It is so cold that...

[Zkribbler]

My fellow Angelenos are complaining about how cold it's been -- highs in the 60s, lows in the 40s. I got to thinkin' that Poly has some people from places that get really cold: Canada, Finland, Latvia, etc. You people have to have some good stories.

[Asher]

Once it go so cold that I wore a toque outside.

[Tattila the Hun]

Beard is bothersome in cold weather.

[Ninot]

Originally posted by Asher
Once it go so cold that I wore a toque outside.

It's only been -10 lately. I'm leaving mine at home

[pchang]

My eyelids froze together

Some wind blew grit in my eyes and they started tearing. I tried to blink the grit out and closed my eyes for about 30 seconds. When I tried to open them, they were stuck together. The tears had frozen over my eyelashes. I had to take my gloves off to break the ice off my eyelashes.

Consider that tears have salts and other organic chemicals in it that makes its freezing point lower than regular water.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

We had ice yesterday.

[CrONoS]

since 2 ****ing weeks, the temperature is around -15 to -25c ...
but today is hot hot hot...around -5c

[Zkribbler]

Re: My eyelids froze together

Originally posted by pchang
Some wind blew grit in my eyes and they started tearing. I tried to blink the grit out and closed my eyes for about 30 seconds. When I tried to open them, they were stuck together. The tears had frozen over my eyelashes. I had to take my gloves off to break the ice off my eyelashes.

Consider that tears have salts and other organic chemicals in it that makes its freezing point lower than regular water.

That is MoFo cold!

[Zoid]

When I made my military service we should do a stupid thing with napalm. We built a tunnel with two by fours and covered it with pin tree branches. We were to put the napalm on the pine tree branches and set it on fire. Then we should run beneath it... Problem was that the barrels of napalm had been out in the cold for an hour or so and had set so it was the texture of marmelade and just rolled off the "roof" of the tunnel...

But who the **** uses napalm nowadays anyway?

[Krill]

So...Very...Cold...

[Combat Ingrid]

Re: Re: My eyelids froze together

Originally posted by Zkribbler


That is MoFo cold!

Not really. If it's around -20C and windy stuff like that tends to happen, especially if you don't cover your face. Of course, from a californian perspective -20C is probably damn damn cold

Anyway, the winter here has been a joke. We didn't get any real snow until after christmas and now it's already melting away. The temperature didn't go below -20 so far and it's probably too late now to experience real cold this winter

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by Zoid

But who the **** uses napalm nowadays anyway?

I hear it smells nice in the morning. Don't start the day without it.

[Richelieu]

Those wonderfull few minutes spent in agony while your toes de-freeze after playing hockey outside. Or the idiot who got his tongue frozen to the side of the window frame on the school bus.

[The Mad Monk]

Jack London had a story where he described how you could know the appoximate temperature by spitting.

Just found it: "To Build A Fire"

As he turned to go on, he spat speculatively. There was a sharp, explosive crackle that startled him. He spat again. And again, in the air, before it could fall to the snow, the spittle crackled. He knew that at fifty below spittle crackled on the snow, but this spittle had crackled in the air. Undoubtedly it was colder than fifty below--how much colder he did not know.

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Jack_London/To_Build_a_Fire/To_Build_a_Fire_p1.html

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Richelieu
Those wonderfull few minutes spent in agony while your toes de-freeze after playing hockey outside. Or the idiot who got his tongue frozen to the side of the window frame on the school bus.

I remember my high school science teacher telling us how, when he was a kid in Michigan, it was manly to put your tongue to a metal pole, let the tongue tip freeze to the pole, and then pull your tongue away, leaving a small patch of skin behind. When he tried, though, he chickened out. He tried to get free by adding more moisture, i.e. by sticking more of his tongue onto the pole. Pretty soon, the whole length of his tongue plus the front of his face was stuck to the pole. He only got free because someone poured a pan of warm water down the pole. He walked around for days with a red stripe down the middle of his face.