Cold Snap

[AlaskaTRX]

You are all pussies until you do a hitch on the North Slope in winter. Typical range is -10F to -30F, and the coldest I've experienced is -72F. So quit whining...

[Greg]

You are all pussies until you do a hitch on the North Slope in winter. Typical range is -10F to -30F, and the coldest I've experienced is -72F. So quit whining...

I believe that merits the 'why would you do that?' kitty.

[AlaskaTRX]

You are all pussies until you do a hitch on the North Slope in winter. Typical range is -10F to -30F, and the coldest I've experienced is -72F. So quit whining...

I believe that merits the 'why would you do that?' kitty.

Money, and lots of it...

[arctictom]

You are all pussies until you do a hitch on the North Slope in winter. Typical range is -10F to -30F, and the coldest I've experienced is -72F. So quit whining...

And it is usually blowing 30 kts.

[Dinochrome One]

You are all pussies until you do a hitch on the North Slope in winter. Typical range is -10F to -30F, and the coldest I've experienced is -72F. So quit whining...

And it is usually blowing 30 kts.

I was on the North Slope in winter in 1970. Officially assigned to the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory at Point Barrow, our actual job was to facilitate communications between the Coast Guard ice-breakers in the Arctic Ocean and NCS Kodiak. They dressed us in Air Force parkas, woolly Army shirts and pants, and Mickey Mouse boots. They told us to grow beards and not tell anyone we were Navy. We saw temps below -50 with a strong wind off the frozen ice-cap that crept under our doors at the little comm shack; the warmest place was next to the cooling-exhaust vent on the 10-thousand watt HF transmitter. Best part: seeing the Northern Lights from underneath.

By the way, it gets colder here in the Ozarks than it EVER got at Adak.

[Windy Wilson]

Yes, our blood is thin out here. Tap water would be thicker.

Well, sure. I've been to California. Your tap water is undrinkable.

That it is, that it is.


I used to work with a man who went to Brigham Young University. He said that whenever the temperature got to 45 degrees everyone was out running around the track in running shorts and t shirts.

[PawPaw]

It has hovered in the 30s all day long, with an east wind at about 6 mph, and I am about to freeze my gizzard.

The local constabulary actually found a homeless fellow dead this morning from hypothermia. A citizen saw him upright at 4:00 a.m., but by 6:00 he was deceased. Poor fellow looked like he was malnourished and was about four blocks from a Salvation Army shelter. Why he didn't go there we'll never know. He was also about six blocks from a Red Cross shelter.

You've got to be sober to get in the shelter, though, and I guess this guy didn't want to sober up.

[Darrell]

I read that it snowed on the Arabian Peninsula. Some mullah promptly declared a fatwa against snowmen. I kid you not.

We had several days of freezing fog here. Started out as rain, then turned to snow, I had 4"-6" of heavy, wet stuff overnight (snow like that is rare here, especially in January; it's usually dry and fluffy). Surprisingly it didn't turn to ice. Then it turned cold and foggy, coating everything in white. Still wasn't particularly icy, but definitely winter conditions driving. The sun came out this afternoon, though, and finally got back above freezing. Supposed to be 50s and sunny tomorrow, ditto+ for Friday. Nice thing about Colorado, the sun always comes back.

[308Mike]

Notice NO ONE from the very SOUTH-WEST portion of the USA posted in this thread? That's because we had BEAUTIFUL temps and weather the whole time the rest of the nation was suffering.

We'd LOVE to be able to help, but simply saying: "I'd LOVE to be able to send you some of our weather rings hollow to many people, even when we REALLY mean it!!! And by REALLY MEAN IT, we do!

My wife really misses the snows of the upper northeast, but not so much she wants to move back home! Never having lived with regular snows (just visited), I'd have mixed feelings about moving from a desert location (SoCal) to anywhere which experiences all four seasons - no matter how much I THINK I love all four seasons (even if I've experienced them, but never had to LIVE THEM - and there's a GIGANTIC difference between the two!!!).

The ADVANTAGE to living on the road is that you can easily and quickly change your environment. Sure, it might take you a few days, but you can QUICKLY and EASILY go from one environment to another. HOWEVER, when people need HELP, it's EXTREMELY EASY for you to make the necessary changes in your schedule to make a SIGNIFICANT change in MANY people's lives simply because you showed up and put your RV to use (perhaps by the use of your generator, or maybe they NEED to use your refrigerator for excess blood they had on storage but needed to be kept refrigerated - the stuff which can SAVE LIVES), each and EVERY RV can help save lives in an emergency!!!

After all, each of them are a small, self-contained home. AND THEY ARE MOBILE!

YMMV

SEMPER FI!!!

[Yogimus]

Montana finds your weather "quaint"