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Post by LucST on Feb 27, 2014 20:52:44 GMT -5
A) Forgot about windchill. B) Never been to Whistler during the winder.
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Post by H2O on Feb 27, 2014 20:56:30 GMT -5
Lucst, we should say all of our non-island friends. The island is a whole different ball game!
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Post by Dennis A(cook1973) on Feb 27, 2014 20:58:32 GMT -5
Your telling me! NL is a island and Toronto is a day drive and their weather and ours and temps are like night and day lol !!
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Post by LucST on Feb 27, 2014 21:03:30 GMT -5
Lucst, we should say all of our non-island friends. The island is a whole different ball game! Right we are more laid back and fun than the main land BC folk.
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Post by dvg on Feb 28, 2014 14:06:40 GMT -5
We had a warm spell in mid January which gave us a some relief from winter.
Tonight in Edmonton, the weather guys are calling for -35C without the wind chill.
Out here in the rural parts, they're saying it could get down to -38 to -40C.
Yikers!!!
March is roaring in like a Lion tonight!
dvg
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Post by Dennis A(cook1973) on Feb 28, 2014 14:26:07 GMT -5
DVG your crying over the cold? without a windchill -15C to -20C is a warm day in NL cause we live on the atlantic ocean and we get the shit it decides to dump on us(I seen it snow in July even!) sure we find it cold but -20C I seen people shoveling snow and had to take off their winter coats! -25C is another story and that usually comes with a windchill lol !!
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Post by Raymond on Feb 28, 2014 16:27:54 GMT -5
Cook1973 be careful with the language we use on the form But now it's Time I join in I went skiing few days ago ... I was warm with like 7 layers but for my friends I think one of them got frostbit on his hands ...He only brought one of his gloves lol ( still didn't wear it ) I think the temps we -38C with 20Km winds something like that This gets you to think... How can you forget gloves on a ski trip well thats my story
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Post by Dennis A(cook1973) on Feb 28, 2014 19:38:29 GMT -5
I would still be laughing at his frostbite lol!!
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Post by Apoplast on Feb 28, 2014 20:15:50 GMT -5
Ah. It's nice to hear that I am not in too rough a climate. I am sorry I take comfort that some of you put up with much more. It was recently pointed out to me by a friend of mine here who is from Toronto that we live in a colder climate that most of the population of Canada. For an American, that's a tough realization. Doug, my deepest sympathies, and I hope spring comes early for you. Stay warm. And to all of you on Vancouver Island, this comes from a place of complete jealously - (that was as close as I could find to a face blowing a raspberry)
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Post by hal on Mar 1, 2014 0:47:15 GMT -5
I worked in a bush camp, looking for gold in northern Ontario for 3 years. About half our time in the winter was spent trying to stop everything from freezing. On really cold nights when it got less than 45 below, the diesel for the generator would gel and it would stop. We'd all wake up in the ensuing silence, watch the Northern Lights for a bit and then try and get the power going again. An experience I fondly remember now and I'm glad I did it, but probably wouldn't try it again. There was a sphagnum bog in front of the camp that was full of S. purpurea and D. rotundifolia and the occasional moose.
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Post by dvg on Mar 1, 2014 16:13:36 GMT -5
I checked the thermometer just outside a back window at 7:00 this morning and the reading was only -32C, so it was probably a couple of degrees cooler due to radiant heat coming off the house window.
But now a 2:00 pm it is up to -23C with little wind and not a cloud in the sky.
Actually kinda nice out there with the sun up a bit higher in the sky and packing more of a punch.
Hal, that sounds like a real experience - were you guys able to haul out much gold up there?
dvg
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Post by hal on Mar 1, 2014 22:37:06 GMT -5
We didn't find much gold at all. The whole venture was a bit of a boondoggle to take advantage of a government program that gave investors huge tax write-offs. Once the program ended the camp shut down pretty quickly. I moved over to another mine where they were actually finding gold. But it was mostly microscopic, scattered through the quartz veins in the rock. I think I saw gold half a dozen times, and the biggest was several flecks, each about the size of a pinhead.
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Post by Apoplast on Mar 2, 2014 22:03:56 GMT -5
Hi Hal - I look forward to your forthcoming guest avatars. And, I just want to state for the record, you clearly have lead a more interesting life that I ever will. I might be okay with that though. Your stories sound like the sort of thing I'd see on Discovery channel these days. That's kind of crazy, from my perspective. I don't know if you were up there in the summer, but saying you were in north Ontario made me think of this song. Hi DVG - -26, I can feel for you there. We've been that low quite frequently this winter. Now -32, that's chilly. We've only hit that once or twice this winter. Please don't confuse my statement about the rarity of those particularly low temps as a complaint. I am usually fine with a solid winter, but this is the first winter in my life that I can say I am ready for spring.
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Post by dvg on Mar 3, 2014 15:54:03 GMT -5
We can pan for gold in the North Saskatchewan River - flour gold mostly, but a few flecks show up in every pan. Folks that can get out regularly in a season can walk away with about 3/4 of an ounce if they are willing to work hard enough. Hi Apoplast, I think most of us are chompin' at the bit for spring to come. The good news is that it is just around the corner and we just have to get through these last few cold spells. dvg
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Post by canuk1w1 on Mar 3, 2014 17:24:44 GMT -5
Let's hope this was this last one. Our furnace conked out on Friday night and was repaired just this afternoon - probably a combination of too many cold days and an old house. Luckily I have baseboards in my grow room and no plants lost. It's unusual to get this cold so late in the season.
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