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| 24 below...... 83 below with the wind chill at 11 yesterday (bemidji) |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | figures it would be so cold today. I had to work on Lori's Jeep and my step-daughter's car. BRRRRRRR!
Sometimes it sucks to be handy. |
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Location: Rhinelander. | Its 9:39 in Rhinelander and just went out to look see what temperature is> Saw its
-20 at the moment and still. Schools here announced they will be closed tomorrow. In 8 weeks the boat comes out of storage.......Think Spring guys!!!!!
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Location: The desert | What freezes faster water the is 212 degrees or water that is 32.1 degrees (farenhite for both)? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I would freeze faster than both. I proved that in minus 20 this evening trying to gather some wood for Darth's Outhouse. That thing is incredible. Heat is good. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | What cold?
This is just winter. Heck I spent 22 hours in the shack starting Friday night at 5pm till 3pm Saturday. A pile of eyes from the night and only a muskie to show for the day time fishing. Best part is the $110.00 I won for the 1st and 2nd place in the walleye division in the jamborie I was in.
Suck it up and fish. Monday we will fish Rocky Point, virgin water baby. WHAT COLD!!! |
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Location: Maribel WI | You use cold water more often in the house, thats why the "hot pipes" are the ones that usually freeze up.
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| I have worked in water treatment for over 10 years and some real theories are based on the very fact that hot water feezes faster than cold. If you start with the same volume of water, hot water will freeze faster if it is exposed to freezing temperatures (below 32F) if there is oportunity for evaporation. There will be less water volume to actually freeze.
Edited by Musky53 2/4/2007 11:02 PM
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Let some derned tree hugger tell me about "global warming" right now! I'd break his derned nose! |
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| wooho. and i was ready to whine. its only 4 below on st clair. its time to dig out my shorts. |
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| If you guys debating hot water freezing faster want to see something really cool, take a pan of boiling water outside and flip the water out of it up into the air. It will turn into freezing pelletts mid-air at these temps. A reporter in Duluth did it on the news last night. |
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| -28 this morning on way into work north of brainerd. Tough to ice fish in this! |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | UNCLE !!! |
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Location: Minneapolis | How about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? Not a whacko, tree-hugging group, but a peer-reviewed, consensus report from over 600 scientists from more than 40 countries? http://www.ipcc.ch/ The consensus? Global warming is here and it's "very likely" (90% confidence) caused by human activity.
It's dang cold now, heck I raced 25 km on cross country skis yesterday with windchill down around -35F, and it would have been easy to break (shatter?) my nose it was so cold, but the climate is warming up. Period.
It's time we start taking climate change seriously. I, for one, would like to continue cross country skiing in Minnesota. I don't want to have to travel to the Yukon for a little snow. As fun as peacock bass are, I don't want to be fishing for them in Minneapolis!
Off the soap box now... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The obviously ridiculous thing here is that the weather being so cold causes a huge spike in fossil fuel consumption adding more carbon dioxide to the air contributing to global warming.
I am the walrus...  |
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| Actually, Steve...
The part that is ridiculous that in an age of I pods and wireless internet technology we can come up with no better way to harness energy than by burning carbon based fuels...
Am I the only one to see the irony behind the fact that the very things which brought us out of the dark ages and allow us to thrive are the same things which will ultimately lead to our extinction? |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Cold cash.
Spent a good part of today searching everywhere for my wallet. Finally gave up and went to a couple of appointments. In my wallet was a couple hundred bucks, all my credit cards, and most of my fishing mentors' phone numbers as I am too stupid to figure out how to load them into my cell phone. I could not imagine where I could have lost it because I had it with me when I picked up a couple burgers for lunch yesterday and never got out of my car.
Came back from my appointments and while driving up the driveway saw my wallet under my wife's car hidden behind one of the wheels. I had looked under there but didn't see it. Must have fallen out of my coat pocket as I was wearing sweat pants when I went for burgers.
