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To: knarf

LOL.
You’ve never been to Minot North Dakota.
Used to have to go out on the flightline there when it was -69 and up (-70 was when they halted work except for brief shifts of a few minutes each by essentials...that was for the humans, they pulled the security police dogs off the line when it was only -30)

And I went out there to the alert facilities in uniform, which was a skirt and stockings. No fatigues or pantsuits for women back then, those came later. Lucky my boss let me keep bluejeans in my desk to wear to and from the parking lot.

Just cover up and keep a source of heat going. Some folks survived stranded in their cars during a 2 day blizzard by having a candle to burn when the gas ran out.


62 posted on 01/07/2014 4:02:55 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf

Is that a silver oak leaf?


70 posted on 01/07/2014 4:21:45 AM PST by billhilly (Has Pelosi read it yet?)
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To: silverleaf

A few years back we had a young USAF exchange officer fly out from some frozen hellhole in Alaska where the temp was around -40F and arrived in Sydney where the temp was 101F.

Poor bugger nearly carked it from thermal shock.

Oh, and for the curious, tomorrow in Canberra we are expecting a low of 46F and a high of 77F.

I also have to admit to never having seen snow up close. The closest I’ve been is seeing a very light dusting of white on a mountain about 20 miles away that melted by mid afternoon.


73 posted on 01/07/2014 4:27:03 AM PST by Dundee (They gave up all their tomorrows for our today's.)
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