On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:01:38 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:01:50 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 11/12/14 10:43 AM, Tim wrote:
It's strange to think that even here the summers seem so short and the winters so long...



The coldest day of my life was a bright, sunny January day in 1970 in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. The wind coming off the lake was just brutal.
Don't know what the temp was.

Second coldest, at least in feeling cold, was a February day in 1990,
getting off the plane in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I was told it was 20
below zero, Fahrenheit, and that if you peed outdoors, it would freeze
before it hit the ground.


I have been lots of places where it was colder, skiing, hunting and on
ship in the North Atlantic but the coldest I ever felt was on an ell
platform in Chicago, just about any day in the winter.
Taking a warm coat to Chicago is just a trick. It fools you into
thinking you can actually go outside.
You are supposed to stand under the IR heaters outside the hotel, dive
into a Checker and run inside when you get where you are going

Years ago I flew into Chicago one January. Rental was running when I picked it up at the airport, so I drove to the hotel and parked it. Next morning I went out to start it, and it barely clicked. Was -30, and with windchill close to -60! Three days later the car finally cranked, it got up to 5 degrees and it actually felt pretty good outside.

You nawthuners can have it.