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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #50 on: January 06, 2014, 04:00:26 PM »
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #51 on: January 06, 2014, 05:55:57 PM »
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That's one way to stop smoking . . . :whistling: O-)

No. Still didn't stop me. Although, when nobody's home, I do smoke inside.

Work was unbearable. Sent home early because it was totally dead. That's the good thing. The bad thing was going outside for garbage, and recycling. The Travel Store employees were even told not to go outside, and change garbages.

Never been bit by a rattler, but I imagine the wind today was similar. Glad I'm not working second. Temps actually dropping off at night is scary to think about from what it is now (-11)
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #52 on: January 06, 2014, 07:44:42 PM »
Smoking causes glow bull warming.
I used to love the pina colada song.
It was popular when I was at Ft. Eustis Va.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #53 on: January 06, 2014, 07:50:44 PM »
Temp dropped 20 degrees since 6:30 and is falling faster than a DUmmie falling for a government handout. Wind blowing like Obama is making a speech....but it's a cold wind. Just how cold is it....colder than Hillary Clinton and Moochelle Obama combined.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #54 on: January 07, 2014, 08:33:28 AM »
It's two degrees out there.

This sucks.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #55 on: January 07, 2014, 08:57:26 AM »
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It's two degrees out there.

This sucks.

At least it's not 'six degrees of Kevin Bacon . . . .' :whistling: :tongue: :fuelfire:
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #56 on: January 07, 2014, 09:05:10 AM »
-13

-32 with the wind figured in.

Directv has been out for 3 days, the dish is covered in snow, I'd go out and clear it off but I can't reach it.

Water has been out for 2 days but I don't think it's my pipes, I left the tap cracked open just a bit last night with a water bottle strategically situated and this morning it was full.

I was really grateful for that since the furnace runs so much the air gets really dry and my mouth is practically welded shut by morning, being the mouth breather I am and all.

And I have to give a special shout out to the cat, who, without regard to her own safety buries herself in my armpit every chance she gets.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #57 on: January 07, 2014, 09:23:23 AM »
It's currently 24° F in the Salt Lake valley this morning...

[youtube=425,350]www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP4nEfJGX7M[/youtube]

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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #58 on: January 07, 2014, 10:57:10 AM »
Got home from work late yesterday afternoon about 4 (temp -3 with a wind chill of -18) and as the snow had drifted over a chunk of the driveway making it tough to get out, I grabbed the snowblower and went to it. Zero effect with the machine, so I got the shovel out.

An hour later I was done, but I was an f'n popsicle.

Even the manual labor didn't keep me warm, except for my hands. Legs, especially, were redder than debk's hair.  :-)
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #59 on: January 07, 2014, 10:58:39 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on January 07, 2014, 09:23:23 AM
It's currently 24° F in the Salt Lake valley this morning...

[youtube=425,350]www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP4nEfJGX7M[/youtube]

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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #60 on: January 07, 2014, 11:51:31 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on January 07, 2014, 10:58:39 AM
You, my friend, are a Complete Asshole.

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Congratulations.   :rant:    :-)

You may be on to something...

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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #61 on: January 07, 2014, 11:59:16 AM »
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You may be on to something...

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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #62 on: January 07, 2014, 12:20:09 PM »
[youtube=425,350]www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_KDAicF0Yo‎[/youtube]

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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #63 on: January 07, 2014, 01:14:20 PM »
I never thought I'd be so thrilled that the temperature is 13 degrees (real feel of 13 as well!).  I felt like going outside without a coat on.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #64 on: January 07, 2014, 05:21:10 PM »
18 degrees this afternoon. OK, that almost balmy compared to yesterday.
---It's OVER!  :yahoo: :yahoo:

--all that cold air headed east. Not my fault, guys! (but you can have it!)


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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #65 on: January 07, 2014, 05:31:41 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on January 07, 2014, 01:14:20 PM
I never thought I'd be so thrilled that the temperature is 13 degrees (real feel of 13 as well!).  I felt like going outside without a coat on.

After that windchill, that's short weather for us northern state types. Break out the flip flops! :panic: :panic: :-)
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #66 on: January 08, 2014, 04:34:26 AM »
Quote from: jtyangel on January 07, 2014, 05:31:41 PM
After that windchill, that's short weather for us northern state types. Break out the flip flops! :panic: :panic: :-)

When I was in college and the temps got to above freezing, a whole bunch of people would dress in shorts and wear flip flops on their feet (in place of the warmer clothes and winter boots that everyone else was wearing).  Invariably, said shorts-wearers would wind up as new flu cases in the school's Health Center in 3 to 4 days.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #67 on: January 08, 2014, 06:55:10 AM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on January 08, 2014, 04:34:26 AM
When I was in college and the temps got to above freezing, a whole bunch of people would dress in shorts and wear flip flops on their feet (in place of the warmer clothes and winter boots that everyone else was wearing).  Invariably, said shorts-wearers would wind up as new flu cases in the school's Health Center in 3 to 4 days.

It was a joke. I grew up in the south so it has to get above 60 for me to wear anything remotely looking like a sandal  :-)

Although, as I'm sure you know, cold does not cause flu--a virus does...so the people that ended up in the health center were there because a virus; the most I can see cold doing is lowering the defenses to said virus while the body  concentrates instead on conserving heat. I know plenty types up here who don't end up sick in shorts, but certainly I wouldn't wear them. I have adjusted a little since moving here but not to that extent and the longer the winter goes on, the less I tolerate it.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #68 on: January 08, 2014, 07:18:39 AM »
Our meteorologist local TV weatherman's name is Churchston Windchill.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #69 on: January 08, 2014, 07:54:45 AM »
Quote from: jtyangel on January 08, 2014, 06:55:10 AM
It was a joke. I grew up in the south so it has to get above 60 for me to wear anything remotely looking like a sandal  :-)

Although, as I'm sure you know, cold does not cause flu--a virus does...so the people that ended up in the health center were there because a virus; the most I can see cold doing is lowering the defenses to said virus while the body  concentrates instead on conserving heat. I know plenty types up here who don't end up sick in shorts, but certainly I wouldn't wear them. I have adjusted a little since moving here but not to that extent and the longer the winter goes on, the less I tolerate it.

Yup.  Also, said people usually had been drinking copious amounts of alcohol, and were in close contact with people with the damned bug to start with.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #70 on: January 08, 2014, 07:57:51 AM »
Damn that glow bull warming.

It's a scorching 28° F this morning, with precipitation coming down.  Do you know how repressively humid that makes things around here?

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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #71 on: January 08, 2014, 08:06:18 AM »
We're having a heat wave....14F earlier this morning and already up to 18F ....when it hits the sultry high of 36 today, I'm gonna get nekkid. :-)
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #72 on: January 08, 2014, 09:39:14 AM »
Much better.
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #73 on: January 08, 2014, 06:32:29 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on January 08, 2014, 08:06:18 AM
We're having a heat wave....14F earlier this morning and already up to 18F ....when it hits the sultry high of 36 today, I'm gonna get nekkid. :-)
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Re: My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.
« Reply #74 on: January 09, 2014, 02:41:29 PM »
It got down to 15 here (9 with wind chill) while the "polar vortex" was hovering over us. The cold left us Wed afternoon. It is supposed to be 72, 73, & 76 Friday, Sat., & Sun. WHOHOO.
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