Gives a whole new meaning to the term cold cash.
Now I can call Joel, Mike, Troy, Slamr, etc. and beg them to take me fishing, and that warms my heart. 
Kevin
Global warming. It's the cows. Eat more beef. |
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| LOL
How many of you guys read that post and instinctively checked to see if your wallet was still there?
Hopeful, if it was me and I found something of mine behind the tire of my wife's car, I'd be very careful about crawling under there to get it. Her car wasn't running at the time and she wasn't behind the wheel was she? |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Nah, she was inside tearing the house apart looking for it. We looked everywhere. In baskets of folded laundry, the frig, the freezer, dug the fast food bags out of the garbage, in boots on the floor of the utility room, everywhere. I even went to the neighbors and looked around in their driveway, TWICE, as I dropped my daughter off there to play yesterday afternoon.
When I came in the house and threw it on the utility room counter, she had been looking for almost two hours straight.
God bless her, she's sicker than a dog, too. I'm going to go to the store and buy her some chicken soup with the money in my wallet.
Kevin
Global warming. It's the cows. Eat more beef.
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| Chocolate bro
Buy her a box of chocolate
wait until she's eating the soup and then take the chocolate out and say "oh yeah, I got this for you for desert"
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| I put this in the wrong spot before.
Global warming is not all bad. There is always two sides to every story:
http://www.abd.org.uk/green_myths.htm
I supect there will never be a consensus on global warming. Fish as much as you can, enjoy the warm days, turn your furnace up on the cold days, and enjoy life. The plantet is a great thing to enjoy. There is nothing wrong with being conscientious about the environment, but don't fret about the things you can't control. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | It's going to hit minus 20 here again tonight.no
bad for your
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Location: minocqua, wi. | small world .... got home from china and of course the diesel wouldn't start ... got a lift from some folks from minocqua, wi. that i met in tokyo ... he works for yamaha. |
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| dare I?
anyone remember the "global cooling" scare of the mid-70's?
George Will said (and I'm paraphrasing here) that the earth's temp has increased by 1 degree in the last century. How accurate is that? We have to stick a thermometer in an orifice to get our own temp, but they can say for certain that the earth's has gone up 1 degree?
"it's the cows".....I LOVE that one!
Lake Erie froze over in less than 48 hours this weekend. Ice as far as I can see. Easily the fastest I've ever seen it freeze up. Warming? Really? I vote we use some "rare" sense (it just ain't that common anymore, is it?) and reduce energy use, reduce non-natural chemicals we introduce into nature, quit fightin' and go fishin'!
I'm heading up to my warm 'nest'....the wife just headed up with some night time snacks....hope everyone else can be as warm and lucky as I am!
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| Smokin Joe - 2/4/2007 3:47 PM
Hopeful,
I have been Plumbing for 20 years, every time someone calls about a frozen pipe, 90% of the time it is always the hot water side, I cant explain it I am a dumb plumber not a scientist...........
Because you run the hot water less than the cold water imo. |
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| And the universally recognized flush uses what type of water???? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Wet? |
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| My flush uses warm water, I have a hot cold mixing valve so the tank doesn't "sweat" |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Many of the schools in our area were closed today. The ElmBrook school system that we're a part of stayed open. Now we hear tomorrow our district is closing. I don't recall schools closing because of cold when I was a kid.
When it got below zero we stuffed our jackets with towels and shredded newspaper, put socks on our hands, slid our sneaker shod feet into plastic bread bags before putting them in our galoshes, threw a dog on our head and a cat around our neck, and trotted off to school.
We'd play tackle pom pom at recess and go sledding at the end of the day. We had so much fun the frostbite induced gangrene didn't bother us. Nine and a half fingers and seven and a half toes is plenty.
Kevin
Global warming. It's the cows. Eat more beef. |
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Location: The desert | This is good ice fishing weather! Headed out tomorrow! |
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