Weather and logic, people are strange

[3930dave]

Re: Weather and logic

You mean like...?

If you want wind schedule a golf tournament...
If you want dead calm schedule a sailboat race...

Seems to work pretty well in my experience...!

LOL.

Need Wind ? Start working outside with vertical 4x8 sheets of plywood !

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

That reminds me, as kids we moved from NY to GA. The first year down there we rented a house down there and we had CPS called on us because (being crazy Yankee redneck kids who didn't care much about the cold), we went outside after the Christmas ice storm and were cutting up the tree that the ice took down with the new bow saws that we got for Christmas and we didn't have coats on.
Apparently us not wearing coats (note that there was ice on the ground, but air temps were above freezing and we were cutting up a tree by hand) translated to us not having coats, shoes, electricity or beds (per the neighbor who never came outside even to say hi to us and had never been inside the house since we moved in).

Aaron Z

Today, Mrs. Kravitz would have also called for:

Macro environmental assessment.
Soil erosion study.
Wildlife impact study.
50 hours training on How to Use a Handsaw.
$300 of PPE per kid.
EMS on hot standby.

Rgds, D.

 

[PhysAssist]

One of my friends lives in Hawaii and it never fails when she visits to be the only one wearing a sweater...

Acclimated is a term I use to hear a lot... some do it fast and some never.

Those out working seem to have a greater tolerance... those that spend their time in climate controlled environments often have little tolerance... even a 1.5 degree change at work will generate comments.

This has actually been studied pretty well, and exercising [that is to say doing strenuous physical labor] outdoors [especially in cold weather] will help you to acclimatize much more quickly.

Which explains why after running cross country in high school- the season ended in late November, and we ran in shorts during both competition and training, regardless of the weather, I mostly wore only a light windbreaker style jacket all winter long regardless of the temperature or windchill, and was never really bothered by it.

Of course, after having near-frostbite a couple of times as an adult, and now carpal tunnel syndrome, I can't hardly stand cold on my hands for more than a few minutes without pain.

 

[LouNY]

I don't like the cold or the heat, I'm comfortable from 60 to 70 F.
I have noticed that this winter after heart work and meds that I couldn't handle the cold near as well as I used to, my face got cold quite quickly,
never used to. I have never liked the heat Vietnam was terrible and West Texas was OK, I always tried to work in the shade :laughing:,
now I find the heat 80+ to be really oppressive. I broke down and had mini-splits installed last year to get rid of the high cost window units :cool2:

 

[MossRoad]

At my old job we had a security guard that would only work here in summer. He went to Florida for the winter. He was in the Korean War. He said he never was so cold in his life as he was in that war, and he never wanted to be anywhere near that cold again. On the flip side, we had a guy that liked to be here in winter for fall and Christmas, and he lived in Florida in the summer. So, they'd switch shifts for 6 months! Good old guys. Both have long passed away. I miss talking to them.