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You know you've lived in the cold for too long...

gwuMACaddict said:
i agree... i do like it cold for the holidays...
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Yeah! Me too!

By cold, you meant low 60's, right? :D

During the daytime it's been in the high 50's to mid 60's and I am FREEZING. :eek: The night is painfully cold in the 40's. Yes. I am a cold weather wimp. *sniff* I miss my warm summery weather!
 
Two winters ago in Maine, we had a good 3-4 week stretch where the temp never got over 20 F. Low temps were -10 to -15 with the wind chill. I don't mind cold, but when it just stays cold and you feel like you never get warm, that stinks.

I do remember living in San Jose and hearing a convestation about "how cold it is, it feels like winter" while I was sitting in shorts and a t-shirt because it was a sunny day and in the mid 50's! :p
 
sushi said:
Lived in a tent at around minus 20F (without wind chill). Does that count?

It is really hard to poke your head out of your fart sack, er. sleeping bag, to get up.

BTW, starting a helicopter at those temperatures can be challenging.
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Yep, that defintely counts! :eek: :cool:
 
Out here in Southern California we are total weather wimps. Whenever we have a little rain the news stations suddenly go to "Storm Watch" and it makes the headlines. My friends and coworkers who have lived back east always laugh at that, we realy have no idea what bad weather is.

As for Asians using umbrellas in the snow, here they use them on hot sunny days to keep the sun off them.
 
erickkoch said:
Out here in Southern California we are total weather wimps. Whenever we have a little rain the news stations suddenly go to "Storm Watch" and it makes the headlines. My friends and coworkers who have lived back east always laugh at that, we realy have no idea what bad weather is.
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Yeah, I've heard of cities completely shutting down just because there was half an inch of freezing rain and the termperature was <shudder> below zero. I always chuckle to myself at these types of "weather wimps", as you put it. ;)
 
jayb2000 said:
Two winters ago in Maine, we had a good 3-4 week stretch where the temp never got over 20 F. Low temps were -10 to -15 with the wind chill. I don't mind cold, but when it just stays cold and you feel like you never get warm, that stinks.
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The entire northeast was really cold then. I was at school in Boston, and someone had the bright idea of pulling the fire alarm at 1AM one night. 3F, then figure in the 15mph wind...

I do remember living in San Jose and hearing a convestation about "how cold it is, it feels like winter" while I was sitting in shorts and a t-shirt because it was a sunny day and in the mid 50's! :p
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I wore shorts the night before Thanksgiving :D

My legs were cold :(
 
I'd rather it was cold than hot.. I mean, I can always put more clothes on, but there's only so much that can come off before it's a 'crime against nature'.
 
or then there is this persons' way of expressing that thought...

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didn't even hit 20F here today. its piss weather out. like i said before, i could care less about the cold or the dry or dark days. i hate how people drive in snow and freezing rain. :: grumble grumble :: and downtown in a cargo van doing deliveries makes it worse.
 
I'd rather it be cold than hot - if you are cold you can crank up the thermostat or add clothing, but when it's hot and sticky there's no escape...ugh.
 
yeah, you could kick up the thermostat, except when you can't, because (as happened two years ago) the boiler in your dorm has died, the temperature is -5 F (before the windchill, which i guess didn't matter because we were all hunkered down inside) and your crappy dorm is built out of cinderblocks, with as far as I could tell, no insulation.

Last winter though, that was a mild one in upstate NY.
 
tpjunkie said:
yeah, you could kick up the thermostat, except when you can't, because (as happened two years ago) the boiler in your dorm has died, the temperature is -5 F (before the windchill, which i guess didn't matter because we were all hunkered down inside) and your crappy dorm is built out of cinderblocks, with as far as I could tell, no insulation.

Last winter though, that was a mild one in upstate NY.
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Hmmmmm, that building sounds very....Soviet.;)

Did you try starting a fire? :D
 
quigleybc said:
I live in Canada.

And the sun's been shining, and I think I may even go for a bike ride today...

We've had one day of lite snow so far, it's really quite nice..

Oh, did I forget to mention I live in Vancouver..:)
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Well you live in Vancouver, that doesn't count :p

You're lucky though, 41cm of snow last night here in Montreal. Cars outside my window are literally under snow from a combination of the snowplows going by, and the wind. It's pretty funny, about an hour ago I witnessed someone trying to dig their way to their car, and about half an hour ago I witnessed the same person giving up.
 
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