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Re: Tales of Extreme Cold
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02/05/21 08:55 PM
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Fort Leonard Wood Mo . Winter of 69-70. Wind never stopped. Wooden WWII barracks. No insulation. Coal heat. I was 12B (Combat Engineer) training. All of it was outdoors. Don't think I got warm the entire time I was there. Took Vietnam training in 2' of snow. Went from there straight to Vietnam. Brutal cold to brutal heat. That was one hell of a senior high school trip. Went to basic at Fort Lost in the Woods. We were billeted in steel quonset huts with no heat. We left in October and it was cold as heck. I can’t imagine being there through the winter. Thank you for your service. My son got back from there just before Christmas and he said he was never going back to Missouri in the wintertime again lol!
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
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Re: Tales of Extreme Cold
[Re: Geno]
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02/05/21 09:28 PM
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Ant67
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Great lakes naval training center boot camp graduation. That weekend we all had a three day leave. The temp got down to insanity level late Friday and word went out that the base would be shut down until further notice - no one on or off. Knowing what was coming and before I could be officially notified, I packed my bag in my BEQ, tossed it out the window, climbed down three stories on the outside building face and started hiking my way to the middle of the longest expanse of fence facing the outside world. Tossed my bag over and then climbed the fence. Concertina wire will make a mess out of yer clothes (use the upright). Walked another hundred yards or so to a pay phone and called a cab. In the time between when I left my BEQ and the cab showed (1 hour +/-), I had chilblains on both ears.
The Chicago, IL greater metropolitan area set a new world record for low temp on Sunday of that weekend. January 20, 1985. The wind chill was -78f. . Had to be a woman involved in this story somewhere
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Re: Tales of Extreme Cold
[Re: Ant67]
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02/05/21 09:41 PM
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Geno
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Great lakes naval training center boot camp graduation. That weekend we all had a three day leave. The temp got down to insanity level late Friday and word went out that the base would be shut down until further notice - no one on or off. Knowing what was coming and before I could be officially notified, I packed my bag in my BEQ, tossed it out the window, climbed down three stories on the outside building face and started hiking my way to the middle of the longest expanse of fence facing the outside world. Tossed my bag over and then climbed the fence. Concertina wire will make a mess out of yer clothes (use the upright). Walked another hundred yards or so to a pay phone and called a cab. In the time between when I left my BEQ and the cab showed (1 hour +/-), I had chilblains on both ears.
The Chicago, IL greater metropolitan area set a new world record for low temp on Sunday of that weekend. January 20, 1985. The wind chill was -78f. . Had to be a woman involved in this story somewhere She was the best. Terry.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
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Re: Tales of Extreme Cold
[Re: Tree Dweller]
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02/05/21 10:20 PM
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I think it was 1980 a few days after Christmas it got down to -5 in Jackson County and stayed that cold for several days. I was camping in a tiny, cold cabin on Miller Mt in PRV. I didn't own good clothes back then. It was brutal trying to hunt, not only miserable cold but no animals were moving, we didn't see any deer, squirrels , rabbits , nothing. I've hunted in -20 temps in Canada and wasn't nearly as cold as that week. Anyone who says "this is Alabama, it don't get cold" is a liar!
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: Tales of Extreme Cold
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02/05/21 10:49 PM
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We had some cold weather in WV. It was probably in 1977 when about a foot of snow was on the ground. A warm front came through and turned the snow all wet. Then a cold front came behind it and froze it. You could walk on top of the foot deep snow without going through. Other times it would be 10-15 below 0 and horn buttons in the car would shrink up and cause the horn to go off. If you had a stick-shift, it was hard as heck to move the shifter. And of course the cows would have their calves at the farthest most end of the meadow to drop. Once in awhile, we brought the calf into the kitchen to warm them up........even put some JD in their mouth to get them going. But when I went TDY from NC to England, we'd stop at Goose Bay Canada for fuel. Goin to the chow hall, I saw them electrical cords at each parking spot. Yikes.
