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12-15-2008, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Pilot1
Spend a long cold, gray winter in the Northeast and then compare Denver's occassional cold snap or snow dump which is sporadic. I'l take 55F and sunny which feels like 65F due to the lack of humidity and intensity of the sun. Sure there is cold and some snow along the Front Range but nothing like the northeast. The weather changes often in CO but a clear sunny sky in midwinter is great and that is common here.
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Been there, done that. It's why I'm not moving to Maine and my girlfriend is moving here instead.
Spent a few weeks there last Winter....one day it snowed about 10 inches, then it started raining...then her car froze shut and we had to pour a couple buckets of hot water around the doors to get it open.
The roads are terrible out there, the skiing sucks, and there are far fewer sunny days. I'll take this dry cold over a bone-chilling Northeastern kinda cold any day.... |
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12-15-2008, 05:13 PM
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Location: NOCO
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I just think people out east complain more.
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12-15-2008, 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Shuffler
Been there, done that. It's why I'm not moving to Maine and my girlfriend is moving here instead. Spent a few weeks there last Winter....one day it snowed about 10 inches, then it started raining...then her car froze shut and we had to pour a couple buckets of hot water around the doors to get it open.
The roads are terrible out there, the skiing sucks, and there are far fewer sunny days. I'll take this dry cold over a bone-chilling Northeastern kinda cold any day....
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The weather here is GREAT.
Y'all come! |
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12-15-2008, 07:22 PM
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On DoubleSecret Probation
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You think it's cold in Denver, take a look at northern Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota! Why does Colorado get all the bad pub?
I watched Fargo this weekend. Those people talk funny. "You should see the other guy."  |
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12-15-2008, 07:46 PM
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Location: Orange County CA
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How warm do you keep your house when its 0 degrees outside? What's the minimum you'd ever set your thermostat in the winter to protect the pipes?
Side question I've wondered about: Basements are the coolest part of the house in the summer but what about winter? Are they still the coldest or does being a little below grade help insulate them?
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12-15-2008, 09:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Shuffler
B I'll take this dry cold over a bone-chilling Northeastern kinda cold any day....
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"dry cold" hahahahaha!
Wow! That's funny! 
"dry heat" and "dry cold"  |
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12-15-2008, 09:12 PM
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Living his Rocky Mtn Dream!
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Summit County (Colorado's Playground)
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Personally, this cold really isn't that hard to deal with I LOVE IT, it feels so refreshing and invigorating!!!.....It was -21 here in Silverthorne at 7:00 this morning and I just didn't see the big deal.
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12-15-2008, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by McGowdog
You think it's cold in Denver, take a look at northern Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota! Why does Colorado get all the bad pub?
I watched Fargo this weekend. Those people talk funny. "You should see the other guy." |
Colorado gets pretty cold at times during the winter but it's nothing compared to ND and MN. I lived in ND for 5 years and it gets mindblowingly cold up there. I love the cold though so I enjoyed living in ND. |
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12-15-2008, 10:34 PM
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I just read a story in Trains Magazine about a derailment along the shores of Lake Superior, in deep winter. The clean up crews had to fight temps of 30 below and wind chills of 60 below zero, and that's a DAMP cold, not a dry cold like here.
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12-15-2008, 10:46 PM
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Realist
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike from back east
I just read a story in Trains Magazine about a derailment along the shores of Lake Superior, in deep winter. The clean up crews had to fight temps of 30 below and wind chills of 60 below zero, and that's a DAMP cold, not a dry cold like here.
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STOP with the 'dry cold' talk....LBear can't stop laughing.... |
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