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niceguy2005 -> RE: THE THREAD!!! (7/11/2008 4:52:31 PM)
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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
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ORIGINAL: Mynok
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going outside at the height of unpleasantness in (say) Houston on a bad day isn't going to literrally kill you in 10 minutes like going out on a bad day in winter (say, during a cold day when the wind is blowing)... or if it doesn't kill you, you can get permanent damage due to frostbite.
Well, heat would kill you too if it got that much hotter than our body temperatures as it gets colder. 30 below is 128 degrees different from our body temperatures.....know what happens at 228 degrees? [:'(]
Yet I can survive 30 below with just some good clothing. I'd need a specially designed suit to handle 228.
Nope, we are much better suited to handle cold than heat.
The point is - it doesn't GET to be 130 deg F over body temperature outside... we are talking weather here, not volcanoes! [:'(]
And even with good clothing, when the wind blows when it is that cold - forget it... only option is to stay in shelter (inside, preferably, or in a car in an emergency, although lots of folks tend to die when they get stuck in their cars during something like that...)
Question for Threadsters: what is the coldest place you've lived for 1 year or more??
My personal answer: Syracuse, NY - which i think is colder than Niagara Falls (which is N of Buffalo)... certainly gets more snow than Buffalo... worst winter i had was in Connecticut (it was normally not too bad, but that was the worst winter for the area in recorded history).
It can get darn close to 130 in AZ in the summer. Single hottest hour I spent was at the air base outside of Phoenix (forget the base name). They marched us cadets out onto the tarmac in flight suits and mid-day and stood us at attention. Two cadets passed out from the heat.
The coldest place I've ever lived was here in CO, but that's not saying much as my other homes were Houston, DC and LA.
I wasn't there a year, but I'll agree with Mr. Twain. The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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