Re: Spring Cleaning


"Dawne Peterson" <valkyrie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3t2dnUjKjrS1hSXUnZ2dnUVZ_rmdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"lucille" wrote

"Dawne wrote
Dog has such a heavy coat that the shelter suggested he would appreciate a summer haircut! He is moping around in the hall right now because I will not take him out--the windchill is -43C.

Dawne

I can't imagine that kind of cold. My little wimp, Puff (who has no undercoat at all) doesn't want to go out when the temp drops below 60F. He will stay out a little while if I bother to put on his coat, but if not, he does what he has to and flies back in.

When I was in highschool, they used to translate the windchill into very ominous statements about how long it would take "exposed flesh" to freeze. This gave my mother much ammunition to try to convince me to wear ski pants for my walk to school since the miniskirts of the time certainly left expanses of skin exposed, and pantihose really don't have much insulation value. (At that age I once froze my hand because I was walking and reading--sigh--a love letter.) This isn't done any more (urban legend has it that merchants felt it kept people from shopping), but this is definitely "under 10 minutes" freezing weather, possibly closer to 5 minutes.

Dawne


I'm a New Yorker so I do know a little about cold, though never as cold as Saskatchewan. My father once got frostbitten hands when he was loading up his truck on the docks in Manhattan and I remember the agony he went through till he was able to use his hands properly again and he never really got all the feeling back in his fingertips.

L



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