Astro: Is it quiet on here??

Not exactly. It may sound like fun to those who haven't experienced it
but it kills several every year who feel as you do. Last one died just
down the road from me last week. His buddy was going to take the car the
half mile to the mail box. He called the guy a sissy. Put on his
snowmobile gear (no helmet unfortunately) and left. He got confused as
hypothermia set it. They found him hours later well off the drive where
he'd wandered "drunk" from a too cold brain. His face, arms and hands
were frozen solid when they found him. He was in his mid 50's and
should have known better.

Rick


Peter Hucker wrote:
Sounds fun to me, apart from the lower quality results of course.

On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:50:15 -0600, Rick Johnson
wrote:


Obviously you haven't used a snow blower to clear a km of road at -36C
I did that last year. 20cm of snow, 8 foot wide road for a km at -36C
is NOT just scraping a windshield. That's no problem at all but have
you stood out at those temps in a 20 km wind guiding an exposure for 1.5
hours. I did that in my film days. That's NOT just scraping a
windshield. When the temp is -35C here the wind chill is more like
-50C. Unexposed skin freezes solid in seconds in those conditions.

Also seeing is awful, least it has been this cold snap.

I had 6" seeing last night 5" tonight. Forget imaging due to seeing alone.

Rick


Peter Hucker wrote:

I don't understand the obsession with temperature people have. Sure,
it's annoying having to scrape the car windscreen, but that's it.

On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:45:06 GMT, "Muttsdanglers"
wrote:



-18!!!! where are you????
It goes to -2 here in sussex in the uk and we moan!!!


Paul


"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
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Muttsdanglers wrote:


All i can see is 11 messages?? Blueyonder has been having a few server
problems but is them or is it just that everyone is outside snapping the
sky??

Paul

Probably, like me, they are under clouds. Full moon is also a pain and I
haven't been above -18C (0F) for 6 days now. And it is snowing. At least
no Florida twisters.

Rick
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