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AoMythology

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VEGETA, what does the post counter scouter say about his post count level?!

IT'S OVER EIGHT THOUSAAAAAAAAND!*

WHAT?! EIGHT THOUSAND?!

*going off the original Japanese where the line was 8000 and not 9000, because I might not ever hit 9001 posts on TFF
LAWL.
 
Oh, I don't mean I'm ignoring the windchill. I meant that even before I include the windchill, just the air temperature itself is already brutally cold.

Some more days since in that temperature range. My car didn't even start yesterday after going 5 days without driving :( Had to boost it first.
Have the battery load tested. The cold weather could cause the battery to have a bad cell or not enough cold cranking amps.
 

seitora

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Have the battery load tested. The cold weather could cause the battery to have a bad cell or not enough cold cranking amps.
My battery was already 7 years old so I said fuck it and replaced it. It worked at freezing point and slightly below, but I live in an area that'll regularly hit -20°C and occasionally even -40°C in the winter time, so definitely need some reliability.
 

seitora

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Well, today is my birthday, guys. 30 years old! Still one of the youngest here, I suppose.
2021-01-11, eh? Your 20th must have been something even funnier :D

Happy birthday, then! I'm actually only slightly older than you (turned 30 last year), though I believe one of the Discord regulars is 23?
 

da_fox2279

California Crackpot
Congrats, AM! Hope today's a good one.
 

AoMythology

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seitora

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Finally hitting the extreme cold in the Canadian prairies. -40°C with windchill for the next two nights.
 

seitora

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The prairies? Minus 40 centigrade sounds more like Victoria Island or the Queen Elizabeth Islands to me. :eek: Stay warm!
Yep. The Canadian prairies are interior enough to the continent that they don't really get any temperature moderation from oceanic currents, at all. States like Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana would be the same. Even having a large lake doesn't help — Winnipeg is located between both Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba, but still can get same said ridiculously cold temperatures.
 
I remember having an overnight layover in Minneapolis one winter on my way to Peoria. It was so cold that all my exposed skin felt like it was literally burning. Even when I lived in NAVSTA Great Lakes, which is right on Lake Superior, I'd never felt so cold. Of course, Great Lakes often got windy as hell. I remember shovling snow from the roundabout of my barracks. It would get so windy that while standing on ice, we'd hold up our snow shovels, using them as sails to race across the driveway.
 

AoMythology

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Finally hitting the extreme cold in the Canadian prairies. -40°C with windchill for the next two nights.
You've made me shiver just by reading your post...
 

AoMythology

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...By the way, there were extreme weather phenomena going on near Athens, too. Very strong winds, to the point some things broke off -- on the upper end of 8 in the Beaufort scale, I'd say, which is rare in Greece (outside of the islands, at least).
 

seitora

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You've made me shiver just by reading your post...
The way I like to describe -40 is this. Imagine 35°C/95°F, and the difference between that and 10°C/50°F. You go from wearing shorts and sandals and a t-shirt and potentially using an air conditioner and definitely a fan indoors, to wearing a shirt, jeans, shoes, and possible a light jacket outdoors. To imagine -40, take that same temperature drop from 35°C to 10°C and then repeat it twice more.
 

ThreadWeaver

Beware of Dog. Cat not trustworthy either.
Living in the both Blessed and God-forsaken land that is Minnesota, the cold can get brutal. Then 4 months later the humidity and heat is so high you wonder how you can still breathe and not steam your lungs. You can tell when it hits -10F (-23C) because the little hairs in your nose will freeze with each breath. You wiggle your nose and it feels "crunchy" inside. At -20F (-30C) snow actually starts to chirp and squeak when you step on it. It was +10F (-12C) today and we forgot our scarves on our walk. Even a 5 MPH wind feels like it's trying to fillet layers off your face.
As bad as all that is, I'd rather it be cold than warm. I can always put more clothes on. I can only take so many off in public before I get to spend some time in a jail cell with "Bubba"...
Cars need to be specially adapted for extended weather below -20F. Washer fluid freezes and damages the system at -20F. The oil and the grease in the joints don't like to move and your tires develop flat spots where it was standing all night, which take a while to work out as they warm up while spinning. When it gets that cold, a lot of people rely on "Block heaters" which are heating elements installed in the engine blocks that we can plug in overnight to keep the antifreeze warm, and the car more likely to start in the AM.
But hey, at least the two or three weeks that we get in spring and fall are amazing, but seems shorter than it is. The joke here is, "If we're lucky, spring and fall will come on weekends this year!"
 

seitora

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This week, I saw one of the news sites in Toronto post a headline "EXTREME COLD Warning". I looked in, and found it could 'feel as cold as -15°C with the windchill'.

My reaction was basically: "Awww, that's cute, you guys actually think -15°C is 'extreme' cold."
 
during the Construction on the High School I used to go to and currently work in.

they found Unexploded World War 2 bombs. right UNDER the building I used to work at (what was demolished and a new building taking its place).
good thing I was at my day off today.

they have called local police and proper bomb authorities to dispose of them.



 

da_fox2279

California Crackpot
That's actually very neat... and sort of terrifying. Glad nothing set them off (if they even could, after all this time).
 

ThreadWeaver

Beware of Dog. Cat not trustworthy either.
they found Unexploded World War 2 bombs. right UNDER the building I used to work at (what was demolished and a new building taking its place).
"Hey, the test in Chemistry class today was a real BLAST!"
"Lucky you. I think I bombed it."
 

seitora

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It got relatively warm for me for a while (relatively meaning only 5 or 10 degrees below freezing), but the last few days have been a second cold snap. It is now -34°C outside for me...-50°C with the windchill. Barring a building fire or something like that, there is no fucking way I'm going outside.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
It got relatively warm for me for a while (relatively meaning only 5 or 10 degrees below freezing), but the last few days have been a second cold snap. It is now -34°C outside for me...-50°C with the windchill. Barring a building fire or something like that, there is no fucking way I'm going outside.
I was not hit yet yesterday by the super cold (only 12F in morning not counting wind chill), and though still somewhat cold, some of the snow and ice I had became brittle enough with the sunlight I scraped what I could off the driveway using an old Iron coal shovel I keep for just such a purpose... I wanted the driveway as clear as possible so I would not be attempting to shovel multiple layers of snow and ice. While it is not so good at thin black ice... that iron based shovel slices through and rips apart most forms of ice as long as it can find and edge or crack to get a starting point on.

I always dislike though that ice forms on the inside surface of the car windows though when it gets really cold.
 

seitora

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We got sick of all this cold up in the Great White North, so we banished it down to the U.S. Sorry for that!
 
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