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bout a week and a half ago we had a really nasty cold streak. well, I've found out that during that week we were the second coldest inhabited place on earth behind siberia.

temps got as low as -59 degrees celcius (-74.2 degrees Fahrenheit) with windchill (with it being about -50C before windchill).

So yeah......no riding.

Being outside was like experiencing the personification of Death as a city. Everything is terribly and dreadfully silent. You feel like youre the last person left alive in the world. The only sound you hear is the wind poking and prodding, and trying to seek out any life left in those frozen deathlands. Oh, and nothing works.....metals and machinery are at the brink of operating capacity due to the cold.

If you weren't surrounded by amenities and the great people of this city who know how to handle a winter, you can just imagine how truly frakked you would be. You develop a sense of how bitter a struggle the first settlers would have had here trying to survive through the long winters. They didn't have the thousands of years of practice the natives did. Even those natives when they first came across the frozen land-bridge linking Asia to North America would have had millenia of experience dealing with this sort of thing.

But all that being as it may.........I need to get the M. Frak out of this city!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
So.....where would you go? If you had the opportunity to go anywhere else, where would it be? Aren't your spring & summers nice?!?!
 
(-74.2 degrees Fahrenheit) with windchill
Wuss. :rolleyes:

:D

We actually experienced -85F (with windchill) once when I was stationed at Grand Forks, North Dakota. They even made the Missile crews stay in their capsules for an extra 24-hour shift that time!

Coldest I'd ever dispatched (no wind that day, thank goodness) was -28F. We had to remove a cable from a missile site, topside, and that required removing 15 tiny brass screws, you couldn't grasp them with gloves on.
We each could get three screws off at a time, before our hands got so cold we couldn't move them, then jump back into the truck for 20 minutes to warm them back up.
While I miss the odd beauty of that area, I don't miss those dispatches!
 
Wow! I have some friends over in Flin Flon that want us to come visit. After seeing those temps, I'll wait for the month of summer you guys have. :Flash:
 
Oh, and my current home made "second-worst-in-the-nation" record yesterday, for air pollution. :( It's so bad I can smell it inside the house, and the mountains 5 miles away are not visible... :eek:
 
Wuss. :rolleyes:

:D

We actually experienced -85F (with windchill) once when I was stationed at Grand Forks, North Dakota. They even made the Missile crews stay in their capsules for an extra 24-hour shift that time!

Coldest I'd ever dispatched (no wind that day, thank goodness) was -28F. We had to remove a cable from a missile site, topside, and that required removing 15 tiny brass screws, you couldn't grasp them with gloves on.
We each could get three screws off at a time, before our hands got so cold we couldn't move them, then jump back into the truck for 20 minutes to warm them back up.
While I miss the odd beauty of that area, I don't miss those dispatches!

I was stationed at Grand Forks, ND as well from Dec 1988 to Jun 2003. When were you there and where did you work?
 
our springs are not very nice no.

our summers are AWESOME tho. the perfect temps its like being in the mediteranean but without the humidity.

they only last like 2 months tho (the great weather part)

those snow claw things are awesome tho. I might actually pick them up for some random trips around my neigborhood to ward off the withdrawl.
 
Wuss. :rolleyes:

:D

We actually experienced -85F (with windchill) once when I was stationed at Grand Forks, North Dakota. They even made the Missile crews stay in their capsules for an extra 24-hour shift that time!

Coldest I'd ever dispatched (no wind that day, thank goodness) was -28F. We had to remove a cable from a missile site, topside, and that required removing 15 tiny brass screws, you couldn't grasp them with gloves on.
We each could get three screws off at a time, before our hands got so cold we couldn't move them, then jump back into the truck for 20 minutes to warm them back up.
While I miss the odd beauty of that area, I don't miss those dispatches!

yeesh. when i move out from here I know a place to AVOID. haha thanks for the heads up.
 
I'm sure is an very interesting and unusual sight that not many people get to see. Every area in this world has something beautiful in it, unique, etc.
Also the feelings you experience there are one of the kind too!
Cold - but very interesting.

Stay warm!
razteo

PS: I'm wearing a t-shirt today, and tomorrow I'll go for a ride :)
 
I've been to edmonton once over this past thanksgiving to visit my buddies parents that moved there from vancouver. I could not imagine living there. It was only a couple degrees below 0 and maybe -10 with windchill and I hated it then. you are a brave man. haha
 
I was stationed at Grand Forks, ND as well from Dec 1988 to Jun 2003. When were you there and where did you work?
Cool! (no pun intended). I was there from 1992 to 1995, was the OIC for Tech Engineering in the 321st Missile Wing (now defunct). You?
 
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