I've spent the past few days alone in a small hut located at the 4030 foot elevation (1228 meters) of the highest mountain in Vermont. Last night the wind gusted to 102 mph (164 km/hr) and the temperature dropped to -32 degrees F (-35C). The effective windchill temperature falls off my chart. Yesterday's high temperature here was -24 degrees F (-31C).

The water is frozen, the inkpens are frozen...nothing seems to work. Even the large VHF television transmitter I maintain barely started this morning and it's still running at reduced power. Last night I slept in my sleeping bag fully dressed and wearing my winter parka...and yet still I froze. Not that I could sleep anyway with the hut wall next to my head literally humming from the wind velocity. In my past 16 years of living and working here it's never felt this cold.

Is it warm where you live? If so, could you tell me what it f f f feels like?

Michael

Ummm excuse me for asking, but why are you even there? Work? Time away and alone? Experiencing the wilderness? And errrr how is the computer working in that hut (if you're still there that is)? If you're not, nevermind on that question.. lol

And I think it might be cruel to tell you what the weather is like here at the moment. But what the hell :D.

It's hot, very hot and very humid to the point of being almost steamy outside. If I could move into my fridge or freezer I would at the moment. I almost envy you your cold. It's hot enough that even a cold shower feels too warm. I'm living with all windows and doors open with ceiling fans on high in the hope of catching a breeze. However in the late afternoon a sea breeze blows in giving us some tiny respite, until that too dies down and we end up being hot and steamy again. I find myself living for the next morning where I can go for a swim in an ocean that also feels as tepid as my cold shower.

There, that's what it's like where I am :D. Sorry if that was mean... hehehe

Oh man its stinking hot here. I have to put frozen bottles of water in my fish tank to stop them from boiling.
I sleep with my windows wide open and a fan on my nude carcass and I still sweat like a fucking pig. After I get out of a cold shower I'm sweating before I start brushing my teeth. Sometimes it feels like I'm going to suffocate from the humidity as well, you could go crazy, you just want to run away but there's no where to go, everywhere is like being locked in a sauna.
Tap water comes out warm, I need to go to the refridgerator to get a cold drink so frequently that nothing in the fridge stays cold because I keep letting stinking hot air in there.
I'd go for a swim at the beach but the water is just as hot, its like having a bath. It and the river act like a heat regulator for my city, so it stays insanely hot all night and all day.

Still, I think I'll stay here rather than go where you are, fuck me, that sounds awful.
The place I grew up would get cold as in the winter, I'd sleep in all clothes and under five thick blankets and with a beanie on and I'd wake up with a freezing face.
And I used to have to play rugby at 6 in the morning in bare feet in the middle of winter(as a little kid), looking back that was some crazy cruel and unusual punishment. You're feet would freeze off and the phyical activity wouldn't warm you up because you were too cold to get started. I remember getting home and sitting in front of a heater with an uncontrolable shiver, chattering teeth and blue lips and I wouldn't warm up for hours.
Tempereture extremes suck. There's no such thing as cold where I live now thank god, maybe 2 weeks in the year when you could tolerate a sweater.
I think i hate cold more than heat which is a big call in the middle of summer. Usually I hate whatever I'm suffering from at the time, but the memories of cold really hurt.

Lou, you sound as though you live where I live lol...

God damn heat is driving me insane out here. Not to mention that my hair is now approaching an afro thanks to the humidity :(. Curls and humid weather are not a good mix.

And like you I too grew up in a place where the temperature would vary dramatically, sometimes even in a matter of hours. It would sometimes get to the point where it'd be stinking hot when you walk into a supermarket and you walk out in 30 minutes and the temperature would have dropped so dramatically you'd start to shiver until the rush to the car and switch the aircon over onto heating. One of the reasons why I moved to where I am at the moment. However, at the moment I'd soooo like a cool change to come through and tame this heat and humidity :(. The rain we've had for the past 2 days has only made it hotter and even more humid if that was even possible.



:eek:

Bells wrote;

Ummm excuse me for asking, but why are you even there?
I spend half my week up here working for a television station. Tonight another guy will arrive on a snowmobile. He gets to stay here for a few days while I ride that snowmobile 8km down the ski slope to the base of the mountain. Of course there's no way my car is going to start...

This computer is about the only thing working properly at the moment. The IBM Selectric typewriter that I type my station logs on shows no sign of life when I strike a key.

...where I can go for a swim in an ocean that also feels as tepid as my cold shower.
OMG, that sounds so inviting. Thankyou Bells. Please think of me when you go for that swim.

Hey Dr. Lou,
My thanks to you as well. I'm trying to envision what it would feel like to wake up nude in some place with palm trees. I'm trying to remember what it feels like to walk across warm sand and feel it squish between my toes.

Thanks for the warm thoughts,
Michael

Bells-
Our posts were nearly exactly the same, i swear I didn't see yours untill after i posted as well.
And yes the rain over the past few days HAS just made it more humid.
Do you live in southeast queensland by any chance? Or worse like north queensland? I can't imagine how bad that would be in the summer.

Orthogonal-
its pretty shit right now, You'd want out after a day or 2, but yeah it will be nice soon when it cools down just a little, will still be hot

Lou
Yes I do live in Southeast QLD:D

orthogonal
I'm trying to remember what it's like to be or feel cold. I actually love the snow... adore it. Used to go skiing most years when I lived in Melbourne. I miss that now that I live in a place so far from the winter snow lol. And sleeping nakey with fan on and palm trees outside the windows is not what it's cracked up to be. It's hot and even though one sleeps nakey, one still wakes up sweating.

But I shall think of you as I dive into the surf tomorrow :D



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These extremes remind me of the fable about a dim-witted guy standing with one leg in a bucket of ice water and the other in a bucket of boiling water; all the while thinking he'll be comfortable somewhere between his legs.

