On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:33:32 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:15:09 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Coldest place on the planet has to be Buffalo or at least feel like the
coldest....

Buffalo is cold but it is almost tropical compared to some other
places in upstate NY. I've seen 41 below on one occasion and there
are regions where it goes below zero every night for weeks at a time.
At 41 below the grease was so thick in my car's transmission that it
wanted to take off and go ahead in neutral.

My old home town gets over 200 inches of snow every year. Last
January they got over 100 inches in 10 days. The city of Oswego, 10
miles north at the northern end of the Oswego Canal, is directly on
Lake Ontario. The winter north westerlies are so strong there that
it piles up ice along the shore 30 to 40 feet high at times. It
looks like the artic when that happens.

Figures you moved to Florida.
We had about 90 inches in Chicago one year - '78-'79 - and it was a
constant battle getting to work. Shoveling all the time.
Hard to imagine all that snow every winter.
But a paradise for those who love winter sports I guess.
When I was kid living near the lake I saw that arctic-like ice piled
up like that once. We somehow had the sense not to venture too
far. It was like being on a glacier, with crevasses and high
overhangs. Must have been an oddity of real cold weather and
easterlies that caused it.

--Vic