17 thoughts on “I Don’t Need To Be Anywhere That Fucking Bad”
Was in a college dorm when temps went from 60’s to 20’s within a couple of hours.
Heavy snow blowing horizontally due to high winds, rain turning to ice on the sidewalks outside.. There was a partial blackout as the storm raised havoc with the power grid. Watched a few people try to get from the dorm to the cafeteria, and see them being blown back up against the dorm – so I went to the basement to take the tunnel to the cafeteria. Dorm still had lights, the tunnel did not. No problem – I started walking through the tunnel and got partway when I heard the door behind me opening. Turned to see two gals peering suspiciously into the darkness. One said let’s turn back, so of course I called out “Why?”. The voice from the darkness sent them screaming back into the dorm.
Oh hell, that was just a typical winter day in South Dakota… you had to learn to park your car there when the wind was really blowing, so you can open your door so it didn’t slam forward to the fender or slam back and break your leg… In South Dakota the wind blew, in Nebraska it sucked.
In North Dakota, Montana sucks and Minnesota blows. Same principle, apparently.
And you NEVER opened up the doors on your car on the opposite sides simultaneously. The lee side person is the LAST person to get in.
Ask me how I know
The same principles apply while getting into or out of a car in Kansas.
I lived in Michigan for 18 months. They had big, healthy trees that blew over in 20 mph winds. Strangest thing I had ever witnessed. It was also interesting to watch people try to walk in the gust up to 30 to 40 mph. More than one of them was hysterical. And I was loving it—finally a breeze!
So. Cal. guy here. My 1st duty station was McConnell AFB, Wichita, KS. Spent 3 winters there, been in wind like that. We had a guy from Cali. die in the dorm parking lot, lost 100ft away during a white out. Took 3 days to recover his body.
The motto “Be Prepared” is no joke in Kansas. You may go into work in shirt sleeves and come out to a sideways blowing snow with wind chills in the -50 range. Doesn’t happen often, but about the time you get complacent Ol’ Mama Nature will rise up and remind you who is boss.
Pops out at the Air Patch one time rescued a crew that was picking trash. Whoever took them out drove off and left them. The weather changed, and they weren’t dressed for it. He loaded them up, hauled them back to the shop, and made a phone call.
True a lot of places. I’m always seeing idiots (usually young ones) who jump in a car in winter wearing no jacket, sometimes in shorts, thinking “I’ll be warm–the car has a heater”.
Just what do they think will happen in a wreck or breakdown?
I remember as a kid jumping off a haystack with jacket held open in 60 mph winds. Lots of fun.
My wandering job life led to a place in North Carolina where everyone got excited when the winds got over 5 mph, and rains typically fell straight down.
Southern Alberta Praries. We are -36C right now, 60km/hr winds which are slower than the other day and drifts 6 feet tall on the north side of the fence.
In December 86 I was pulling a 4 week temporary duty in Fairbanks Alaska. The warmest it got was -30. I saw a bottle of Jack Daniels explode because it was placed too close to the wall and froze. It was 85 degrees in the center of the barracks and -5 at the wall. After the first night I slept with my feet in the center of the barracks and I wore a watch cap while sleeping in my bunk pulled about a foot off the wall where it was 30 to 40 degrees. Miserable times in the military.
Bjorn: ya Sven, ve gotten to ze bottom of ze glogg
Sven: ya Bjorn, yust a moment, I gleg anuter bottle, ….
Maybe you should layoff that stuff.
It is affecting your speech.
No wind here atm where I live in central Alberta but its -20 F and dropping overnite and this cold is heading south and east into your country just in time for Christmas. Enjoy 🙂
Its much colder and windy overlooking the drumheller valley.
I know if I take my broom, I can make it
Looks like a curling 🥌 broom. If it was played under those conditions I would absolutely consider it an Olympic sport
Was in a college dorm when temps went from 60’s to 20’s within a couple of hours.
Heavy snow blowing horizontally due to high winds, rain turning to ice on the sidewalks outside.. There was a partial blackout as the storm raised havoc with the power grid. Watched a few people try to get from the dorm to the cafeteria, and see them being blown back up against the dorm – so I went to the basement to take the tunnel to the cafeteria. Dorm still had lights, the tunnel did not. No problem – I started walking through the tunnel and got partway when I heard the door behind me opening. Turned to see two gals peering suspiciously into the darkness. One said let’s turn back, so of course I called out “Why?”. The voice from the darkness sent them screaming back into the dorm.
Oh hell, that was just a typical winter day in South Dakota… you had to learn to park your car there when the wind was really blowing, so you can open your door so it didn’t slam forward to the fender or slam back and break your leg… In South Dakota the wind blew, in Nebraska it sucked.
In North Dakota, Montana sucks and Minnesota blows. Same principle, apparently.
And you NEVER opened up the doors on your car on the opposite sides simultaneously. The lee side person is the LAST person to get in.
Ask me how I know
The same principles apply while getting into or out of a car in Kansas.
I lived in Michigan for 18 months. They had big, healthy trees that blew over in 20 mph winds. Strangest thing I had ever witnessed. It was also interesting to watch people try to walk in the gust up to 30 to 40 mph. More than one of them was hysterical. And I was loving it—finally a breeze!
So. Cal. guy here. My 1st duty station was McConnell AFB, Wichita, KS. Spent 3 winters there, been in wind like that. We had a guy from Cali. die in the dorm parking lot, lost 100ft away during a white out. Took 3 days to recover his body.
The motto “Be Prepared” is no joke in Kansas. You may go into work in shirt sleeves and come out to a sideways blowing snow with wind chills in the -50 range. Doesn’t happen often, but about the time you get complacent Ol’ Mama Nature will rise up and remind you who is boss.
Pops out at the Air Patch one time rescued a crew that was picking trash. Whoever took them out drove off and left them. The weather changed, and they weren’t dressed for it. He loaded them up, hauled them back to the shop, and made a phone call.
True a lot of places. I’m always seeing idiots (usually young ones) who jump in a car in winter wearing no jacket, sometimes in shorts, thinking “I’ll be warm–the car has a heater”.
Just what do they think will happen in a wreck or breakdown?
I remember as a kid jumping off a haystack with jacket held open in 60 mph winds. Lots of fun.
My wandering job life led to a place in North Carolina where everyone got excited when the winds got over 5 mph, and rains typically fell straight down.
Southern Alberta Praries. We are -36C right now, 60km/hr winds which are slower than the other day and drifts 6 feet tall on the north side of the fence.
In December 86 I was pulling a 4 week temporary duty in Fairbanks Alaska. The warmest it got was -30. I saw a bottle of Jack Daniels explode because it was placed too close to the wall and froze. It was 85 degrees in the center of the barracks and -5 at the wall. After the first night I slept with my feet in the center of the barracks and I wore a watch cap while sleeping in my bunk pulled about a foot off the wall where it was 30 to 40 degrees. Miserable times in the military.
Bjorn: ya Sven, ve gotten to ze bottom of ze glogg
Sven: ya Bjorn, yust a moment, I gleg anuter bottle, ….
Maybe you should layoff that stuff.
It is affecting your speech.
No wind here atm where I live in central Alberta but its -20 F and dropping overnite and this cold is heading south and east into your country just in time for Christmas. Enjoy 🙂
Its much colder and windy overlooking the drumheller valley.
I know if I take my broom, I can make it
Looks like a curling 🥌 broom. If it was played under those conditions I would absolutely consider it an Olympic sport
Was that one of those curling brooms?