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To: Ditto

I’m glad you took that in the spirit it was intended. LOL!

At -44F it is so cold that you cannot inhale, without freezing the mucus in your throat or nose. Your teeth hurt from the cold and exposed skin starts to ache in a couple of minutes. In my experience with those kinds of cold temps in the north country, and in Canada there is rarely a wind associated with it. It is usually high barometric pressure, cloudless skies, and zero wind. and -44 degrees at 6:30 am. But the two-stroke snowmobile engines love that cold dense air.

There is a certain S&M aspect of living here...52 years and counting.

FWIW, Lived in Buffalo as a kid, spent 35 years in Syracuse, and moved to Rochester. Went to SU as an undergrad and Cornell for grad school.


19 posted on 11/19/2014 6:09:30 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Ouderkirk
FWIW, Lived in Buffalo as a kid, spent 35 years in Syracuse, and moved to Rochester. Went to SU as an undergrad and Cornell for grad school.

My hat's off to you for not being one of those pussy Snow Birds in Florida every winter. ;~))

22 posted on 11/19/2014 6:23:48 PM PST by Ditto
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To: Ouderkirk
At -44F it is so cold that you cannot inhale, without freezing the mucus in your throat or nose. Your teeth hurt from the cold and exposed skin starts to ache in a couple of minutes.

I used to have a snorkel coat for very cold weather.

Inhale warmer air from inside the coat, exhale with your mouth blowing the air out the front. Kept me warm. Visibility with the snorkel front deployed was low, and you had to rotate your body back and forth because you had no side-vision.

24 posted on 11/20/2014 8:03:48 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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