I know. but they still bundle up way too early. I am from NY, and not even the cold snowy part by the lakes. I am still wearing a T-shirt when the first snow falls. They do have better weather than Floriduh, especially with the really long spring and fall. He'll, even Mobile got ice storms while I was there and the people got all bundled up. This Floriduh shit is just unnatural.
but what's awesome about Florida (especially southern Florida) is all the exotic and invasive species that can survive there! Boa constrictors, peacock bass in the Miami canals, gators all over, and a lot of plant species.
This is how you know you are near a cold area. You know what a block warmer is, and you have seen gasoline freeze. You know you are in a cold area when you have plugs for block warmers at many places. My sedan has had more dirt on it from driving on the highway than most southern trucks used to go driving in the mud. For a long time I did not even know they sold SUVs and pickups without 4wd. Have you ever put chains on your car tires? Have you ever had snot freeze to your face within a minute or two? I have lived for weeks without it getting above zero Fahrenheit during the day. I have only seen negative numbers below thirty a few times so I was not Canada or or Chicago cold.
So people in New York commonly wear T-shirts when the temperature is in the 30s? I see dumb ass High School boys doing that around here, but not yours truly.
When the normal heat wave in January or February hits and the temp during the day gets to the fourties at peak it is awesome. 30's during the day is a warm day, especially when your get north of the Hudson valley and into the mountains. The snow does not melt much during the winter, and 20's (F) can be a warm day. I used to ref in a sweatshirt and light jeans and spend most of the day outside running around. It is also the best time to ski because the wind does not rip through you like on the really cold days. That ski lift can be real cold when you are just sitting there hanging in the breeze, but it is not bad when it is around 30.
I lived near Fairbanks Alaska when I was in the Air Force. So yes I have lived for weeks without it getting above zero. And for quite a while I worked mid shift (midnight to 8:00 AM) in the winter outside loading bombs. Most of the shift it hovered around 15 below zero. But it was a dry cold! And the weather agreed with me - 18 months I was stationed there and not one sick day! I also lived in northern Wisconsin for several years - lakes frozen solid from late November to mid April every year.
Going to be -20 here tonight. Back in the 80s after the volcano erupted we got real cold for a few years.
A long as you are moving at a decent place the cold does not seem as bad. I never really got too sick in the winter. It was when the thaw hit and the molds and pollens shot through the roof that the brochial infections would start.
I couldn't take the cold weather for shit when I got back from Iraq. I would shiver & shake "like a dog shitting peach seeds" in the morning doing PT. Of course being the army you have to be in whichever version of the PT uniform is on the daily schedule. So if the uniform is shorts & t-shirt I was freezing my ass off.
That could be why I was sick constantly in England and Germany. In Germany especially I had bronchitis & pneumonia a lot. Both those places were nowhere near as cold as Wisconsin for example, but were quite damp much of the year.
I have been out in the snow in a t-shirt. I have been out there in a mini skirt, crop top, and no boots. Way back when I was afraid of being caught crossdressed I went to college in the middle of the Appalachian mountains in Oneonta. I would drive the three hours to school crossdressed and one night I messed up on gas. I made it to the base of the mountain my grandparents lived on at around midnight with the temp about 10 blow and a bit windy. I had no coat, and was dressed in a cocktail dress and heels and the town did not open until the next day, and the nearest place to get gas was at least ten miles away. No cell phone to call for a tow, and not willing to deal with whatever human type substance that came off the mountain that late at night I hiked the three miles to the house in dress heals. I also left the road and went over the snowbank to avoid any cars that came because small town rumors would have given me away. It was cold, but I kept moving. I got to the house, lit a fire, and hiked back down in the morning after changing clothes. That was much less coverage than a Tshirt.
Allergies seem to help cause those sorts of issues. I actually have to watch down here in Floriduh around November and pump myself full of the newer allergy OTCs because the mold goes into overdrive once the water stops drying out as fast as it does in the summer. Mold comes anytime but it loves the cooler damp.
Tererun's story reminds me of director Ed Wood (Plan 9 From Outer Space). When he was in the Marines in WWII he sometimes wore women's underwear in combat. One time a Japanese soldier fucked him up real bad by hitting him in the head with the butt of a rifle. He said that didn't scare him as much as realizing when he had to get medically treated the Marines might find out he was a cross dresser! Yeah that shit would get you booted out with a less-than-honorable discharge. Ed Wood was..........unique to say the least!
when I lived in Alaska I used to do fun experiments like that a lot. One thing we did a few times was stand in a super hot shower then throw on shorts and run out of the barracks into the -35 degree night air! Your wet hair would freeze SOLID into a goofy crunchy shape. One time I froze a banana outside in the super cold air and used it to pound nails into lumber, without even breaking the skin of the banana.
And then there's this asshole: 'We’re getting soft’: Kentucky governor says America is weak for closing schools during polar vortex Have a few snowflakes turned Americans into, well, snowflakes? Matt Bevin, the Republican governor of Kentucky, seems to think so. He lamented school closures in his state on Wednesday — when the wind chill could make it feel as frosty as minus-15 — as evidence that the country had lost its mettle. “I mean, what happens to America?” he wondered during an interview on Tuesday with 840 WHAS radio in Louisville, where several school districts said they would close in anticipation of a blast of arctic air from the polar vortex, expected to bring life-threatening temperatures to parts of the Midwest and nearby states. The one-term Republican incumbent, who is up for reelection this year, wasn’t asking about the increased frequency of extreme weather events, which scientists believe is a sign of intensifying climate change. Or about the fate of thousands of homeless Americans whose lives will be at acute risk in the biting cold. His question was about why everyone couldn’t just toughen up. “We’re getting soft,” warned Bevin, who loves posting selfies on social media but has also blocked hundreds of his constituents from interacting with his pages because he doesn’t like what they say about him, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. In case his message wasn’t clear, he repeated: “We’re getting soft.” The arctic weather was already interrupting air travel and preventing planned deliveries by the U.S. Postal Service, which is associated with the motto, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers.” By early Wednesday morning, the bitter conditions had been blamed for at least for a half-dozen deaths. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...-vortex/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3260407dd5dd
these folks think Kentucky governors are soft! http://www.fox9.com/weather/arrowhead-135-race-minnesota
-24 on my drive to work this morning. They’re talking -40ish tonight. But did school close so I didn’t have to take this damn test? Noooooo.
We just had a snow squall on a day that's been 100% sunny cloudless - right up until the snow squall. And now the temp dropped from mid-30s to single digits during said squall.
Threw Atlanta metro area closed schools yesterday, the forecast was for snow and some freezing rain. Just rain is all the area received. But since the ice storm five years ago that shut down the Atlanta area, everyone is playing extra safe..
And every time Atlanta plays it safe since then (but nothing happens) people bitch about it. But the one time they underestimate the winter weather then people will bitch about that. Whatever - I would say playing it safe still saves lives in the long run even if it costs more money.
Elsa arrested for bringing the polar vortex Man, that movie was five years ago. Maybe they should just let it go.
