Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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Feb. '96 I was in central MN and woke up at 6am to my wife calling me from our home in Northern MN saying the car wouldn't start. It was -35 where I was, so I asked her how cold was it? Surprised because the car always started, -60. I told her that was God's way of telling her to stay home!
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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I used to walk to work in Fairbanks anytime it got below -35. I figured it was easier on me than the PU. I was never cold on the way. Beaver hat, mits, bunny boots and carhartt coveralls. A insulated cup of coffee and away I would go. It was about a 2 mile walk. You can dress for the cold, but its hard on vehicles.
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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70 & 80’s in Fairbanks would drop to 50 below for a couple weeks several times a winter. You could count on power going out sometimes for several days. For the first 6 years of the Quest I broke trail from Chena Hot Springs to mile 101 Steese. It was a no excuse job cause the race was on! Birch Creek was always the coldest and the track felt like it had 2X4’s across it. Rosebud was also bad when the wind would blow. Freeze flesh in a minute!”
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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I remember one year at work it went down to 50-60 below for almost the whole month of January. The hydraulics on the hi-rail truck would not work,so they sent some thinner oil which only succeeded in burning out the pump. Luckily we had acess to a railway speeder so we could get out and change all the broken rails after each train.At that temp the older steel gets so brittle that some will snap clean after each train. Had to do a track patrol (inspection) at those low temps before and after each train.
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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Little did I know it at the time but the coldest day of my life was when my first wife said "I do"
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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November 14, 1976 Attigan pass north slope of Alaska. Final tie-in we had to keep propane bottles on the bus so we could heat the bottles in the tent to preheat the pipe. The weather station at Dead Horse air strip announced the temperature was -83 F actual and the wind was at 40 knots. They said the wind chill was somewhere below 120. We were about twenty miles from camp and a couple thousand feet higher. Working at forty - fifty below was fairly common with a few minus sixties thrown in. I remember guys carving the frost on the inside of the bus windows, it was about two inches thick. I also remember thinking it was as close to being in outer space as I would ever be. Saw tempered steel break like glass. Fingers and toes still get painfully cold very quickly.
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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I was at Happy Valley (Giggle Gulch) I believe November 1976. It was so cold that the planes weren’t flying. I got a flight to Fairbanks after New Years. Upon getting to Fairbanks we were the 19th plane waiting in line to land because of the ice fog. We circled for an hour and were next in line to land, the other planes all went on to Anchorage. All of a sudden the pilot said were cleared to land. Our flight was the only one that landed in over a couple of days. Power at home was off for a couple of days and was really cold.
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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I've been in negative temps many times, Northern Maine, Washington State, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota. But the coldest I have ever been was in Saudi Arabia, Jan 1991, sitting in a DFP in the middle of the desert, 40+ mph wind, 24 degrees, foggy. No thermals, just my desert BDUs. That was a long night.
When things are Grim, become the Grim Reaper! Fred Moyer
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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the coldest I ever was it was not that cold and it wasn't either of the times I went through the ice
trying to get heat in the pole shed we were working on , it had just turned cold and snowing kind of a mix of freezing rain and snow , jeans and a flannel shirt felt fine when I went up the ladder, I had no intention of laying on that roof that long
hey Pete we need you on the roof to put the stack up for the Modine heater. sure I park my truck on the far side of the pole shed , toss the rope over and they tied me off to the hitch on my truck so I couldn't fall
what should have taken 20 minutes turned into about 90 that flew by and I was shaking so bad when I came down soaked through , laying on steel working on the flashing and getting it all together.
I was 16 or 17 stood in front of a salamander heater for what seemed like an hour to quit shaking and teeth chattering it may have not been that long.
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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It got to -35 here in January of 1994 and I believe that holds the record as the coldest ever recorded in KY. It also snowed 20" and was real cold for several days
It is what it is.
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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I've been in negative temps many times, Northern Maine, Washington State, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota. But the coldest I have ever been was in Saudi Arabia, Jan 1991, sitting in a DFP in the middle of the desert, 40+ mph wind, 24 degrees, foggy. No thermals, just my desert BDUs. That was a long night. December 88
This southern boy had been flown into Frankfurt Airport on Thanksgiving Day .After a few days of processing I get to my unit in Grafenwohr just in time to be issued gear for a winter training exercise and loaded up to go to the woods. There was a foot of snow on the ground and it was an iffy thing just getting to the training area. Being as new and green as they come I was assigned to fetch and tote tents, cots and such. During the course of this while toting an armload of cots in the dark I managed to walk out onto snow covered ice hiding a really deep rut. Deep enough to soak me to my belly when I broke through. Even though I reported this to the NCO in charge work still carried on and only by keeping moving was I able to continue. Somewhere early in the AM I was finally told to hit the sack. It was when I stripped down and started wringing out my drawers that the NCO realized I wasn't just a slacker.
I know not Alaska cold, but for an Alabama boy it was quite the shock. X2 on both. Born and raised in North Dakota where -30 air temp and -60 wind chill is common, but sleeping in a pup tent for a week with heavy, wet snow in Wildflecken, Germany back in December of 1989 and laying in the mud along the Saudi, Kuwaiti border a year later were about as painfully cold as it gets. Too funny, the second coldest night of my life was outside of Spangdalem AB, Germany. Exercise Salty Demo in 1985. Set up an ambush, light rain, pretty much soaked us getting into position, then the temps bottomed out. Sooo cold, laying still, soaked to the bone until morning.
When things are Grim, become the Grim Reaper! Fred Moyer
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