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Post #75,675
by inthane-chan
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1/20/03 12:32:26 PM
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New About 2 years ago.
Christmas 2000, we went to visit my dad for about a week.

This last time we were there, the temperature was a much more reasonable 30 degrees or thereabouts. The windchill was still something vicious, but it was much more tolerable than last time.

It could just be me, though...
Any deity worthy of a graven image can cobble up a working universe complete with fake fossils in under a week - hey, if you're not omnipotent, there's no real point in being a god. But to start with a big ball of elementary particles and end up with the duckbill platypus without constant twiddling requires a degree of subtlety and the ability to Think Things Through: exactly the qualities I'm looking for when I'm shopping for a Supreme Being.
Post #75,683
by ben_tilly
1/20/03 12:57:24 PM
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New Please find the day in question
Here is [link|http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KDCA/2000/12/25/DailyHistory.html|Christmas 2000] in Washington, DC and it seemed to be barely below freezing.

Please don't think that I am being a jerk. But I happened to be walking around in [link|http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KLEB/2000/12/25/DailyHistory.html|this] and I know that the Pacific Northwest didn't come within a mile of comparing to that. (Their site does not go back to 92/93, which was when I learned what -20 is like. Not a fun memory.)

Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #75,697
by inthane-chan
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1/20/03 1:45:01 PM
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New Huh.
Can't find it. It's possible that what I'm thinking of is that with wind chill the temperature was down to 0 or thereabouts - but I do very specifically remember the TV talking about it being 0.

That's probably where I screwed up, trusting anything said on TV.

I'll agree that -20f would probably beat the holy crap out of anything that we experience over here. I'll also agree that it's quite possible that my personal opinion of humidity being the real killer is quite subjective, and open to interpretation.

And no, I don't think you're being a jerk. :)
Any deity worthy of a graven image can cobble up a working universe complete with fake fossils in under a week - hey, if you're not omnipotent, there's no real point in being a god. But to start with a big ball of elementary particles and end up with the duckbill platypus without constant twiddling requires a degree of subtlety and the ability to Think Things Through: exactly the qualities I'm looking for when I'm shopping for a Supreme Being.
Post #75,720
by ben_tilly
1/20/03 3:10:57 PM
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New I think your possibility is right
And my experience is that their figures of what it is like "with windchill" really mean, "with windchill and assuming you were an idiot while dressing." That doesn't at all (to me if I am dressed for it) feel like the raw temperature in question does...

Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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