Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board Brrrr...its cold

I think Frio is out and about tonight.... its -37C here right now.

ouch!

it's brisk-to-chilly here, with light flurries (no accumulation), and I thought it was cold this morning!

you have my sympathies.

Its SUMMER here and Im f'ing freezing. damn Climate change!

But Deddy, It's Northern Alberta. Its a 'dry cold'

It's got to be cold if a dead man is complaining about the chill.

Admittedly, it's nothing compared with what Deddy has to put up with up in Alberta, but it's actually been pretty nippy in Texas. It's gone below freezing several nights in the last week in Houston. Usually, we'll get a day or two of cold weather, then it warms up till the next cold front comes through, but this year, so far, there hasn't been much chance to warm up.

Well, maybe we'll have snow on Christmas Eve as we did two years ago.

Surprisingly, it's not all that cold here in Scotland.
Unsurprisingly it has rained non stop for the last two weeks.
The rain is actually off at the moment but it looks ready to start again soon.

Yeah, you're right wwc - I spent the weekend stuck on an oilrig in the middle of the North Sea, and although there were 60 knot gusts of wind and driving rain, there has been very little sign of frost and absolutely no snow.

We don't normally get quite as much rain on the east coast as you do on your side though.

I know its cold when I have to spend that extra 45 seconds scraping my car windows before I drive off in the morning. I also am aware that I should let my car warm up and stuff, but bah!, I'm still young enough to not pay attention to such rigamorole.

Where deddy is they don't ever turn their cars off. They just leave 'em running, even to gas up which is kinda a big no-no down here.

Especially anything running on diesel. Diesel turns into a pudding like substance at that temperature.

But its a dry cold. Why Deddy, -37 should feel just like 0 in Newfoundland because of the moist sea air out there.

Bah!!! Dry cold indeed!!!

Though it has warmed up here somewhat. Yesterday was a balmy -13C....haven't been out yet today.

and now its fricking hot! gah!

ah, stop yer braggin. I gotta walk to campus a mile each way in the cold.

It builds character.

I'm not sure what kind of character, but you should get some experience points out of the deal.

45 seconds? :rolleyes: It took me fifteen minutes to get half the ice off my car today. Now my wrist hurts. I ended up borrowing my mother's to keep from being late for an appointment.

Hey, don't blame me! I've been good this winter. Honest. Maybe your perpetrator is someone a bit more... villanous these days.

Well, it's raining here...AGAIN!!!
There are floods everywhere.

It's still not very cold though. I suppose all the clouds must help retain the heat, or something.

Hey Numf! Good to hear from you mate.
Sorry to hear about the rotten weekend. Still, as the saying goes - "Just think of the money."

That's how I get through it

damm it I thought this thread was going to be about how great I am.

Bah

one of these days i will snap and be the cause of a very forgetable 90's crossover event

Hi wwc - Sorry to hear about the flooding over at that side - my mate comes from Clydebank originally and he's had to say to his mum 'tell me when it's NOT raining!' Wet seems to be the natural state of things on the west coast. But flooding's never good.
My daughter was complaining about the rain a couple of months back, so I had to explain to her that if we didn't have as much rain water then we couldn't sell it to the English!



As for the offshore - 30 hours overtime + 3 days offshore bonus = a lot of thinking about the money!
It's part of the job, so you get used to it. I'm lucky in that I only have to do it 3 or 4 times a year. I don't think I could manage the 2 or 3 week stints that the regulars do.

23 F here this morning -- too cold for us Blackberry junkies to use the tiny keyboards. I predict the US government will come to halt unless it warms up a bit.

NONSENSE!!!

The Blackberry was invented in Waterloo Ontario and they have 16 F with gusty winds. DOn't make us send Basillie down there for a test. Fortunately for Blackberry addicts in the city of its invention they will be out of the snow squall warning area. Areas to the west and north of greater Toronto are reporting accumulations of 55 centimeters.

But i'm happy report mainly sunny but crisp here in the city.

I bought one of those hats with the big furry earflaps today. Walking is a bit more pleasant and comfy now.

Just wait until it starts snowing. They'll jack up the threat level as soon as the first flake hits the ground.

It's going down in the teens here tonight, the fahrenheit ones. Still too cold for me though, especially with no snow in sight. It's not even cloudy! I just don't see how you brave souls handle this on a regular basis. I'm all dried out and itchy. I need the humidity and heat back soon.