Me and 2 other guys went to skyline bow hunting in 1985, January and high of 10 and wind about 20mph, they said deer would come out right at dark but I found out real fast I didn't have enough cloths on, teeth shattering and it finally got dark and I tried to climb down from treestand and found I had no feeling in my feet, It,s hard to climb down and walk back to truck watching to see where your feet is, I made it back to truck and told them I think I had frostbite and need to go hospital, half way home my feet started getting feeling back and I still remember how that hurt 40 year later.

Had to be a woman involved in this story somewhere

She was the best. Terry.

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.

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!

Upper Maine Paper Mill in February, Paper Mill in Sheldon Springs, VT in January, USS Gary Works in February, IP Mill in International Falls in February. They were all cold but none held a candle to the mill in Northern Finland in February (above article circle). There was probably 3-4’ of snow on the ground and about 3 hours of daylight. It was miserable cold.

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.

I passed on a job install in Alaska during the winter months. The guys that took the Alaska job got a hood kick out of it when I sent them a picture of me the same week that I passed on. The next job that came up for that week was Detroit. I was putting an antenna on a 3rd story roof. I was fortuate enough to have the fire dept put me where I needed to be with a ladder truck so I wasnt out in the elements real long but it was long enough to have 2 to 2.5 inch ice cicles hanging from my beard and mustache. I would take one glove off and work a minsute then swap hands. It was -20 in Alaska and -40 in Detroit.

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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.

I don’t have any stories to compare to y’all’s. But I will say I almost took a civilian job as an engineer in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard back when I was out of grad school. I flew up there to interview, and it all went well till the end of interview. He said, I want you to understand how cold it gets up here. He described that went you walked to such and such building in the winter you will fight your eyelashes freezing to your eyelids. When I landed on the flight home I had a job offer contracting here in Bham.

I called that guy and said sorry I’m not able to to take the position

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.

Wow,.. good stories,.. grew up in Wisconsin if that's all you know you get used to it chipping ice with 3 foot thick on the lake was normal. All we knew,.. then I went in service. And realized there is a whole world . USMC. If any one tells you when your freezing and just go to sleep not true. You might napp for a few minutes but the cold will wake you up. Just keep moving,.
God bless All

Those are some great stories!!!

Damn... That would have to be at least -17 degrees.

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.

I grew up in Western NY in a tiny farm town just a few miles of Lake Ontario. We had many cold days etc but one that sticks out was 30 years ago next month we had the biggest ice storm of my life. It was bizarre for me because it happened a couple of days before I left for basic training. Trees were encased in ice more than 1/4” thick, they looked like crystal, actually pretty amazing looking. Of course my parents had to deal with the damage, loss of power, everything shut down etc. My mind was just focused on getting away from everyone and getting on with my life. I’ve been in Alabama for thirty years this July.

Was that at Wurtsmith?

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.