On Wednesday 27 November 2002 08:37, Robert Hemus wrote: - My Mom went to school in Escanaba in the 20's. It got so cold there then - people garaged their cars. Little different technology then. She talked - about walking to school in -20 degrees or more. I'm a native So Californian - living right next to Oregon. - Bob
I lived in Norman Wells NWT (the mid-arctic) for ten years (1975-1985) I thought that being that far north would be a very cold experience, but I was wrong. The constant cold during the winter months results in a total lack of moisture in the air thus the transfer of body heat through your clothes is that much less. I found that anything warmer than a -27 degrees Celcius was a jacket and sweater day but once it hit the minus 30's it was definately time for the arctic wear (parkah, insulated boots etc) Right after Christmas we would get a very very cold two to three weeks but then it would settle down to a balmy -20 something. My wife and I would go camping in mid to late January (snow-mobile) along the Canol pipeline (used during WWII running from Norman Wells to Car Cross Yukon) Once we got into the mountaisn, we found that we had over-dressed for the trip. Never in all the times camping out in the arctic mountains were we ever cold. Yet I can remember freezing my but off in Vancouver B.C. when I was going to high school there. That dang dampness, how do you dress for that? -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1 sent with Kmail 1.4.1 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
