Love my job, even at -10^. Ice fog rolled in last night, left trees covered in 1" of rime ice. Sun lit it up like a billion jewels. It was a good day to get out in the field.
You must be part Polar Bear.
Thanks for the Pic. Beautiful!
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FL/GA PLS., post: 403768, member: 379 wrote: You must be part Polar Bear.
Nahhh. I just hate heat rash, chiggers, scorpions & venomous snakes, crowds of freaks at Walmart and stop and go traffic jams in general. The cold thins out the crowd a bit. 😉
Hope you didn't get hit my that meteorite streaking through the sky in the first photo. It couldn't have been anything man-made intruding on that scene.
FL/GA PLS., post: 403768, member: 379 wrote: You must be part Polar Bear.
It's all about how you dress....
A good layer of blubber helps too. :bacon: :yum:
RADAR, post: 403841, member: 413 wrote: It's all about how you dress....
A good layer of blubber helps too. :bacon: :yum:
Very true. First winter I surveyed up here I just about lost some digits. Tracked down a trapper's wife in the interior and had her make me a beaver trappers hat and over mitts that hang over my shoulders. Can curl up and take a nap in this stuff and I have. I'd much rather spend time in negative temps than borderline freezing where everything melts on contact.
But it's a dry cold!
I guess the coldest I've worked in here in Oklahoma was just few degrees above zero. It was the late '70s, January I think. We all showed up for work and it was a crystal clear day...deceiving to say the least. The boss figured we would probably stay indoors. Hell no, we're men, we can take it. He let us go.
I had a lot of subdivision work and one in particular needed the paving staked. A few days earlier I had ran a nail line down 1000' of centerline and left two hubs and flats at each station, duly marked. All we had to do was grab a hammer, plumb bob and rag tape and we ought to be able to knock it out.
At two or three above zero it took about a half a second to feel the cold. Then the rag (nylon) tape actually cracked and broke on the end. We tried to slam a couple of hubs and all they did was explode. We grabbed a fresh bundle from the back and kept them in the truck floorboard with the heater blowing on them..that helped.
Every station required a starter hole with a bull-prick and progress was awfully slow. After thirty minutes nobody could feel their face...or speak English for that matter. After a few hours of working and then hopping back in the truck to warm up we were almost done. Then someone missed the bull-prick with the sledge and snapped the handle like a toothpick. We finished with a 3lb. shop hammer.
Went back in around noon. The boss was sitting in his chair with his feet on his desk. He wanted to know what took us so long.
I think the high that day was 5 above. Anybody that works in that kind of weather has my respect. 😉
Holy Cow, post: 403838, member: 50 wrote: Hope you didn't get hit my that meteorite streaking through the sky in the first photo. It couldn't have been anything man-made intruding on that scene.
You old fool those are contrails. Or a UFO from Zoltron. 😉
Must be nice to have some light...... we won't see the sun here in Prudhoe Bay for another 40 days or so...
End of the Road, post: 403883, member: 7310 wrote: Must be nice to have some light...... we won't see the sun here in Prudhoe Bay for another 40 days or so...
ouch..
Is the Bay frozen over?
paden cash, post: 403885, member: 20 wrote: ouch..
Is the Bay frozen over?
yep! we have been walking on lakes since the first week of Sept. not sure when the ocean froze over.... 
End of the Road, post: 403883, member: 7310 wrote: Must be nice to have some light...... we won't see the sun here in Prudhoe Bay for another 40 days or so...
You have my deepest sympathy End of the Road. Precious commodity around these parts this time of year.
Williwaw, post: 403891, member: 7066 wrote: You have my deepest sympathy End of the Road. Precious commodity around these parts this time of year.
Work hard play hard......... Hawaii for 4 weeks starting the 25th...... but i'll still take your sympathies!!!;):earth:
Hate to change the subject..but I just viewed the latest western CONUS satellite imagery of water vapor.
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcwv.html
With the current air temps, surface and aloft, it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to imagine what the next 5 to 7 days will bring us in the way of precip.
Note to self: plug in all the trickle chargers for motorcycles. I probably won't be on any of them for a while.
I'm more concerned about Saturday night through Sunday night. Low of 4, then up to maybe 20, then back down to 4. Thank you, but, no thanks.
Holy Cow, post: 403933, member: 50 wrote: I'm more concerned about Saturday night through Sunday night. Low of 4, then up to maybe 20, then back down to 4. Thank you, but, no thanks.
When it gets that cold do you bring all your animals in the house? 😉
Just the old nag............................................who had better never find out about this post......................................
paden cash, post: 403844, member: 20 wrote: Went back in around noon. The boss was sitting in his chair with his feet on his desk. He wanted to know what took us so long.
I surveyed in Nebraska; August 11, 1975 to July 9th 1990. I found this Lincoln Nebraska Weather History Site. I worked mostly in the greater Omaha area, which isn't to far away..
Scroll down to #2. The coldest recorded daytime high temperature; -10 DEC 24 1983
My youngest was 3, my oldest was 8 and we had one in the middle. I drove a '64 Dodge Panel Truck, at that time and we needed to go visit relatives. I worked at a firm that always had a little office party, the afternoon of Christmas Eve. A few beers, a couple shots of whiskey and maybe a couple of hands of poker.
The heater core in my panel panel truck had sprung a leak, a couple days earlier, so I found a piece of tubing and bypassed it until I could get around to replacing it.
The crews came in around noon and the office couldn't start the party until all the crews were in. Our crew was the last one in; the party chief (Dougie) was a young guy and was trying to impress the boss, I guess. We rolled in around 12:45...
We were met with exuberance; you'd of thought we'd won the championship and were being welcomed home. The party commenced immediately and EVERYONE proceeded to have a good time...
We ended up playing a a little game called between the sheets. Take a look at the rules, if you're not familiar; the bottom line is, it's good to be the dealer. We were anteing 2 quarters and there was about 10 of us. This young engineer thought he was pretty good at poker and ended up losing his....
I actually ended up about 10 dollars richer and headed home around normal quitting time.
The plan was to go over to my folks house that night and then her folks the next day. we loaded up the kids in the van and wrapped them up in quilts. My wife had her hands in mittens and her and the youngest sat, wrapped in a quilt in the front passenger seat; the older 2 sat on a toy box in the back, wrapped in their quilt.
I was dress the same as I was for work that day, minus the coveralls. mom's house was about 20 miles away and we were headed down the road. The wife looks over at me and says; aren't your hands cold? I wasn't wearing gloves; I took my hand off the steering wheel and you could see steam rising up off it. She pulls her hand out from under the quilt and takes off the mitten. I held her hand and mine was warmer.
