMMAG · « **Reply #43 on:** December 31, 2017, 03:26:17 AM »

Here in Australia I rode my LM3 over to a mates house and parked it in his driveway while I waited for him to get his Ducati Bevel out. (the Ducati was returned to the shed after a few K's after it's ignition went south and he then got his Beemer out. But that is another story)

This was 0830 in the morning.

When I hopped back on my bike the temp gauge on the trailbike speedo I use said 50 deg C.

Luckily it's only 29 deg C in the house now at 730pm.

Murray · « **Reply #44 on:** December 31, 2017, 05:35:46 AM »

31 ish celcius here today, I iz a little disappointed no one has trotted out, It's so cold it would freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

drums4money · « **Reply #45 on:** January 01, 2018, 10:56:53 AM »

Quote from: lucian on December 29, 2017, 09:00:07 AM

- 4 F here this morning, piece of cake. Went for a nice ride up to the new Hampshire mountains early this AM . Then I woke up

-4 here in the Poconos this morning. Our little coal stove is struggling to keep up. It'll run you out of the house from the 40's down to the mid-20's. Gonna have to look for supplemental heat. . .

JohninVT · « **Reply #46 on:** January 01, 2018, 11:29:19 AM »

I was up in Island Pond this weekend snowmobiling. A bunch of the guys wanted to go for a midnight ride to celebrate the New Year. It was -28. I said no thank you and had a drink by the fire instead.

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #47 on:** January 01, 2018, 11:53:53 AM »

I woke up to pee last night and it was cold in the house. I turned on the TV in the bedroom and the WX channel.
It said 18 below zero in my town and as I watched it wen to 19 below. I got up to check my thermostat and found it had frozen the balls out of the bearings in it. It took about an hour of screwing around with it but I got it to work again. Today at noon we are experiencing a heat wave and it is up to 8 below zero.
This is the coldest I have been since I was in the antarctic in 1987.

Yukonica · « **Reply #48 on:** January 01, 2018, 12:08:55 PM »

Quote from: drums4money on January 01, 2018, 10:56:53 AM

.... Gonna have to look for supplemental heat. . .

Toyo oil heaters, reasonably efficient, easy to install, extremely reliable, requires electricity, wall vented.
https://toyoheat.com/products/
I have yet to be let down by one. Have the house and the shop and the studio above the shop all on different sizes...

bobrebos · « **Reply #49 on:** January 01, 2018, 01:01:05 PM »

,,,,the birds are freezing in mid air!

yogidozer · « **Reply #50 on:** January 01, 2018, 01:11:12 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo34VhfcetU

webmost · « **Reply #51 on:** January 02, 2018, 03:48:45 PM »

A cigar customer from New England called me up this morning to say his box of Smithdale Shades arrived with split wrappers. I reckoned they must have loaded them up in the mail truck, then let them set parked outside over the holiday. Those shade wrappers are very thin and delicate. I asked him how cold did it get up his way. He told me he went ice fishing yesterday and he had to light a fire to thaw out his beer enough so he could drink it. I told him that must be an ice fishing joke. He insisted it was no joke.

giusto · « **Reply #52 on:** January 02, 2018, 05:33:10 PM »

Brass Monkey Cold !!!

Chuck in Indiana · « **Reply #53 on:** January 02, 2018, 06:06:07 PM »

Got a text this morning saying it was 20 below at our place in Indiana. (!) We leave SoCal headed that way in the morning. I've gotta say I'm not looking forward to it.

rodekyll · « **Reply #54 on:** January 02, 2018, 06:18:55 PM »

After taunting us all like you've been doing, Chuck, karma is going to dump the cold on you like gateraid on a winning coach.

Chuck in Indiana · « **Reply #55 on:** January 02, 2018, 06:39:28 PM »

Quote from: rodekyll on January 02, 2018, 06:18:55 PM

After taunting us all like you've been doing, Chuck, karma is going to dump the cold on you like gateraid on a winning coach.

It was in the 40s at home 3 weeks ago, and Dorcia was giving me a bad time for packing my Winter coat to take to California. Knowing me.. I'll probably let her wear it.
A few years ago, we came home to below zero and blowing snow. A teeny bopper SoCal girl was in the jetway with us complaining that she had never been so cold in her life.. I said, "Honey, you are technically still in the building. Wait until you go outside.."
I *would* have liked to see that..

steven c · « **Reply #56 on:** January 02, 2018, 06:45:47 PM »

It was so cold this morning I saw a chicken walking with a capon!

lucian · « **Reply #57 on:** January 03, 2018, 07:07:14 AM »

Jessie's morning walk, 6:30 AM, Much warmer today , +6 degrees Woo who!

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #58 on:** January 03, 2018, 07:58:11 AM »

This morning at the crap of dawn it was up to 15 degrees above zero.

twowings · « **Reply #59 on:** January 03, 2018, 10:27:22 AM »

It's been so cold here that the Honda Civics in my neighborhood have stopped overheating...

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