COOLING OFF OUTSIDE

[voyageur1688]

  The temp was about -19 below 0 today when I got up. Keeps cooling off like this and before long I will hafta get out my winter gear. Already got out my wool socks and winter coat but havent used the coat yet. Now if I can just remember where I packed my long handles last spring.
Voy

[Micanopy]

Yer a tougher man than I am, its fourty here right now and I'm wearin a heavy flannel shirt, heavy cavas pants, wool sox and insulated boots. I'm a tropical bird by nature but sure do love the cold, sometime!

[Tim Burns]

but sure do love the cold, sometime! The Cold would be nice for the week of Gun season for deer in Ohio, maybe a little snow and cold during Christmas week, the rest of the time - keep it at the North Pole...

[kybackwoodsman]

im cold weather person, but do enjoy summers.. just hard to catfish in frezzing weather.. but cold weather means hunting and trapping time is here again, and i do love chasing them old ringtails around and out foxing the varmits the best i can.

[Micanopy]

but sure do love the cold, sometime! The Cold would be nice for the week of Gun season for deer in Ohio, maybe a little snow and cold during Christmas week, the rest of the time - keep it at the North Pole...

Preety much my take on it...........

[redhawk]

It was 18 this morning when I went out and to think I thought that was a bit cool. Voy it sounds like a heat wave to you.  You have made me feel alittle warmer! With temps like them you better be finding those long handles and throw another log on the fire!

[William]

  The temp was about -19 below 0 today when I got up. Keeps cooling off like this and before long I will hafta get out my winter gear. Already got out my wool socks and winter coat but havent used the coat yet. Now if I can just remember where I packed my long handles last spring.
Voy

You're only just now getting out your winter gear?!?!  Yikes and yikes again!

[voyageur1688]

  The temps here aint bad so far this year. Years back we had more than 60 below and I still went out ice fishing. Took forever for my old truck to warm up enough to be able to shift it but it eventually did. Some guys about 20 miles from me were video taped pounding nails in boards with frozen bananas and if you cracked an egg and dropped it to the sidewalk it was frozen before it hit. Now that was COLD but if ya were properly dressed it was bearable. Nice thing is the fish we caught when we went out that time were flash frozen right away so they were as good as fresh caught when we cooked em.
Voy

[voyageur1688]

  Just checked on youtube. Go check out Minnesota cold. Some wild video footage in that series--including the banana vs nail.
as breaking a frozen t shirt.
Voy

[William]

  Just checked on youtube. Go check out Minnesota cold. Some wild video footage in that series--including the banana vs nail.
as breaking a frozen t shirt.
Voy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAAQHbCvXhI&feature=fvw

This kind of cold is nuts!

[Red Badger]

I lived up there for several years and would not have left if it were not for the job I had at the time making me relocate...

I always enjoyed winter up there and somewhere have a picture of me on my motorcycle riding between two 10' high snowbanks to go to work one day when the truck would not start... I believe it was only -20 that morning...

[bigfoot]

Brrrr! Let's just say I'm glad I live in a state where it's not so cold cause I'm a warm-weather kinda guy

[voyageur1688]

  Cold is a matter of mind over matter. If ya think its cold --- you will be cold.  As for riding motorcycles in the winter--seen it many times. My older brother had an old one he tied rope through the rear wheel and used it all winter. Used to see a few up here who did it that way and put a ski on the front tire so they could steer it better. But that was years ago before it was easy to find cheap snowmobiles-- and now they arent cheap agin so time will say if bikes make a comeback again or not for winter use.
   Still love to watch the Minnesota cold series on youtube now that I found it. Funny watching what people up here will do for entertainment. Lots to do here if ya have a creative mind.
Voy

[NAULTRICK1]

The coldest I've ever experienced, spent 5yrs working rigs in the Arctic-77below F mean temp. w/ wind chill at 40mph winds -128 Fahrenheit, had to shut the rig down for a week, metal just becomes too brittle at them temps. Northern tip of Ellesmere Island

[voyageur1688]

 Yup. -77  Now THATS COLD.
  Even here when we hit 60 below they shut down most equipment use but left them run so they wouldnt become damaged upon restart of use. We did have some windy days when we hit -60 but I cant remember what the speeds were--just that it did make it even colder and was I think somethin like 100-120 below with the windchill-- but at least it was a dry cold. Felt bad for people who had their fuel tanks outside and had some of them gel on them. Also felt bad for the guys who had to deliver the fuel when some people ran out as their furnaces were running steady all day every day for 2 weeks.
Voy