It is not funny at all :-)


Jiri

Jiri:

That looks like some real hoar frost! You're lucky it didn't snow! (Sorry, couldn't resist)

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Originally posted by gerry375:
Jiri:

That looks like some real hoar frost! You're lucky it didn't snow! (Sorry, couldn't resist)

Nice Gerry :-) . . . but it is not here, it is somewhere in east Russia, here is only -15C or so . . .

But last weekend, good friend celebrated 40th birthday in montain cottage. Few of us went there on friday to prepare celebration. Weather looked good. So we was driving up to cottage (cars full of food, music systems etc.).
But weather changed during night. When we woke up on Saturday morning, way dissapeared (lot of snow and heavy wind). On Sunday, we were forced to let cars there and computed that about 200 tons of snow must be removed to liberate our cars. Today, I got SMS on my phone from cottage :"Rotary plough is in sight, you can go here for your cars"

Jiri

Jiri -- when I get home tonight I'll post some pictures from my and my wife's visit to Orlando, FL this weekend.

This ppt (open in powerpoint) is showing our weather result in "Krkonose" mountains. (My situation was not so bad :-) )

http://sweb.cz/archive/Spindl_po_ranu.pps

Jiri

Jiri, I've never seen anything like that in my life.

A COLD winter for us here, is when the temperature plummets down into the mid 30s F. (2-4 C).

Once you go below 0 F, we don't know how to handle that. The cold you're showing in that powerpoint slide, I have no ability to grasp or make comparisons against.

The coldest I've seen here was -52F on the thermometer, plus some wind chill for a grand total of -75F or so. I tell ya, when it goes past -50F, everything is crunchy... I'm sure the Alaskans know all about it.

When I lived further north we used to call it "minus fucking cold" once you're below 40 it's a different world. Tires are frozen with a flat spot on the botton, until you drive a short ways. Vehicles won't start, batteries fail, that's when the heater fan starts to act up and won't turn. The condensed water in the gas freezes in your fuel line. Anyne else have anything to add, it would be interesting to give an idea of what really cold is to our warm area friends.

I'd also like to know how to deal with extreme heat, I'm not too well versed in that area-except kitchen heat!!

the chef

Where in CZ? My son and daughter-in-law are living in Pardubice. (missionaries there)

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Originally posted by calgarychef1:
When I lived further north we used to call it "minus fucking cold" once you're below 40 it's a different world. Tires are frozen with a flat spot on the botton, until you drive a short ways. Vehicles won't start, batteries fail, that's when the heater fan starts to act up and won't turn. The condensed water in the gas freezes in your fuel line. Anyne else have anything to add, it would be interesting to give an idea of what really cold is to our warm area friends.

I'd also like to know how to deal with extreme heat, I'm not too well versed in that area-except kitchen heat!!

the chef

And then there are the water pipes.....
Stepchild

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Originally posted by Willie B:
Where in CZ? My son and daughter-in-law are living in Pardubice. (missionaries there)

-55°C is somewhere in east Russia, not here.

Pictures in powerpoint are from the north of the Czech Republic, it is from mountains. Pardubice is on "Labe" river level - it mean really low and weather is there kind.

Jiri

CalgaryChef1

When I was about 7 years old I lived one winter in Waterbury, Vermont. One of my early morning chores was to retrieve the daily delivery of milk (left on the back porch) In those days (1937) milk was delivered in bottles. It was common to come out and find the bottle shattered by the cold - and the milk in almost the frozen shape of the bottle.

I also remember more than once sitting at the edge of woods in subzero temps (with a white sheet over me) waiting in hope that a fox would cross the fields below in upstate NY. ( I had a scoped Win.Mod.70 in 220 Swift) It was commonplace to hear small branches cracking behind me like small caliber pistol shots from the cold. { I was dressed, of course, for it and rested my feet on a folded up old blanket -which delayed the cold seeping through to my boots}

My favorite thing is when the weatherman on TV warns people that 'exposed skin will freeze in 3 to 4 seconds, so be sure to dress properly when going outside'. Ha Ha Ha! I love winter!

My favorite part of winter is visiting relative in Houston Tx and seeing everyone with there thick down winter jackets on while I am quite comfortable in my t-shirt.

