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Offline Mr Mannn

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My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« on: January 05, 2014, 08:54:31 PM »
It will be -13 tomorrow morning in Des Moines, with a windchill of -40! -40?!!
This is something that is supposed to affect the north east, not here.

I won't get to stay home because its "too cold." I have to buck up and get to work!
I remember thinking when I volunteered to move here from Phoenix. I thought, "It will be an adventure."
Earth to Mannn: Cold is NOT an adventure! Frostbite is NOT a freaking adventure!

I'm gonna find me Al Gore and I'm so gonna kick his rich, 1% a$$!   :rant:
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2014, 08:59:09 PM »
 :brrr:

That's all I got.  And be safe!
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2014, 09:23:37 PM »
-40 is too cold to breathe!

It's going to -16F here, which is better than what was predicted and I'm not expecting it to be windy.  I'm a happy woman. 

I'm trying to figure out, though, how to cover my mouth but not have my glasses fog up or, worse, frost over. 
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2014, 09:49:03 PM »
We're going to have the same sort of temps with about 8 inches of snow on the ground. My workplace is  open tomorrow, but I imagine a lot of people will be late or not show up. 

I did my three days this weekend and had to shovel snow to leave work tonight.

I was snowed in at work.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2014, 09:53:19 PM »
With these sorts of temperatures, people, stay home,

It's currently, circa 10 p.m. in the Sandhills, -9 and the wind-chill's -39.

It could drop to -50, wind-chill, during the night.

Screw work, people.  This is not weather that demands one should take significant risks.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2014, 09:56:58 PM »
They've closed the schools here.  The temperature for the next 36-48 hours is going to be in single digits.

I've lived here for 30 years.  It's never been this cold.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2014, 10:00:06 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on January 05, 2014, 08:54:31 PM

You were born and raised in Arizona, Mr Mannn.

I don't believe you have any realistic idea of what a -40 wind-chill is.

And I don't want it to be the last thing you learn in life.

Stay home.  Screw work.

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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2014, 10:26:15 PM »
3 degrees  with a minus 18 windchill with blowing snow. even the dog is wearing her coat when she goes out.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2014, 11:05:50 PM »
That Co2 theory is in the deep freeze. Maybe it actually causes glow bull cooling.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2014, 11:17:57 PM »
My phone says it's -2 right now, so I figure it to be about -20, actually. The wind is blowing pretty good. I'm also hearing from minus 40 to minus 5p tomorrow. I gotta go to work in the AM, unfortunately... :(

Even going out to have a smoke is damn near unbearable right now.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2014, 07:45:34 AM »
Well. My car won't start. I was forced to call in today. I tried.

FREEEEEEZING cold! Wind cuts right through you! I'm drinking hot tea right now to survive.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2014, 07:51:28 AM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on January 06, 2014, 07:45:34 AM
Well. My car won't start. I was forced to call in today. I tried.

FREEEEEEZING cold! Wind cuts right through you! I'm drinking hot tea right now to survive.


God was telling you something by killing your car.

Stay inside; stay home.  Listen to God.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2014, 07:57:27 AM »
Low for Sunday night was 42....wasn't bad a 7 am when I went out this morning....no wind then but it's blowing now and the temperature is dropping. They predict 7 degrees by Tuesday morning and a high in the mid 20's. I'm not sure but I believe that's about the coldest we have had since around 1990 when it hit zero Christmas eve.

Button up folks, stay warm and keep that CO2 coming.

  
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2014, 08:01:08 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on January 05, 2014, 09:56:58 PM
They've closed the schools here.  The temperature for the next 36-48 hours is going to be in single digits.

I've lived here for 30 years.  It's never been this cold.

I was gonna say, we live in the same area and this is as cold as it's been in forever.  Damn global warming.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2014, 08:03:06 AM »
Six degrees. :bday:
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2014, 08:06:15 AM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on January 06, 2014, 07:45:34 AM
Well. My car won't start. I was forced to call in today. I tried.

FREEEEEEZING cold! Wind cuts right through you! I'm drinking hot tea right now to survive.


Sorry about your car, but I'm glad to hear that your not going out in what can only be extremely dangerous conditions. 

This morning the news was showing cars sliding all over the icy  roads. 

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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2014, 08:12:48 AM »
Quote from: Dori on January 06, 2014, 08:06:15 AM
Sorry about your car, but I'm glad to hear that your not going out in what can only be extremely dangerous conditions. 

This morning the news was showing cars sliding all over the icy  roads. 



Ice, smice.

It's the winds that are dangerous.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2014, 08:59:45 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on January 06, 2014, 08:03:06 AM
Six degrees. :bday:

3 by my phone, with a RealFeel© of -16.  GG, Global Warming.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2014, 09:28:37 AM »
Minus 12 here in Des Moines, wind chill of minus 40.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2014, 09:30:52 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on January 06, 2014, 09:28:37 AM
Minus 12 here in Des Moines, wind chill of minus 40.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #20 on: January 06, 2014, 09:32:05 AM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on January 06, 2014, 09:30:52 AM
That's where I am!

Lets not brag about that, Mr. Mannn.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #21 on: January 06, 2014, 10:01:55 AM »
It was -9 with a 5 mph wind (about -22 wind chill) when I left for work this morning a little before 6 AM.

This kind of cold is hell on car batteries. Even in the garage, mine complained -- but she started.

About 9 AM while at work, I went out to the parking lot to start the car. Started fine, but I need to do this a couple times today.

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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #22 on: January 06, 2014, 10:03:45 AM »
My car started up after a couple seconds of cranking.  It took longer to pry open the frozen door.

The guy in my department that works out of Stoughton, WI said it took him two hours to get his truck unfrozen enough to start.  -50 wind chills and all the schools in the state are shut down.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #23 on: January 06, 2014, 10:06:38 AM »
<=== Is basking in a balmy 21° F, with no appreciable wind or wind chill.  All I need is a(nother) piña collada.  :-) :fuelfire:
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #24 on: January 06, 2014, 10:08:44 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on January 06, 2014, 10:06:38 AM
<=== Is basking in a balmy 21° F, with no appreciable wind or wind chill.  All I need is a(nother) piña collada.  :-) :fuelfire:

Oh, shut up.  :bird:




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