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@ 04:19 am (GMT) |
Paul LevermanWhat do you do when it's -32*? You can't shoot, your finger freezes on the trigger. Your pressures and velocities are all over the map. Steel does not like this temperature, it breaks real easy. The sun is brilliant, the wind is dead calm, which is fortunate. The mirage off the snow is heavy, but almost perfectly vertical. The earmuffs get so hard that they no longer conform, so it hurts to shoot, now you flinch. It take at least thirty minutes for the seats in the car to warm up enough that they aren't rock hard, and that's with heated seats. It's just plain miserable. But they expect you to work in it. |
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@ 08:38 am (GMT) |
Andrew MurrayRe: Not muchI am not a fan of the heat. I prefer the cooler weather. But I'm here in NSW, Australia. We tend to get regular frosts in the winter but nothing like what you have described. Our summers get very intense, often over 40 Celsius (104F) for extended periods during the day and sometimes for days at a time. We can reach 45C (113F) without too much effort and the like. But I've never experienced cold like you've described. There are some jobs that require you to work in those conditions too. MY local rifle range shuts down from mid- December to early February because of the heat... The clay target club stays open though.Interestingly enough -40C and -40F are the same temperature. It's the only point where Celsius and Fahrenheit line up.[b] |
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@ 11:52 am (GMT) |
Paul LevermanRe: Not muchPeople say what difference does it make when it gets that cold? A lot. That last 5-10 degrees to make -40 is a bitch. When it hits these lows, everything breaks. If you stand still and listen, you can hear the trees snapping and cracking. They either lose branches or split open. It is dry though. And that is nice, I hate being wet. If you get wet, you die. |
@ 02:48 pm (GMT) |
mark korteRe: Not muchPaul - its pretty early in the winter to be thinking that way - we've got a long way to go. That being said, I've only seen -30's F here a couple times and you're right - stuff starts to break. And the furnace never stops running. I hate it too. I try to use this mantra - "it keeps the riffraff out, it keeps the riffraff out, it keeps the riffraff out.." or the ever popular "at least its not too windy".You wouldn't want to live in a warm place with too many people, would you? I mean, there's always ice fishing... |
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@ 12:34 am (GMT) |
Paul LevermanRe: Not muchLOL, Mark. You are so right on the mark.I tried ice fishing once. Just once. Only once. Never again. In contrast to your "at least it's not too windy" remark, it was so windy you couldn't stand up. The snow that used to be on the lake had blown off and on it's way, it polished the ice to near perfection. So as we were laying on the ice trying to look down the hole for some stupid fish, the wind kept pushing us away. I made my way back into the bush, out of the wind, lit a fire, had lunch and got comfortable and waited until the rest of them figured it out. Buddy of mine had a t-shirt that had a picture of a trucker, standing next to the front tire of his rig taking a leak, snow everywhere, a thermometer that read -40 or something. The caption said: You gotta be tough to stick it out in Prince George. Just today, we broke a piece of 3/8" plate like it was glass. Took the corner right off of it. I feel sorry for Bryan, I think they are getting it worse than we are. |
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