M ;)

Orthonogal...
Why doesn't the TV station install a proper heating system?

hells yea orthogonal. It is fuckin freezin in Ny. It is like -25 deg. today :mad:
But the good thingis that i missed2daysof school :D

I've spent the past few days alone in a small hut located at the 4030 foot elevation (1228 meters) of the highest mountain in Vermont. Last night the wind gusted to 102 mph (164 km/hr) and the temperature dropped to -32 degrees F (-35C). The effective windchill temperature falls off my chart. Yesterday's high temperature here was -24 degrees F (-31C).


J

The water is frozen, the inkpens are frozen...nothing seems to work. Even the large VHF television transmitter I maintain barely started this morning and it's still running at reduced power. Last night I slept in my sleeping bag fully dressed and wearing my winter parka...and yet still I froze. Not that I could sleep anyway with the hut wall next to my head literally humming from the wind velocity. In my past 16 years of living and working here it's never felt this cold.

Is it warm where you live? If so, could you tell me what it f f f feels like?

Michael



Here's a image of where I live. It was 80 degrees F here yesterday as well as today. I'm in Key West Florida! Hope this sends some sun your way.

you lucky son of a bitch. :( Why are you taunting us people who live in cold places. :mad:

I'm located in southwestern Ontario where the high for today is -18, without the inclusion of wind chill. I can remember when there was no snow on the ground whatsoever about a month ago. During that time I complained that it was too warm with no snow or ice to snowboard or play hockey, and now it's just too damn cold!

hehehe... sucked in :D


:eek:

i know...curses

Hey tablariddim,

The problem isn't so much with the heater but with the building. The big oil-fired heater hasn't turned off since I came on-duty, yet under these conditions it's little better than the proverbial "candle in the wind." An article that appeared in last winter's Yankee Magazine, described this hut as "the MIR spacecraft fallen to earth." This place really is a time-capsule from the 1950's.

However, everything here is going to be demolished next summer and replaced with a new and much larger high definition television station (HDTV). As you might imagine, I have mixed feelings about it. I won't miss having to chase porcupines out of the microwave room in the summer or shivering as I did last night. Still, nearly everything about this place has some significance to me. For example, I remember once crawling under this very desk during a particularly bad electrical storm. Another time, as I was sitting here one quiet evening with a book in-hand, a shrew ran up my pants leg. You should have seen me dance. Looking over at the kitchen table I remember the time when my coworker and friend ate a full bowl of breakfast cereal before he realized that the little rasins were actually mouse turds. Well, I'd better stop before I get too nostalgic. I'll be both happy and sad to see this place go.

Hey cosmic - that hammock on the beach looks so nice about now...

Michael

Here, we had a couple of weeks of cold and a good dollop of rain. Presently, lows of 9c, highs of 18, sunny with clouds. Spring's already begun.

orthogonal.........You say "Hey cosmic - that hammock on the beach looks so nice about now..."

Why thanks, I like it too. It is a nice place to relax during the day or night. :)

the cold dark days of winter has just begun...MUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :D

For some great boots try this place:

http://www.ecowool.com/sheepskin-boots

I dont know what posessed me to do this but today I went snowboarding... I swear every inch on my body felt numb. It's pretty cold here (TO,Canada) but it's been colder. My cousin's heater broke and I pitty her (but not as much as the guy that lives at the top of the mountain). I think us Canadians are just so dumb most of the time that despite the disgustingly cold weather we still go out there and have some innocent fun. Well maybe not innocent, I smashed into a fence today. Eek :eek: Can't wait till I go again! :)

Nice boots cosmic. Take a look at my Steger moosehide mukluks. They're incredibly warm; they allow your foot to flex (which helps circulate blood), and they're as comfortable as a pair of well-worn bedroom slippers. Expensive, but worth every cent.

http://www.mukluks.com/arctic.shtml

Michael

Nice boots cosmic. Take a look at my Steger moosehide mukluks. They're incredibly warm; they allow your foot to flex (which helps circulate blood), and they're as comfortable as a pair of well-worn bedroom slippers. Expensive, but worth every cent.

http://www.mukluks.com/arctic.shtml

Michael


They even look better than the UGG boots although they both will keep your feet warm.
:)

Oh joy! I'm getting a little annoyed with this cold weather. I don't mind the cold as much as I mind the wind though. -30 is fine, as long as there ain't a wind.

http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_stuff/cold.jpg

http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_stuff/cold2.jpg

ummm.. where i live for about the past couple weeks it has been anywhere from the warmest -27 C (which is lots colder in F) and I think the coldest was about -50 C or -55 C ... i don't think anything was moving then except the bitter cold wind

You both need a vacation, come to Key West and thaw out! :)

sure! give me the credit card # and I'm on the next flight!

right......... :D

Hrrrm...well, I have mediocre temperature here. Nothing like that hammock cosmictraveler's been sitting in, but nothing like that hut that orthogonal's been stuck in. :bugeye:

Well, think warm thoughts. :)

Think warm thoughts. Hmmm... yes that was what I was thinking the other day when my car got stuck in a foot and a half of snow. I think I forgot about the warm thoughts when I remembered someones long forgotten-August-given advice: Buy A Shovel. I was outside my car for at least half an hour trying to dig out my car with my window scraper. There are people in their apartment buildings laughing at me- and I'm in my car yelling at them to 'buy a TV!' - but I am sure that it was an amusing site- especially when i tried to push my car in neutral (I am prolly 105 lb girl) -cars are a lot heavier than they look!
-now can someone please remind me to go buy a shovel?

ihavenoname083......GO AND BUY A SHOVEL

im thinking about just going outside someones house cause almost every house has them right near their doors- heh heh.... but I'll probably just go buy one