Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Pining_4_TX

Cold is one thing - playing in LETHAL weather isinsane.

I would note that even the Army has limits as to when soldiers must ‘come inside’ in extreme cold wx. -70.

Doesn’t take much of a breeze to get that cold.


41 posted on 01/20/2008 8:57:27 PM PST by ASOC (The Captain doesn't choose the storm....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies ]


To: ASOC

This was only -4, “felt like” -24 (I’ve never really been fond of the whole “wind chill” measurement, the temperature is the temperature the the temperature was -4... maybe it’s because I’m a sunbelter and “wind heat” when the temperature turns a minor breeze into a giant hairdryer... but I digress), definitely cold, definitely unpleasantly cold, but not lethal. Well OK I suppose a person completely unprepared and unequipped could die in it, but that’s what the equipment guy is for.


46 posted on 01/20/2008 9:02:11 PM PST by discostu (a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson