re: Coldest you have ever been?

Posted by ColoradoAg03

Denver, CO

Member since Oct 2012

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 12:33 am to genro

All you need is a good down puffy jacket and you're golden. You can wear a tshirt under a good one no matter how cold it is.

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Posted by Breauxsif

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 12:38 am to lsuoilengr

8 degrees Loy Kalay Afghanistan Dec 2009.

Posted by Old Money

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 1:55 am to CidCock

Lake Louise in Alberta, it was about -20 at its peak. It was so cold when you walked outside that it was crippling.

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Posted by Priapism99

Rhode Island

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 4:00 am to Old Money

Its zero in Manchester, CT. Right now. Brr.

Posted by BOSCEAUX

Where the Down Boys go.

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 4:19 am to Priapism99

It was somewhere between 9 & 12 degrees Christmas Eve in 1984 in Starks, LA. It was windy and we were outside shooting fireworks. Light the fricker and sprint back to the fire.

Posted by KG6

Member since Aug 2009

10920 posts

Posted on 1/8/15 at 5:05 am to BOSCEAUX

4 degrees in NYC February of last year. Did a lot of walking and layered up well. Wasn't horrible. Wasn't good either, but we made it. Plus it only lasted one day. In the teens the rest of the week.

Posted by LSUMurse

Metairie, LA

Member since May 2008

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 5:14 am to KG6

Walking from the PX to commissary on Keflavik Naval Base in Iceland. Wind was so bad it drove me sliding across a sheet of ice until I fell backwards into an as yet unfrozen puddle. By the time I got to the commissary my clothes were literally frozen stiff.

Ever try to take off frozen clothes?

Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt

Here

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 5:15 am to LSUMurse

I got soaked with demineralized water last year when it was in the low 20's. That shite freezes quick.

Posted by Priapism99

Rhode Island

Member since Nov 2014

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 6:41 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt

I got in my truck half hour ago to head home, it showed -1, before the wind chill.

I went hunting years ago in Brandon, MS, when there was one of those Canadian winter trough events happening, it was -17.

Posted by WylieTiger

Member since Nov 2006

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 6:43 am to CidCock

-23 Hatcher Pass, AK

-60 wind chill Anchorage, AK

Posted by BottomlandBrew

Member since Aug 2010

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 6:50 am to WylieTiger

It is 5 degrees here this morning and wind chill is -8. That's the coldest I've been in a long time. I've only been below 0 once and it was in NYC. Us southerners do not have the clothing to deal with such low temperatures.

Posted by Bestbank Tiger

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 6:55 am to CidCock

Don't remember the exact temperature but I've seen below zero a few times.

Posted by ladytiger118

Member since Aug 2009

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 7:03 am to Swoopin

This. People I know who go to Colorado and Utah regularly to ski say it feels warmer there at 15 degrees than Nola does at 35 degrees due to the dampness.

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Posted by yellowfin

Coastal Bar

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 7:06 am to CidCock

Wind chill -50 at A Basin peak

Didn't see actual temp

Posted by Priapism99

Rhode Island

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Posted on 1/8/15 at 7:10 am to ladytiger118

This. People I know who go to Colorado and Utah regularly to ski say it feels warmer there at 15 degrees than Nola does at 35 degrees due to the dampness.

I completely agree. Earlier this week it was 15 degrees most of the day, once you were out of the wind, it wasn't all that bad. But I've been totally miserable in 40 degrees in NOLA