Nathan Carl Goff 19 Sept 2016 - 14 Jan 2017.
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Re: Tales of Extreme Cold
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02/05/21 11:21 PM
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I remember that week in Jackson County. I talked Dad into going hunting. Went up Little Coon Mtn. Sky was blue, no clouds at all but it was snowing. Flakes would just hang in the air like they were floating. Just the moister in the air freezing. I think I lasted till about 8 or 830. Walking back to the truck I couldn’t feel my feet.
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Re: Tales of Extreme Cold
[Re: Tree Dweller]
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02/06/21 03:11 AM
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Auburn AL without heat will freeze a toiliet in the winter. Ask me how my pathetic ass knows? I hit rock bottom in a trailer in AU. Kinda interesting story now come to think of it.
Been here long enough to go from "bring 'da pain" to " bring 'da pain meds.
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Re: Tales of Extreme Cold
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02/06/21 06:40 AM
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Those are some great stories!!!
"The struggle you're in today, is developing the strength you need for tomorrow."
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Re: Tales of Extreme Cold
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02/06/21 07:17 AM
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I have a friend that went wherever it is you Musk Ox hunt. He has a picture of a bottle of jack Daniel’s open and turned upside down. The jack is frozen in the bottle. He did shoot a musk ox but said the cold was awful. Damn... That would have to be at least -17 degrees.
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Re: Tales of Extreme Cold
[Re: Tree Dweller]
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02/06/21 07:36 AM
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I've been extremely cold lots of times and hated it each and every time. This is but one story...
Boot camp. Parris Island. February. 1980.
We were all sleeping comfortably in our bunks in 2nd battalion and suddenly the DI's bust in and start throwing garbage cans, slamming stuff around, yelling for everyone to get up and get online. Of course we did, as fast as we could, wondering what time it was and what the hell was going on. Well during the night, it had snowed outside and it was in the 20's. Staff Sargent Bayless informed us that at about 0200 we were going to go out in the snow and "play."
So off we went in a orderly fashion in nothing but our skivvies, into the snow and out to an infamous place known as the "Rose Garden" to perform a little early morning Physical Training. I think the main thing that I remember was feeling like my feet were going to simply freeze off despite the bends and thrusts, push-ups, jumping jacks, etc...
The sadistic Drill Instructors must have known precisely how long they could leave us out there in the snow and 20 degree weather in our underwear without pieces of our bodies breaking off, because just about the time I thought I might die, they told us to stand back up to attention and the marched us all back inside to make up our bunks and get ready for another glorious day at Parris Island.
Not the coldest weather I had ever been in, but definitely the coldest I can ever remember feeling.
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Re: Tales of Extreme Cold
[Re: mike35549]
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02/06/21 10:21 AM
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Being on the flight line for a 12 hour shift, in northern MI with a wind chill of 40-45 below 0. Coldest I have ever been in my life. I don’t ever again want to live farther north than I do right now. Was that at Wurtsmith?
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Re: Tales of Extreme Cold
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02/06/21 10:25 AM
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hunterturf
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We had a small 40 ac close to the house we used to hunt. Dad had put a small enclosed shooting house with 1 window watching a gas powerline. I was old enough to hunt by myself but not drive and it’s the first place I remember ever seeing / using a portable propane heater. It was early to mid December (the rut ) and my dad dropped me off to hunt before daylight on his way to work and my mom was going to come get me at 10am. I vividly remember questioning him when he said don’t wear a lot of clothes bc u will be miserable, it’s a small stand and a heater. Just wear a light jacket, jeans and boots. Well..... I couldn’t get the heater to light And the colder my hands got I couldn’t even get the cigarette lighter to make a flame to keep attempting to start the heater. I guess I was born with arthritis in my hands Bc they quit working at all and my knees wouldn’t work right to walk. Without a question, the coldest I’ve ever been. Mom thought I was drunk or high from the propane heater when I walked up to get in the car. Dad laughed his ass off when he got home from work.
Give me bout 15 more minutes, I was dreamin about beavers.......... Si Robertson
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