I liked that show. I am like the radio dude lol
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-26F or -31C here tonight, how cold is it by you?
- Thread starter Stoner4Life
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The_Core
I used to live in North Carolina. Weather was perfect for me. Moved to Europe, its all shit. Like 2 months of nice weather a year. The rest is rain, mud, snow, cold. Take your pick. This winter is really mild where I live but that just means summer is going to suck. If I stay in Europe I am going to move farther south and live somewhere warm or decent.
Shit some of you guys live in pretty extreme weather locations!
Stoner4Life - I've got 'Northern Exposure' TV series in my head...which character are you?
I never could watch that, just couldn't embrace a show that included the miseries of cold weather. Our winter lasts longer than 5 months up here, we usually have about 165 days between first & last killing frosts.
Jeepers!
i did my time in cold places....12 years in alaska...camped out on a -40 night,been outside when it was -72 out....i like the desert now...the 3 weeks of 100 degree days are well worth it being 60 out like it will today...im not even sure if my furnace has come on this year...
you never get used to driving with flat spots on your tires from sitting overnight, I pull right onto a paved highway so then the clunk clunk clunk starts immediately, they usually regain their shape w/in a 1/2 mile or so.
just say no to cold an snow. lol it don't really get that cold here as far as I am concerned definitely not like maine. but it gets fookin hot in summer 115 aint uncommon. luckily I can escape to mountains where its cooler
Herbophile
Member
I'm finishing up my last midnight tonight and it looks to be another cold one. -33F last night and -30F tonight. There wasn't much wind last night so it could have been worse.
I have a bad feeling that we won't be seeing our usual January thaw this year bro, gonna be harsh right through to the spring.
fyi you guys: January thaw is a phenom we almost always get, temps rise above freezing for 7-10 days, it never really tops 36F or so but it's always welcome respite compared to what you see in this thread.
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noyd666
I'm sitting here in t shirt sweating , just cut the lawn, it's 21c with nice chill breeze coming in window, fuck that stoner too cold brrrrrrrr yous'e must love it to stay in that climate.
each summer we might get 3-5 days above 90F, I've looked @ a thousand California properties in the last few years but 3 solid months of above 90 degree days is for the damned birds. You can dress for the cold, but are fucked in the heat.......
Here's what I have that's tough to find nearly anywhere else I'd consider living, fresh crisp clean water via my 65' deep well. It comes out of the ground @ 55F and only requires filtering (it's hard water) to remove calcium before I use it in my coffee maker, I filter w/a PUR pitcher system. I'm never gonna worry about running out of the good stuff; I have deer that walk through my yard every day & night and upland game bird too, fine eating @ my finger tip (my trigger finger tip), and then there's the lakes just full of fish, all within feet not miles from me.
Yeah we put up with some rough weather but in the long run it's all worth it, if it were warmer we wouldn't have tourism as our industry, instead we'd have shitloads of commerce & industrial development and then the housing boom that comes along with that, it would ruin and pollute the natural beauty of the area.
Just south & west of me (40 miles or so) are the headwaters of the Mississippi River, it starts its flow from Lake Itaska where you can literally walk across it as it's only a stream at this point; Long Lk in Itaska state park provides me with legal daily limits of Rainbow trout nearly every time I go. Very close to me is Lake Winnibigoshish in the Chippewa Natl Forest & on the Leech Lake Indian reservation and the same with Leech Lake being both Natl forest & Reservation. These waters are monitored continually for cleanliness, fish populations, water levels (both are huge lakes with dams) and invasive species eradication. Both lakes so big & so close to one another that they effect local weather patterns where rainfall is concerned.
It used to drive me crazy that we were so far from decent and competitive shopping areas where I could find anything I wanted, it was tiring walking into several stores to only find an adequate item instead of my desired choice, or finding my desired item @ a huge markup, but now there's Amazon & the rest of the net for shopping price & selection.
Until a closer theater was recently built it was 80 miles round trip to see a movie, now it's just a 45 mile jaunt, no biggie as there's zero traffic; the only two things to delay driving up here are school buses and freight train crossings, if ya got a slow poke in front of you our roads have loads of passing zones. The distances between towns is usually 5-10-20 miles, sometimes more, it's almost all 2 lane blacktop.
There are 2 McDonalds in Bemidji, then going west on Hwy 2 the next one is 86 miles away, go east on Hwy 2 and you'll find one 65 miles down the road, go south & it's about a 50 mile drive to the next.
Real, real rural. Herbophile will back me up that
We put up with the weather so that we don't have to put up with too many people
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noyd666
under stand for sure stoner, lived and worked 20 years in mining town far away from cities, we had the rivers and sea to ourselves, was a life. ps no bloody bears to worry us lol.
excessive heat and water makes women strip down and get wet. there is an upside . with the 115 f in summer i pretty much live either streamside or in mountains where its cooler lol. way different than sandiego where its temperate all year
Herbophile
Member
I couldn't have said it better S4L. I'm NE of you surrounded by all the holes in the ground but everything you described is the same. Northern MN is a great place to live as long as you can deal with the winter which really isn't as bad as it sounds. Although this winter is exceptionally brutal. Winters here also really make you appreciate spring!!
I also think you are correct S4L that we won't be seeing the January warm up this year. I have mentally prepared myself to live through a Jan and Feb much like we've seen this Dec.
By the way. The forecast for tonight shows -37F. Happy New Year!!
I also think you are correct S4L that we won't be seeing the January warm up this year. I have mentally prepared myself to live through a Jan and Feb much like we've seen this Dec.
By the way. The forecast for tonight shows -37F. Happy New Year!!
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The_Core
Used to be in the Army. Stationed in Germany. We would be doing training at JMTC in the Winter. I know when it hit -25 F my cold weather gear did nothing for me. Well it did, I just felt like it was doing nothing. Fuck winter.
yeah it was -27 the 2 times I started my car this morning @ midnight & 4am. Let it run for 45 minutes each time, kills my good gas mileage but I didn't wanna miss my date with the 5 lobster being held for me in Brainerd. 5 lobster split 3 ways might cause a ruckus later but I'll be the big dog @ the table tonight and stake my claim to an extra tail, Neil & Jim can duke it out over the remaining tail & claws.......
next year the lobster's on me if you can make it down
Happy New Year bro.
Stoner - so what makes you live in such a climate?
sorry Monk, missed this question earlier.
was on the run trying to get away from cocaine, left NY in '88 and landed here while visiting my dad. it seemed like a good place to sober up and stayed, I had no idea what the extreme cold was all about and the challenge suddenly was to stay alive, I spent my 2nd winter here holed up in a well insulated 8'X10' fish house on a lake.
replaced cocaine w/hunting & fishing, a huge part of my sobriety and now it's home.......
was on the run trying to get away from cocaine, left NY in '88 and landed here while visiting my dad. it seemed like a good place to sober up and stayed, I had no idea what the extreme cold was all about and the challenge suddenly was to stay alive, I spent my 2nd winter here holed up in a well insulated 8'X10' fish house on a lake.
replaced cocaine w/hunting & fishing, a huge part of my sobriety and now it's home.......
That's a great story. Would love to hear the extended version some day...
I'll raise a glass to your ongoing sobriety!
Happy New Year
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I'll raise a glass to your ongoing sobriety!
Happy New Year
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hardships reap benefits bro, we have our own ways of getting over it.
