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Glad I'm not in Grand Forks, ND tonight!
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Foxcow
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ND is a pos state. I go to UND. I was driving on I-29 heading north to Grand Forks the night I had to return (last semester thank god) and my defrost was only able to keep half of the front side windows clear because it was so cold. That night was -31.
The drive is better at night because you can't look at the barren landscape and get depressed because nothing is there.
The drive is better at night because you can't look at the barren landscape and get depressed because nothing is there.
DashTrash400
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Heh...the day I finished my last class at UND, I drove away and didn't look in the rearview mirror, swearing I'd never go back.
My first 1.5 years at UND, I worked on the flight line. We went no-fly at -30 F or -50 F windchill and it happened several days every winter. But god help you if it was -28 with a -48 windchill, you'd be towing the planes out onto the ramp and tieing them down once the wind hit 18 kts (aka: all the freaking time). Used nylon ropes, difficult to tie with gloves on...so you'd take your gloves off and tie the 3 ropes, by which time you can't feel your hands anymore, then jump in the tug and try to warm up for a few minutes before moving on to the next plane...with 70+ planes in the fleet.
Of course, my few years in SoCal really wussified me so now I b!tch about rain and 45d temps in Portland.
My first 1.5 years at UND, I worked on the flight line. We went no-fly at -30 F or -50 F windchill and it happened several days every winter. But god help you if it was -28 with a -48 windchill, you'd be towing the planes out onto the ramp and tieing them down once the wind hit 18 kts (aka: all the freaking time). Used nylon ropes, difficult to tie with gloves on...so you'd take your gloves off and tie the 3 ropes, by which time you can't feel your hands anymore, then jump in the tug and try to warm up for a few minutes before moving on to the next plane...with 70+ planes in the fleet.
Of course, my few years in SoCal really wussified me so now I b!tch about rain and 45d temps in Portland.
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GravityHater
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Coldest I experienced was minus 40C (I think C and F meet near there) - We were SKIING in Quebec at Christmas. We were NUTS (no alcohol involved I swear).
They shut the slopes down when the wind at the top kicked up to about 20 - they said they were afraid the metal cable in the lift would break but I think they just didn't want the outdoor staff to sue them!
We went all the way up there to ski, so by god we were going to ski!
Interestingly the -90 we arrived on, and the airport ops in general seemed to not notice the ridiculous cold.
I am seriously spoiled now, living in a southern state. I was raised, and learned to fly in the north. Sounds like one of those silly 'when I was a kid stories' but it is no bull that I used to get up at 4:30, drive to the airport in my subcompact, start the engine preheater, then commence to shovel snow around the 172 in the dark, deice the wings and heat the cabin. After about an hour, I would pour the engine oil back in, replace the nice warm battery I stored by the furnace all night, and try a start. Usually the plugs frosted over and I would have to pull them and heat them up, finally get a start (this time with the car battery boosting), then replaced the cowl and move all the winter starting detritis out of the way and blast through the drifts to the paved ramp, finish preflighting and deicing, and by then the instructor was ready to go, with hot coffee (for him only) in hand by about 8am!
I was "Dedicated".
They shut the slopes down when the wind at the top kicked up to about 20 - they said they were afraid the metal cable in the lift would break but I think they just didn't want the outdoor staff to sue them!
We went all the way up there to ski, so by god we were going to ski!
Interestingly the -90 we arrived on, and the airport ops in general seemed to not notice the ridiculous cold.
I am seriously spoiled now, living in a southern state. I was raised, and learned to fly in the north. Sounds like one of those silly 'when I was a kid stories' but it is no bull that I used to get up at 4:30, drive to the airport in my subcompact, start the engine preheater, then commence to shovel snow around the 172 in the dark, deice the wings and heat the cabin. After about an hour, I would pour the engine oil back in, replace the nice warm battery I stored by the furnace all night, and try a start. Usually the plugs frosted over and I would have to pull them and heat them up, finally get a start (this time with the car battery boosting), then replaced the cowl and move all the winter starting detritis out of the way and blast through the drifts to the paved ramp, finish preflighting and deicing, and by then the instructor was ready to go, with hot coffee (for him only) in hand by about 8am!
I was "Dedicated".
414Flyer
Down with Chemtrails!
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I spent a year flying out of Fargo, and actually just brought a Cheyenne back there from Asia. People are nice, very little crime, cheap to live. Many of the women are nordic heritage, especially norwegian.
Yeah the cold can be a biatch there. Just gotta find some big breasted blonde norwegian woman to keep you warm.
Yeah the cold can be a biatch there. Just gotta find some big breasted blonde norwegian woman to keep you warm.
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