Hmn! I don't want to make any wild accusations but I did notice that you are from Minnesota -and you were visiting relatives in Texas (in winter, I presume?) Also I don't want to suggest anything but some years ago I was on the "big island" (Hawaii) and was talking to the owner of a sugar cane place. He happened to mention that he was a Canadian by birth and that each winter his Canadian relatives descended on him like a horde of locusts. I laughed and told him:" Do you blame them?" Of course, I'm sure you LOVE freezing and can't stand warm balmy breezes!

Hehe. Yeah i guess i forgot to mention that I go and visit them over christmas. The choices for christmas are either visit my parents in Canada or visit the grandparents in Houston. For some completely unknown reason I go to the grandparents.

Deep space, my parents went to Vegas one winter. They asked why the pool was drained--the guy at the desk said it's winter you can't swim, it's too cold..Dad says it was 70 degrees. A very nice day by my standards.

the chef

Then there was the day my buddy and I built a raft and paddeled it out to the middle of the lake the only place with ice left. We climbed onto the ice wearing our bathing suits....ran around for awhile. Came back and our raft had fallen apart. So we hopped off the ice and swam back to shore.

ohhh the fun of growing up on the prairies

the chef

Willie B, you Ricebird! You have Czechs living all around you, what do you mean you don't know what CZ is?

When I used to live in the frozen swamps of N.MN. I went to my hunting camp with my brother in early Feb, I think 1996. The new state record low temp had just been set, maybe 30 miles from the camp. My recording thermometer said -55F, inside the camp. The Brandy and whiskey would not pour out of the bottle. The vodka was liquid, but no one would drink it.. When the stove finally warmed the place up a little we did pour some whiskey into a glass with some water in it, from our spring, the whiskey froze the water in the glass, not solid but lots of ics..I know about cold and will never live in that god foreskaen environment again!!

Elkman2:

I'm suspicious about you! I visited your beautiful state several times and was always treated courteously and nicely - but you folks out there do have the reputation for telling us Easterners "tall tales". Come clean! You're kidding! Right? Right?

I remember that winter. I think my nostils froze shut a couple of times waiting for the school bus. Then we find out that the Gov. called off school because it was too cold.
Of course with a day off from school we did the only sensible thing and went skiing.
This was Southern Mn so the temp was a balmy -40 before the wind chill. So I bet it was a bit nippy farther north.

[quote]This ppt (open in powerpoint) is showing our weather result in "Krkonose" mountains. (My situation was not so bad :-) )

I dunno, me thinks this might be a tad colder. This also opens in (powerpoint).
IceIn54tySwitzerland2.pps

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Posted 05 February 2006 00:49
Elkman2:

I'm suspicious about you! Smiler I visited your beautiful state several times and was always treated courteously and nicely - but you folks out there do have the reputation for telling us Easterners "tall tales". Come clean! You're kidding! Right? Right?

Yes, Minnesota is nice for 2-3 weeks a year but then it is bug season, and then it snows.. Wyoming is paradise!! compared to that mosquito Infested swamp!

Elkman 2:

Migod! I never meant to start a second "War between the States"! (I'm a New Yorker who loves the whole country west of the Mississippi -except California) Now I have to rise to the defense of Minnesota, a state I visited several times - oh,yes! only in summer! I also think those MN posters are trying to scare an Eastern tenderfoot with their tales about cold weather. You are kidding, right?

No, the story is true, the booze would not come out of the bottle..I had seen that once before back in the 70's.. It was -45 the night before we went to camp and the whiskey was like maple syrup.. In 96 I tries to pour 5-20 oil from a plastic bottle at -50 and it was solid.. In the 80's we had a 3 week stretch when it did not get above -20 all day. Alaska does not have much on N.MN.

Balmy 15 below this morning.
Can't complain much though. Hasn't been below zero much at all this winter.

odies dad:

I used to boast of sitting out for fox in NY when temps were as much as 15 below. You guys have put me in my place! (It's your reference to a "balmy" 15 below that made me realize that it is true after all. We Easterners just can't tell stories like you guys out there! Regards.

Yeah it has been a mild winter here this year. Cant complain, my car crapped out on me last week so I had to walk to school. So the warm near freezing temps where nice. heck it got up to almost 40 the other day, I almost left my coat at home.