You Know You're a Northerner When...

[CapricornFarm]

I went down a hill once on my flying saucer, zipping down the hill! It was great fun until i came to a sudden stop at the bottom on a flat ledge! I had the wind knocked out of me so badly i didn't think i could draw a breath.

 

[BantyChooks]

Not this one....what are ya, skeered?

I do, even if Liz is skeert!

 

[Pasha838]

Well, this could be fun. Did you know we ride polar bears to work?

Try to use a yakutian horse ))

Yakutia. Last news of this winter (i read it on the Internet) - schoolchildren were not canceled classes, because on the street was only -50 C. Classes are canceled if on the street - 52 C.
And I know the most severe frost that was here -37 C (in Moscow, two years ago) and then I remember, once again I did not want to go out on the street. They have there -50 C, it's okay, schoolchildren are walking, they go to school.

 

[lazy gardener]

Let's hear it, Blooie: It's gotta be better than mine. We had a sled, the old fashioned kind with the metal runners. And we had a toboggan, the old fashioned wooden one with the ropes along the sides for handles. The toboggan would hold quite a few kids if they were stacked on top of each other, or if they were sitting belly to back.

I was always running over my fingers with the sled. One day, My brother and I were going down the hill that led from the pasture, through the pine grove and ended at a creek at the bottom. He saw the pulp truck, and rolled off. I didn't hear his warning, b/c of the wind whistling in my ears. I slid under the pulp truck, and stopped short against one wheel. Howled all the way home. I was quite the drama queen back then!

 

[Pasha838]

Once we burned down an old substation in the winter. The neighbor could not start the generator because of the frost. I had to drain diesel generator into the canister from this generator, put this canister in a boiling tank of water, so that it heated up, then quickly pour this fuel back into the generator and then it was put on.
The neighbor was very happy and then he gave me a cake with a sugar star.

This winter here (on my place) is somehow very warm. Frost is stronger as 15 C has not even happened yet. Therefore, my geese and ducks walked in the greenhouses, and I did not even drive them to special sheds. Only today i drived they for a night, in the morning i open the doors again.

 

[BantyChooks]

Try to use a yakutian horse ))

Yakutia. Last news of this winter (i read it on the Internet) - schoolchildren were not canceled classes, because on the street was only -50 C. Classes are canceled if on the street - 52 C.
And I know the most severe frost that was here -37 C (in Moscow, two years ago) and then I remember, once again I did not want to go out on the street. They have there -50 C, it's okay, schoolchildren are walking, they go to school.

Maybe that story would make southerners stop complaining about 0*C.

 

[Pasha838]

I'm something in between )) I can not bear the intense heat and I do not like heavy frost. My range is from -30 C to +30 C.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm something in between )) I can not bear the intense heat and I do not like heavy frost. My range is from -30 C to +30 C.

I start wilting at 20*C, but I can tolerate up to 27*C. -40C is about my limit but colder wouldn't be too bad.

 

[Pasha838]

I was used to the weather of the place where I was born and lived most of my life. I think if people live for generations in the same place, they adapt to the weather. Therefore, the Yakut schoolchildren quietly go to school in such a frost, and if I go there - I will be very cold.
I remember once I went to Europe (from Moscow) in the summer, and was very tormented because of unusual weather, I even caught a cold, although I do not get sick at home for years. They have a warmer climate than we have in Moscow, but I managed to catch a cold... in the summer!

 

[lazy gardener]

I'm convinced that exposure to cold weather, (Meaning weather cold enough that it drops your core temperature) boosts the immune system and helps the body to fight off illness.