Feels like -50 C as deep freeze settles on Prairies
Canadian_Mind @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:45 pm
fuck, thats insane. I remember when Ekati was new and the first of its kind.
Hopefully this will cause some people to live up north, could use more people up there just to assert that the place is ours.
sasquatch2 @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:47 pm
ziggy wrote:
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jennybo wrote:
That doesnt happen in the Arctic,even your pee stream will not be frozen before it hits the ground at -40.
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Why not go outside and throw a cup of boiling water into the air....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJyj8JvIs4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJyj8JvIs4
That doesnt happen in the Arctic,even your pee stream will not be frozen before it hits the ground at -40.
Or anywhere else.
I recall a few years back, high wind and -18-20C. Dad's bedroom was on the groundfloor windward side and chilly. I suspected the 3 bricks thick was not as weather tight as advertized.
I hooked the garden hose to the hot water tap in the back laundry and stood outside his window. Bare hands on that nice warm hose was not a problem. I sprayed from 15ft and promptly glazed the side of the house at least 1 cm thick. No water ran off. It was liquid until it hit----whack. The iceman cometh.
After putting stuff away, I investigated and dad said the atmosphere changed the instant he heard the spray hit the window.
ziggy @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:50 pm
Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:
fuck, thats insane. I remember when Ekati was new and the first of its kind.
Hopefully this will cause some people to live up north, could use more people up there just to assert that the place is ours.
Hopefully this will cause some people to live up north, could use more people up there just to assert that the place is ours.
Flint held a thing up in Iqaluit and a couple hundred are going to work in fort mac.
martin14 @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:09 pm
looks like you got one helluva job, man..
looks like fun.. sometimes.. and absolute insanity.. sometimes..
is being absolutely off your rocker a job requirement, or does it just help ?? 
Public_Domain @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:22 pm
hwacker @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:40 pm
Bill_Hicks Bill_Hicks:
Where's the Canadian Military when you need it!?
Oh, they are out policing the anti_war marches.
ziggy @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:54 pm
martin14 martin14:
looks like you got one helluva job, man..
looks like fun.. sometimes.. and absolute insanity.. sometimes..
is being absolutely off your rocker a job requirement, or does it just help ??
looks like fun.. sometimes.. and absolute insanity.. sometimes..
is being absolutely off your rocker a job requirement, or does it just help ??
If you can work where I do and still hack it after a week then you can do anything.
That's why I go back.
ziggy @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:55 pm
Bill_Hicks Bill_Hicks:
Where's the Canadian Military when you need it!?
Sovop?
jennybo @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:08 pm
ziggy ziggy:
jennybo jennybo:
Why not go outside and throw a cup of boiling water into the air....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJyj8JvIs4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJyj8JvIs4
That doesnt happen in the Arctic,even your pee stream will not be frozen before it hits the ground at -40.
Not pee... boiling water... it's different. It turns to steam... then freezes... I think. Grabbing a quote from somewhere:
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When you throw a bucket of boiling water into the air you get a really fine mist, the mist is so fine that it freezes much faster then the larger droplets of cold water since it has a much larger surface area compared to the largish droplets of water you'd get if you used cold water. So the trick is to use water that's as hot as possible.
sasquatch2 @ Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:24 am
My experience with the hose produced no snow just a glaze----losts of steam. Water was about 130 F best estimate.
I recall returning from the North dakota coming through Minnesota, when it was -30 or something. The big thermal plant north of St cloud was going full tilt and its stack gases were drifting west right over I94. When I got to it I reduced speed because the stack gases were precipitating as snow. It was the wierdest, shortest (about 1/4 mile) snow storm I have ever encountered.
BartSimpson @ Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:31 pm
This thread made me realize (and be thankful for) the fact that every time I ever got deployed it was to someplace warm. 
Canadian_Mind @ Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:35 pm
Bill_Hicks Bill_Hicks:
Where's the Canadian Military when you need it!?
fuck you, shovel your own damn roads.
ziggy @ Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:39 pm
Well I was on the road at 1 am,flew to Edmonton and surprise surprise......the airport in Yellowknife was shut down at -46 ambient. So,they flew us back to Calgary and I just got home now,try again friday. 
Not much moving up there,wish they would have booked us in a hotel in Edmonton and I would get to see the mall.
My bud drove me up and by the time he got home I was phoning and telling him to come on back.thats 9 hours driving for him so far. 
Brenda @ Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:42 pm
Bill_Hicks Bill_Hicks:
Where's the Canadian Military when you need it!?
Haha, you're such a pussy that you need the military to do your dirty jobs for ya?
ziggy @ Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:00 pm
After checking the forecast I think I can handle being home for a couple of more days.
$1:
Clear. Wind northwest 30 km/h. Low -43C(-45F). Extreme wind chill -63.
Thursday
Sunny with cloudy periods. Local blowing snow. Wind northwest 40 km/h gusting to 60. High -37C(-35F). Extreme wind chill -62. Thursday night clear. Wind northwest 40 km/h (25 mph) gusting to 60 km/h (37 mph). Low -40C(-40F). Extreme wind chill -57.
Thursday
Sunny with cloudy periods. Local blowing snow. Wind northwest 40 km/h gusting to 60. High -37C(-35F). Extreme wind chill -62. Thursday night clear. Wind northwest 40 km/h (25 mph) gusting to 60 km/h (37 mph). Low -40C(-40F). Extreme wind chill -57.