Thanks once again for the hospitality!
The Puma was more of a snow cat
Damn! It was cold last night.
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Pine
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Damn! It was cold last night.
After spending the night at IMPI's place in Orkney, we woke this morning to find the cars parked outside covered in a layer of ice
Thanks once again for the hospitality!
The Puma was more of a snow cat
Thanks once again for the hospitality!
The Puma was more of a snow cat
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Re: Damn! It was cold last night.
Gee, you guys park rides outside and still find them there in the moring???
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Re: Damn! It was cold last night.
That's a very nice Bus that you have there Pine. That 914 isn't too bad either 
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Re: Damn! It was cold last night.
And then you tried to use the hose pipe and it was frozen solid....
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Re: Damn! It was cold last night.
Sounds kinda like last years cold spell
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Re: Damn! It was cold last night.
Amazingly, Orkney is *touch wood* one of those places where kids can still ride their BMX's in the streets till after dark and you do indeed still find your cars the next morning where you left them, even on the lawn with no fence in the yard.calooker wrote:Gee, you guys park rides outside and still find them there in the moring???
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Re: Damn! It was cold last night.
Cold, come come come, that is just a little breezy, now wake up to this and then we talk.....
And then when it get a little hotter you have to deal with this....
Now this is winter. IT SUCKS!!!!!
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Re: Damn! It was cold last night.
Watercool.... I do understand what you are saying, but ours is a cold that eats thru your clothes.
2000m altitude (nearly 7000ft), about 10% humidity and -10 celcius.
Problem is our houses are built for 30 plus deg summers, not winter.
Trust me on this.... minus 10 in Europe beats plus 10 in Cape Town any day.
2000m altitude (nearly 7000ft), about 10% humidity and -10 celcius.
Problem is our houses are built for 30 plus deg summers, not winter.
Trust me on this.... minus 10 in Europe beats plus 10 in Cape Town any day.
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Re: Damn! It was cold last night.
Hell no!!! It eats thru & into your bones... I think the other problem in Jhb is that they get summer rain which increases the underground water table and then in winter when the temps drop to freezing this water table freezes and the cold comes out of the ground so you never warm up in winter.....
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Re: Damn! It was cold last night.
Sorry guys, I'm with WC on this one.
If you think we have it cold, you've not really been cold yet.
Even our frostbitten winters close to open water where you actually get to -5 Celsius, are short lived enough to survive with minimal effort.
That snow... That's death in a white robe.
He silently creeps up on you fills you with a fake warmth and sneaks you off to the next life.
By the time you realize it, both you and the paramedics are about 6 hours to late.
If you think we have it cold, you've not really been cold yet.
Even our frostbitten winters close to open water where you actually get to -5 Celsius, are short lived enough to survive with minimal effort.
That snow... That's death in a white robe.
He silently creeps up on you fills you with a fake warmth and sneaks you off to the next life.
By the time you realize it, both you and the paramedics are about 6 hours to late.
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Re: Damn! It was cold last night.
I've driven the buggy in snow in Lesotho with only a warm jacket and gloves, and it really wasn't that bad. I don't think we know real cold here in sunny SA...
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Re: Damn! It was cold last night.
When the wind is doing 60-70km/h and the temperature gauge is reading -33 Deg C, cold gets a totally different meaning.
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Re: Damn! It was cold last night.
From what I read is that even when it is really cold in South Africa,in the morning, it still warms up later in the day. Here we have times where the temp dips below freezing and stay there. A few years back it got to minus 25 degree F (about - 32 degree C) and stayed there for nearly 20 days. Any and I mean ANY chance for bodyheat is shot, you go out and it is sucked out of you in seconds. We could only work from 10 am till 6 pm, and NO movement after that kinda like a curfue. It was to cold even for it to snow.