The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[payn]

Just spent the annual week up in northern Wisconsin where the week's high this year was 77, and it got down to the 40s at least one night

Back in SC today... And like every year this happens it feels like hell (until I reaclimatize and remember the plants start blooming in February and we probably get a month worth of days in the 30s combined for the entire winter).

You must have really been up there. Probably not Bayfield?

 

[Cadence]

You must have really been up there. Probably not Bayfield?

Not quite that north, and a bit east...Eagle River.

 

[Hussar]

It is so weird. Bayfield is a small town in Ontario Canada too. It almost seems like the original settlers just couldn't be asked to think of original names of places. How many Paris are there? Same twenty names over and over again.

Meanwhile our fantasy worlds have ten bajillion names that look like someone sneezed a Scrabble set.

 

[Cadence]

It is so weird. Bayfield is a small town in Ontario Canada too. It almost seems like the original settlers just couldn't be asked to think of original names of places. How many Paris are there? Same twenty names over and over again.

Meanwhile our fantasy worlds have ten bajillion names that look like someone sneezed a Scrabble set.

We were in Eagle River, WI last year for a funeral, and a call came into the hotel desk while we were standing there. Someone couldn't find the hotel and the directions the person at the desk was giving didn't help.

Needless to say there is also an Eagle River in Alaska.

 

[Guest 7034872]

I get two weeks around Christmas with family in northernmost Illinois... that's enough winter for me

A great Aunt up in northern Wisconsin used to tell of how they went to school until it was 28 below. School would close and they'd go out to play. (Of course she was 100% Finn and I've only got 25%).

Dude, like Dave Barry with his exploding whale story, I absolutely am not making this up: my first professor gig was in St. Paul, MN for three years before moving here. I think it was on my second winter there sometime in January that I stepped outside of my apartment on Grand Ave. in St. Paul to take out the recycling (midnight or thereabouts); as soon as I stepped outside, my eyes hurt because the cold air was aggressively trying to freeze the fluid in them. I immediately "noped" right out of the midnight recycling jaunt, went back inside, and did the recycling the next day after teaching. The local weather reporter said overnight it had been 60 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit.

Freaked me out.

 

[payn]

Like trying to find out which Springfield the Simpsons are from.

 

[payn]

Dude, like Dave Barry with his exploding whale story, I absolutely am not making this up: my first professor gig was in St. Paul, MN for three years before moving here. I think it was on my second winter there sometime in January that I stepped outside of my apartment on Grand Ave. in St. Paul to take out the recycling (midnight or thereabouts); as soon as I stepped outside, my eyes hurt because the cold air was aggressively trying to freeze the fluid in them. I immediately "noped" right out of the midnight recycling jaunt, went back inside, and did the recycling the next day after teaching. The local weather reporter said overnight it had been 60 degrees below freezing, Fahrenheit.

Freaked me out.

Ah, yeah I remember those days. Winters are not quite like that here no more.

 

[Guest 7034872]

Ah, yeah I remember those days. Winters are not quite like that here no more.

Really? It's calmed down a bit?

 

[Guest 7034872]

And it's true--Dave Barry absolutely was not making that incident up; in fact, it's all on video:

 

[Raunalyn]

Really? It's calmed down a bit?

Somewhat...

I moved up here in 2012. I remember the winter of 2014...we dropped down to -50 degrees (mind you, that was with wind chill). I remember walking from my car across the parking lot to the building where I work and my eyeballs freezing. It was not a pleasant sensation.

And then my friend, who was living in Alaska, sent me a picture of the temperature there...it was 28 degrees. And then he sent me the temp on Mars.

Mars was warmer.

It still gets really cold, but I don't think it's gotten that cold since 2014.