Come to Minnesota we get to -20 at least once a year. It sucks
Yep, every year, usually sometime Around the third week of January. Always fun to go outside and enjoy the brisk mornings.
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Come to Minnesota we get to -20 at least once a year. It sucks
Go to fort drum, soldiers from Alaska go there for cold-weather training. -46 my first winter there in 2010
I had an '80 Rabbit diesel also. Biggest POS vehicle I ever owned. I had the fuel gel up on me once.I had a diesel Rabbit that wouldn't start in the middle of Summer.
But that was more of a glow plug issue.
-50F, no wind, Ambler, Alaska. It's dangerously cold, even with all the right gear. If you throw a hot cup of water into the air, you can hear it freeze as it turns to a steam looking frozen frost. If you pee on an ocean cargo container, you make a weird looking sort of inverted icicle...AND you can evacuate your bladder in record time!! Put a 55 gallon barrel on the fire with about a gallon of water in it. Once you see a heavy flow of steam, close the bung and kick it off the fire. It will crush itself like a beer can unless a break in the metal happens. Water expands 1700 times as it turns to steam, and vice-versa. Epstein didn't hang himself but Weinstein should consider it.
One of the funniest things I can remember about cold is this. My uncle from Virginia was courting my aunt at the time. The men of the family took him skiing as we had a ski house up along the Canadian border. It was really cold with about 12' of snow on the ground. My uncle was saying yep it gets pretty cold at home many times near zero in January. Well he went out to start the car and looked at the thermometer and instead of reading a temp the mercury was just a ball in the bottom I think it was -30 at the bottom and the ball was below that. He went and sucked it up but he wasn't happy about it at the time. He had just returned from VN about a week before so the change was well above just a couple hundred miles north like for us.Not as cold as it was here the other day.View attachment 7213920
I’ve worked up in that part of ny in the winter before and it sucks!Go to fort drum, soldiers from Alaska go there for cold-weather training. -46 my first winter there in 2010
Haha freezers are good times. We install fire protection system in them and you can only last about 30 min. The man lifts also need to be swapped out about 30 min because the hydraulic systems start to slow down.In my youth I worked in commercial refer repair. Took care of ice cream warehouse -30. Could do nothing with gloves on so had to take them off. I think ten minutes was my limit before my hands ached so bad I could not use them. Then stepping out into 80-90 degree temps dressed like a eskimo, never felt so good. Recovery was like 20-30 minutes and then do it again.
So -40 is scary to me.
Worked at Killington when the high of the day was -42. Snowmakers saw -53. We had to sit at the top of the lift of the Killington base chair to send people into the lodge due to the start of frostbite. Had Women with no hat on and worse men with earrings that had already made black marks around the damm things. It was the first full week of December. I had 2 misfires and a hang fire using the #11 caps. That was when I earned about condensation and muzzleloaders.
You dehydrate so fast when it's that cold and every breathe not through a gaitor or mask hurts like hell
My last day working there was in 91-92 season. I don't remember that ever being the case. I do remember closing areas due to not enough people to cover the area the lifts served. I was there when the NE passage was still open. They closed that area due to robberies putting the ticket window people at serious risk. It was robbed 4 or 5 times in my tenure there.I've been skiing at Killington when it was -40 then with wind 20 below that. New Years day 1999 I think. No ski patrol anymore was go at your own risk.
I lived in Vermont most of my life, and yup winters still suck lol.. This year has been on and off warm then cold. Get more ice then snow lately.I've been skiing at Killington when it was -40 then with wind 20 below that. New Years day 1999 I think. No ski patrol anymore was go at your own risk. You could spit at concrete and it would shatter when it hit.
My folks still do and they enjoy it. I think dad loves telling me how cold it it is and how long it took to get into his shop that day. I'm fine living in 10-20 degree warmer weather.I lived in Vermont most of my life, and yup winters still suck lol.. This year has been on and off warm then cold. Get more ice then snow lately.
Yup, I can remover leaving equipment running at night up in derby on the power lines. Because Of fear they wouldn’t start in morning..My folks still do and they enjoy it. I think dad loves telling me how cold it it is and how long it took to get into his shop that day. I'm fine living in 10-20 degree warmer weather.
Regail us please . Curious at the struggles and cultural differences .
I've been eyeballing job prospects in MT and WY, one of them in Cut Bank, MT. Claims to be the coldest spot in the United States. Can anyone corroborate? Coldest I've experienced was Utah and Austrian winters, though nothing close to -40 F.
January is one of the coldest months out West. Three towns in Minnesota, Colorado and Wyoming have historically claimed the title of "Ice Box of the Nation." But, there can only be one. International Falls, Minn., did legally secure the title in 2008, but the other two towns still unofficially claim it.
Copy. Yeah, that honorific isn't exactly a selling point to me. I don't mind cold, rain or snow. I thrive on the challenge, but that's next level shit.![]()
Why Three Towns Are Fighting To Be The 'Ice Box Of The Nation'
January is one of the coldest months out West. Three towns in Minnesota, Colorado and Wyoming have historically claimed the title of "Ice Box of the Nation." But, there can only be one. International Falls, Minn., did legally secure the title in 2008, but the other two towns still unofficially...www.npr.org
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/578172751/578172752
Considering the system is open right up to the point of securing the bung and kicking it off the campfire....not super.
No. Not the barrel. Anything rubber or plastic, yes.I knew a guy that used to be army stationed in ak. He told me they were cautioned to be careful with their rifles, that the barrel could easily break at very low temps. True?