Gun Shots In The Building I Live In!!

[sanmac]

Just kidding. It's just the sound of the I-beams contracting in the cold. Right now it's -27 and going down to -32 by the morning. I haven't heard that sound for 2 or 3 years...So much for global warming! Years ago, when the building first opened, people actually called 911 to report gun shots, and Property-Management had to send memos to all owners to explain the reason for the sound.

[wolf63]

Can you do normal things like walking a dog when it's that cold?
I'm in Scotland and it's zero degrees, it's not too cold.

[sanmac]

I don't have a dog, wolf63, so I really don't know. I would imagine that a short walk would be OK. I feel sorry for all the stray dogs and cats roaming around.

[emmie]

that's freezing, how do you stand it that cold. I would have to find somewhere warmer to live.

[sanmac]

As I said in another thread, emmie, you sort of get used to it. Obviously I don't go out unless I have to. My car is in an underground parking-lot and is warm when I get into it, and I just nip in and out of the stores I'm going to and then head home.

[emmie]

i can understand that sanmac.

[DTCwordfan]

I've been in those temps below - in Montreal in 1980 and, more recently, Minneapolis. On the other extreme, it was Kuwait out at one of their refineries, Minas Abbas, and 50C.....

[Bazile]

sanmac
I've got a job lot of long johns

I can let you have them at cost

[pastafreak]

I remember minus teens temps in NY some winters. If you've grown up in it, you don't notice it so much. And it's dry cold, not wet like here. Of course, there's 95° summers to balance things ;)

[sanmac]

You're right, Pasta, the dryness makes the cold a little more tolerable. Dampness seems to make it feel worse. I get the impression that it's quite damp/humid in the UK since you're a small island completely surrounded by water.

[New Judge]

It's always damp in the winter in the UK. That's why many of us clear off for a couple of weeks to somewhere warm if we can. Whilst it may be pleasant enough occasionally in the summer, winters are dire and depressing. For about the last six weeks I think we've had perhaps two or three days where the Sun could be seen. At present it is raining a fine drizzle which soaks you through if you're out for any length of time. My garden is like a bog, having had enough rain on it in the last few months to fill St Paul's Cathedral. Never mind, if it continues raining for another month or so the water companies may let us water our gardens for a few weeks before they declare a drought.

[pastafreak]

I think I still...after 30+ years here...feel colder at 40° than I would at minus 10. It gets to the bones here...if that's possible.

[Tuvok]

Celcius/Centigrade or Farenheit?

[Mamyalynne]

-27°C

[sanmac]

I visited a friend of mine this morning who lives on the shore of Lake Ontario, and there was a dense layer of "steam" rising up to quite a height from the surface...Something to do with the differences between water, air, and land.

[sanmac]

Temperature differences.