Last year when I was out hunting I sat next to a stump overlooking a clearcut. I got there very early in the dark and set up and waited. The fog was moving through the valley and I began to get cold. The rain came and went but my gear was good. Unfortunately I had sweated a lot on the hike in and my skin was wet. After about 6 hours I decided to go warm up. I was shaking uncontrollably. I made it to the truck and started it up and changed into dry clothes. It was my first experience with hypothermia. It took many hours before I started to feel normal again. Actually kind of scary.
@tweezak Similar, but long time ago. Was in the USAF stationed in Abilene Tx and decided to go visit a friend in Wichita Falls, usually about a two hour trip on the motorcycle i had then. Weather was in low 50’s, but i was dressed appropriately for that, even driving at 80 mph. So i thought. About a half hour in, i was getting very cold. Another ten minutes, my hands and forehead were aching and i decided i couldn’t handle another more than an hour of this, so turned around.
When i was back at the base, i could barely get off the bike and walk up the outer stairs, my legs were so stiff, even with the heat coming up from the engine and the exhaust pipes. i spent the next 15 minutes or so in the shower in warm water, shaking uncontrollably. When i got out and dry, i turned on the radio and found a cold front had come through during my trip and dropped the temperature below freezing! No telling what it was with the windchill at the speed i’d been doing.
i had never been so cold in my life, including Christmas trips to Buffalo NY visiting family and the two college summers i had worked in an ice cream vault where it was kept well below zero, but was always dressed for that.
@phendrick One summer day when I was 18, I was bored, putting around on my motorcycle, looking for something to do. It was in the 90’s F and like a foolish teen, I was dressed in shorts and a tee shirt. As I rode along aimlessly, I wound up on the (Oregon) Sunset Highway, which crosses the Coast Range to the Pacific. All was fine, putting along, until I reached the peak and started down the last leg to the beach. The temperature dropped significantly and eventually I was shivering so hard I could hardly hold the handlebars. So I had to turn around and go back, only a few miles from the ocean.
Once I backtracked a bit, the air warmed up and I made it back home OK. However, the lesson was not over - I had a horrible sun and wind burn on my exposed skin. Lesson learned - no more rides without proper gear (duh!).
@macromeh@phendrick I live in the mid-Willamette Valley in OR. When it gets hot in the valley as you described it pretty much always sucks in cold foggy air off the ocean. It can get pretty cold on the coast when it’s almost 100 in the valley.
The only parts of me that ever get cold are my shoulders. Not hands, feet, or face, just shoulders. Have occasionally tried to give them away, to no avail.
@lordbowen Well, other parts of me get cold like hands and feet, but this look always makes me shudder - turtleneck? Long sleeves? And bare shoulders???
Food.
@yakkoTDI Thank you there period I was gonna do my usual Quote what is this cold of which you speak unquote but food was just right
Abdomen. Don’t ask.
Balls.
/showme a cold human heart
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@mycya4me I would say; showme my ex-wife, but then I remembered that she’s the only living heart donor!
Core
As the proud owner of having neuropathy, my hands and feet are cold all the time
Junk
Last year when I was out hunting I sat next to a stump overlooking a clearcut. I got there very early in the dark and set up and waited. The fog was moving through the valley and I began to get cold. The rain came and went but my gear was good. Unfortunately I had sweated a lot on the hike in and my skin was wet. After about 6 hours I decided to go warm up. I was shaking uncontrollably. I made it to the truck and started it up and changed into dry clothes. It was my first experience with hypothermia. It took many hours before I started to feel normal again. Actually kind of scary.
@tweezak Similar, but long time ago. Was in the USAF stationed in Abilene Tx and decided to go visit a friend in Wichita Falls, usually about a two hour trip on the motorcycle i had then. Weather was in low 50’s, but i was dressed appropriately for that, even driving at 80 mph. So i thought. About a half hour in, i was getting very cold. Another ten minutes, my hands and forehead were aching and i decided i couldn’t handle another more than an hour of this, so turned around.
When i was back at the base, i could barely get off the bike and walk up the outer stairs, my legs were so stiff, even with the heat coming up from the engine and the exhaust pipes. i spent the next 15 minutes or so in the shower in warm water, shaking uncontrollably. When i got out and dry, i turned on the radio and found a cold front had come through during my trip and dropped the temperature below freezing! No telling what it was with the windchill at the speed i’d been doing.
i had never been so cold in my life, including Christmas trips to Buffalo NY visiting family and the two college summers i had worked in an ice cream vault where it was kept well below zero, but was always dressed for that.
@tweezak hypothermic
@phendrick One summer day when I was 18, I was bored, putting around on my motorcycle, looking for something to do. It was in the 90’s F and like a foolish teen, I was dressed in shorts and a tee shirt. As I rode along aimlessly, I wound up on the (Oregon) Sunset Highway, which crosses the Coast Range to the Pacific. All was fine, putting along, until I reached the peak and started down the last leg to the beach. The temperature dropped significantly and eventually I was shivering so hard I could hardly hold the handlebars. So I had to turn around and go back, only a few miles from the ocean.
Once I backtracked a bit, the air warmed up and I made it back home OK. However, the lesson was not over - I had a horrible sun and wind burn on my exposed skin. Lesson learned - no more rides without proper gear (duh!).
@macromeh @phendrick I live in the mid-Willamette Valley in OR. When it gets hot in the valley as you described it pretty much always sucks in cold foggy air off the ocean. It can get pretty cold on the coast when it’s almost 100 in the valley.
Absolute Zero
/showme a cold human heart.
@KSchweitz i could but i dont have her picture
My tummy.
Anything. Gimme 70+degrees all year long, please.
Coffee
My heart is always cold.
Its the season for hot lemonade or hot Dr Pepper with a slice of lime!
@fairchild521 tell me these recipes, please
The only parts of me that ever get cold are my shoulders. Not hands, feet, or face, just shoulders. Have occasionally tried to give them away, to no avail.
@lordbowen Well, other parts of me get cold like hands and feet, but this look always makes me shudder - turtleneck? Long sleeves? And bare shoulders???