Hey CC, cold enough for ya?

Scott Gordo

Man, Minnesota sounds awful. From what I've been reading, Buffalo
ain't exactly t-shirt weather either.

/s

GeeDubb

"Scott Gordo" <blubberpuss@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:cfa843b3-93e8-4f93-904b-95b66b2d3c4c@d70g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Man, Minnesota sounds awful. From what I've been reading, Buffalo
> ain't exactly t-shirt weather either.
>
> /s

hehehehe, sposed to hit upper 70's here today :-)

Gary

Corvus Corvax

On Feb 12, 12:04 pm, Scott Gordo <blubberp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Man, Minnesota sounds awful. From what I've been reading, Buffalo
> ain't exactly t-shirt weather either.

It's not as bad as Minnesota up here. It was a relatively balmy 7
degrees when I rode into work yesterday. Today is warmer.

CC

MattB

Corvus Corvax wrote:
> On Feb 12, 12:04 pm, Scott Gordo <blubberp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Man, Minnesota sounds awful. From what I've been reading, Buffalo
>> ain't exactly t-shirt weather either.
>
> It's not as bad as Minnesota up here. It was a relatively balmy 7
> degrees when I rode into work yesterday. Today is warmer.
>
> CC
>
>

We're having a heat wave here. 36 F today. Meltdown time!

Hopefully this will stabilize the snow pack for the spring snows. It's
been pretty unstable for a while now and people have been getting killed.

Matt

Scott Gordo

On Feb 12, 3:17*pm, Corvus Corvax <corvuscor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Feb 12, 12:04 pm, Scott Gordo <blubberp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Man, Minnesota sounds awful. From what I've been reading, Buffalo
> > ain't exactly t-shirt weather either.
>
> It's not as bad as Minnesota up here. It was a relatively balmy 7
> degrees when I rode into work yesterday. Today is warmer.
>
> CC

I don't think that I can comprehend -40. I've been in a windy Chicago
-10 before, which is cold enough to be scary. -40? Eesh. -10 felt like
the coldest possible, subtracting 30 more (consider the diff between
80 and 50) is...is too much for me to get my head around. That's stay-
at-home, develop-a-hardcore-chemical-addiction, wait-until-the-
stircrazy-tells-you-to-kill kind of cold.

The only logical thing to do is run outside yelling "I understand! I
get it!", strip off all of your clothing, and wait until you feel
warm.

/s

Corvus Corvax

On Feb 12, 4:40 pm, Scott Gordo <blubberp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think that I can comprehend -40.

I saw temperatures like that a few times when I lived in Montana, with
wind chills below -60. When you walk outside, the snot freezes in your
nose instantly. Strange sensation.

I know some people who have wintered over at the South Pole. They have
a thing called the "300 degree club ". You'll like this: you have to
sit in a 200F sauna, then jump out into -100F cold, and run around the
South Pole, naked. 300 degree temperature difference. I heard a story
about one guy who started his run and promptly got lost because of all
the steam coming off his body. They found him before he died, but from
then on, everybody called him "Scott".

Here are some photos of a 300-degree club run:

http://astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/...ub/300club.html

Crazy shit.

CC

Scott Gordo

On Feb 12, 7:20*pm, Corvus Corvax <corvuscor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Feb 12, 4:40 pm, Scott Gordo <blubberp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I don't think that I can comprehend -40.
>
> I saw temperatures like that a few times when I lived in Montana, with
> wind chills below -60. When you walk outside, the snot freezes in your
> nose instantly. Strange sensation.
>
> I know some people who have wintered over at the South Pole. They have
> a thing called the "300 degree club ". You'll like this: you have to
> sit in a 200F sauna, then jump out into -100F cold, and run around the
> South Pole, naked. 300 degree temperature difference. I heard a story
> about one guy who started his run and promptly got lost because of all
> the steam coming off his body. They found him before he died, but from
> then on, everybody called him "Scott".
>
> Here are some photos of a 300-degree club run:
>
> http://astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/...ub/300club.html
>
> Crazy shit.
>
> CC

"Most of the ghosts were running back to the sauna, although some of
them appeared to be running anywhere. As in war, confusion seemed to
prevail over most of us."

Goldang!

I suddenly feel like slightly less of a hero for jumping from 50
degree outside temp into 42 degree water. In fact, I feel like a
darned sissy. But let me tell you, that shiz was coooold. 300 degrees
is... uh... only thing I can think of is science experiments with
liquid nitrogen.

/s

MattB

Scott Gordo wrote:
> On Feb 12, 7:20 pm, Corvus Corvax <corvuscor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 12, 4:40 pm, Scott Gordo <blubberp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I don't think that I can comprehend -40.
>> I saw temperatures like that a few times when I lived in Montana, with
>> wind chills below -60. When you walk outside, the snot freezes in your
>> nose instantly. Strange sensation.
>>
>> I know some people who have wintered over at the South Pole. They have
>> a thing called the "300 degree club ". You'll like this: you have to
>> sit in a 200F sauna, then jump out into -100F cold, and run around the
>> South Pole, naked. 300 degree temperature difference. I heard a story
>> about one guy who started his run and promptly got lost because of all
>> the steam coming off his body. They found him before he died, but from
>> then on, everybody called him "Scott".
>>
>> Here are some photos of a 300-degree club run:
>>
>> http://astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/...ub/300club.html
>>
>> Crazy shit.
>>
>> CC
>
> "Most of the ghosts were running back to the sauna, although some of
> them appeared to be running anywhere. As in war, confusion seemed to
> prevail over most of us."
>
> Goldang!
>
> I suddenly feel like slightly less of a hero for jumping from 50
> degree outside temp into 42 degree water. In fact, I feel like a
> darned sissy. But let me tell you, that shiz was coooold. 300 degrees
> is... uh... only thing I can think of is science experiments with
> liquid nitrogen.
>
> /s

Yeah, that's pretty impressive. I think I've done 125 degree swings (105
hot tub to -20 and back) and that's pretty shocking. But it's not even
half of their range!

Matt