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Effing weather

Photon440 said:
I know from working at CN that steel is a lot more brittle when cold. There is a lot more track breakage and wheel damage in winter.
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When I worked at one of the mines north of here we would watch the poor buggers on the tire crew change tires an haul trucks at minus forty. These were in some cases ten foot tall tires that weighed a few tons. Changing them out in the open, in the constant darkness at minus forty. Sockets split, extensions break, wrenches snap, lug nuts and studs snap. Air hoses won’t uncoil and then break. Air fittings don’t work.
It looked worse then hell.
 
Yup, looks like winter decided to show up. Doesn't look like it's going to get above 0 f for at least a week.
 
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Ironbuilt said:
WOW!!! That is so interesting that it's expensive to live where there's so much land. I find America to be the opposite, land is much more expensive where there is none. Some areas defy that rule, parts of Wyoming, Montana, etc., where mountain views and wildlife abound.
What is the main nationality there, Natives?
Please post a few pictures of the area if available. I totally envisioned a frozen tundra all year long.
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Here’s a few pix as I moved around town this morning. The first are of the ice road. There’s lots of them up here. There’s actually a gravel road on top of the bank to the left but we drive on the ice because it’s smoother. The ice is probably four or five feet thick but it’s flexible. When a semi truck goes by you go up and down on a wave and the ice creaks and pops. Some of the ice roads on the larger lakes can be more then eighty miles long and take five hours to cross. The speed limit is very strictly enforced.
In the one photo the Jeep door is open because the weatherstripping is frozen like steel and when you slam the door it just bounces. You have to hold the door shut until the latch slowly grabs because the grease is so still from the cold.
The gravel area in the one photo is called the approach. It’s the most dangerous spot. As you drive you generate a wave. If you drive so fast that you catch the wave peak the ice can shatter and you go through. If you are going too fast at the approach the wave hits the shore, bounces back and when it hits the next wave coming in the ice shatters. Most deaths happen at the approach.
 
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These shots are looking across the big lake. It’s a hundred miles across at this point and four hundred and fifty miles wide. At over two thousand feet deep it is the deepest in North America.
The ships are for hauling freight down the Mackenzie River to the high arctic. Some are being serviced over the winter, some of the old ones date to WWII or earlier and are being cut for scrap. Over the one ship you can see sort of a rainbow. The moisture in the air freezes and the sunlight reflects off of it. Some can be very bright but it’s been so cold here lately that there’s not much moisture left in the air to freeze.
The airplanes are still used to fly freight. We are one of the few areas that still use piston engine aircraft but there’s fewer and fewer ad avgas is getting hard to find. Some of the planes date to WWII and at least one was used at D Day.
The cat picture is the cat I brought back from Mexico playing in the snow. My Canadian cats won’t go out in the cold but the Mexican loves the snow.
 
Sahara said:
View attachment 1064869 View attachment 1064868 View attachment 1064867 View attachment 1064865 These shots are looking across the big lake. It’s a hundred miles across at this point and four hundred and fifty miles wide. At over two thousand feet deep it is the deepest in North America.
The ships are for hauling freight down the Mackenzie River to the high arctic. Some are being serviced over the winter, some of the old ones date to WWII or earlier and are being cut for scrap. Over the one ship you can see sort of a rainbow. The moisture in the air freezes and the sunlight reflects off of it. Some can be very bright but it’s been so cold here lately that there’s not much moisture left in the air to freeze.
The airplanes are still used to fly freight. We are one of the few areas that still use piston engine aircraft but there’s fewer and fewer ad avgas is getting hard to find. Some of the planes date to WWII and at least one was used at D Day.
The cat picture is the cat I brought back from Mexico playing in the snow. My Canadian cats won’t go out in the cold but the Mexican loves the snow.
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While you are Showing these COOL pictures.. we just had a blast of cold air come this way and a complete white out.. -19 here without the wind.. Brrr
 
Clear the Big Lake, breakout the CCMs & Bauers and don the jerseys fellas!! Get the future NHLers (youngsters) out there and GAME ON!! Oh thats right, cant, COVID restictions!!! Can COVID survive those temps (what is celcius?) while playing HOCKEY?
 
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As I type this it’s-42 without wind, even colder then they predicted. Wife got called into work, fortunately the car started.
It’s so cold that just your pants touching your legs is painful, like when you touch dry ice.
 
Thanks Sahara, makes me glad to be not there in winter. :) This is ours, pretty mild.
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Says 59* on the weather report,
but it's all of 65* here, not uncommon for here
probably be shitty soon enoungh

I had that shitty 'effing weather' the week before & early last week
feet of snow as in plural

screw that **** :BangHead:, the older I get the less I like it
I hate shoveling snow or the **** it ruins
but love the lifestyle up here, 125+ miles away from the crazy's :bananadance:
 
Sahara said:
Either one; they are the same at -40 then Celsius gets worse.
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Honestly living here in Mexico and we use Celsius scale can't imagine a minus 40 Celsius, not even my fridge is that cold, take care brother, yes am aware of the restrictions of your government, my offer to you still stand this year and please take care of Chika your mexican cat.
 
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Ironbuilt said:
Sounds a bit like the UK.
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???? You can buy all the land you want here (expensive mind....especially if it has permission to build on)......but if you want to buy woodland or just green acres and get planning permission for a house....no problem......none is owned by the Crown.

Some of the temperatures mentioned on here are pretty scary to a moderate climate dweller like me....heating bills must be scary. You must be able to buy some very good winter clothing there too!!
 
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