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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bkg on November 20, 2009, 05:56:16 PM
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when traveling in the midwest, it is not wise to leave your warm coat in the trunk of your car two states away. :hammer: :hammer:
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when traveling in the midwest, it is not wise to leave your warm coat in the trunk of your car two states away. :hammer: :hammer:
:lmao:
sorry....having grown up out there....at this time of year...never ever leave the winter coat at home.....but you know that now, huh? :tongue:
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I discovered once that even though when you get into the car in Florida when it's 75 degrees and Atlanta IS in the south...early November means winter and I knew I'd made a baaaaad mistake leaving my coat at home when I saw the snow falling when I pulled up to the hotel.
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You think your cold now? Try -114 wind chill in Alaska while driving from Anchorage to Fairbanks at 50 MPH in a Humvee that has a heater only rated for the lower 48 states.
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This is pretty minor compared with the experiences of most, but the year I was a senior in college, a friend and I wanted to go somewhere for spring break. He was an Air Force brat, his parents and family in Japan at the time, and I was an orphan, and so really we had nowhere to go.
Everybody else was going home or going down south.
We wanted to go somewhere else, but couldn't decide.
That is, until the Thursday night before spring break started, and he mentioned at supper that he had read that Anaconda, Montana, had the world's tallest smokestack.
To which I said, hey, let's go there.
We took his 1968 Pontiac two-door convertibile GTO.
It was late March.
The weather was pleasant, all the way through Nebraska, Wyoming, and the eastern half of Montana; typical spring-time weather. We both had taken along clothes suitable for the climes of southeastern Nebraska, and no more than that.
Nearing the continental divide, it abruptly became a different sort of weather; blizzards and winds and cold temperatures, and one had to use tire-chains to get over the various passes. And once over the other side, it didn't get any better.
But we had a good time nonetheless.
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The world's tallest smokestack? You sure there wasn't a strip club or something interesting nearby. :lmao:
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The world's tallest smokestack? You sure there wasn't a strip club or something interesting nearby. :lmao:
Claire Boothe Luce . . . :fuelfire: ;)
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The world's tallest smokestack? You sure there wasn't a strip club or something interesting nearby. :lmao:
Nope, no other reason.
Hey, we were college kids.
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when traveling in the midwest, it is not wise to leave your warm coat in the trunk of your car two states away. :hammer: :hammer:
Wuss. I live in Minne-so-cold and I could walk outside with a t-shirt on right now and not be fazed. :-)
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This is pretty minor compared with the experiences of most, but the year I was a senior in college, a friend and I wanted to go somewhere for spring break. He was an Air Force brat, his parents and family in Japan at the time, and I was an orphan, and so really we had nowhere to go.
Everybody else was going home or going down south.
We wanted to go somewhere else, but couldn't decide.
That is, until the Thursday night before spring break started, and he mentioned at supper that he had read that Anaconda, Montana, had the world's tallest smokestack.
To which I said, hey, let's go there.
We took his 1968 Pontiac two-door convertibile GTO.
It was late March.
The weather was pleasant, all the way through Nebraska, Wyoming, and the eastern half of Montana; typical spring-time weather. We both had taken along clothes suitable for the climes of southeastern Nebraska, and no more than that.
Nearing the continental divide, it abruptly became a different sort of weather; blizzards and winds and cold temperatures, and one had to use tire-chains to get over the various passes. And once over the other side, it didn't get any better.
But we had a good time nonetheless.
College boyfriend was from Skaneateles NY up near Syracuse. First time I went home with him to meet his parents was Mother's Day weekend. Second week of May....supposed to be warming up by that time.
Not in that part of the country!!!
I was from northern Illinois....we were wearing spring clothes. So I took spring clothes to visit.
I looked spring-y....but there was still snow on the ground!! :o
I spent 5 days in the Student Health Center when I got back to school I was so sick....
Next time I went was a year later in June....I had nice and warm clothes with me... :-)
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Wuss. I live in Minne-so-cold and I could walk outside with a t-shirt on right now and not be fazed. :-)
I'll admit to being a wuss when it comes to the cold. I hate the cold. HATE the cold.
I went to elemntary/jr high with a guy who never wore a jacket. Only a t-shirt all winter long. Sitting at the bus stop freezing my a$$ off while he just stood there in a t-shirt. Amazing.
In KC - have my winter coat with me. :)
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My other half HATES the cold.....
He went to Mass yesterday morning, came home and puts on 2 sweatshirts on over a turtleneck and undershirt and is under a quilt watching ESPN.
I'm getting ready to go out and run a bunch of errands.
I stupidly ask him how cold it was out and going to be....he told me it may get up to mid 50's for 5 minutes during the day (the sun was actually out)
I put on a ribbed turtleneck sweater, a velour hoodie, jeans, boot socks...this was at 10:30.
At 1:30 it was 63!!!
I think later the car temp thing said it was 68...... :o
There were people out in shorts and t-shirts......
No...not me....I'm sweating ...and not that "glow" that Southern women get....sweating!! :banghead:
I should know better than to ask him anything about the temperature outside after September 1. :thatsright: