54 Replies to “March 6, 2025: Reader Tips”

  1. I was on the Pan Arctic Bent Horn M-12 well on Cameron Is. NWT in ’77. It was -50F. I shiver just thinking about it.

  2. Nothing that COLD … brrrrrrr
    But something really cool from the greatest era in music … and the greatest genre’ in music … psychedelic

    https://youtu.be/YPaa0l5IGJc?si=AT-De0Yypuxf8IsM

    But as an aside … and I’ve never shared this here … I have relatives (sorta, it’s complicated) who live in Saskatchewan … who are massive leftists, who post constantly about how Trump is the antichrist. Well … years ago, they lived in Shishmaref AK … doing good works for the Native peoples.
    https://cdn.diaocthongthai.com/map/USA/map_location_3/ak/shishmaref.webp
    I think Saskatchewan is downright balmy by comparison

  4. My personal experience, -35C in Edmonton. I went out for a walk, but my boots were too snug. Bad idea. You want to have that layer of air between your feet and the toe-eating-monster-cold outside. Learned to buy boots a size larger and use appropriately sized socks, mostly through the advice of an outdoors outfitter I came to befriend. One of my Quebec acquaintances
    leaving in Edmonton at the time had lost two toes to frostbite playing hockey… Great White North, where tariffs caper unmolested and the govern… wait!

  5. -45 C, in Shellbrook Sask, walking home from the bar. 4 miles south, 1 mile west. Can’t get lost, go south, take the first right. Perhaps the most memorable night of my life, the northern lights were the most amazing thing I have ever seen. There were 5, sometimes more, concentric wheels of light above my head, pulsating, undulating, and spinning in all directions…sheets of colour undulating off into the horizon all around the outside. All the way home, all 5 miles. I would have stood outside and watched it some more, but I wasn’t walking anymore and I started getting cold, and had work to do in the morning so…I went in to bed. I was dressed for the occasion, of course, and it was dead calm, and I wasn’t working, like Vance, so, despite this being perhaps the coldest I have experienced, it is by far not the worst.

    Lots of people say Saskatchewan is balmy, most of them are not taking about the weather.

  6. Dressed for the weather, keep exposed skin minimal, yeah balmy.
    A month of -30c, walk to work, 4 km roundtrip. Feltpac boots. Skin on heel of foot developed deep cracks.

  7. Probably -36 °C or -33 °C.

    Not surprised that I’m the only person here so far who can type the degree sign.

    1. Surfer = a pathetic nitpicker and a smug insufferable insulter of the good folks here. In other words, a C-clone to a large º.

      1. “Lupus solus” = an easily triggered miserable case of inferiority complex who is too st00pid to figure out how to type the degree sign and unsuccessfully tries to hide its own st00pidity.

        Hint ° and º are different characters, even though they look similar in some fonts.

        1. Only a moronic clown would care about such a barely visible distinction without a difference.

          But, by all means, keep trying to convince yourself of your phantom intellectual superiority.

          1. “Only a moronic clown” would pretend not to care while reacting like Lupus solus. Then again, self-contradiction (and, by extention, self-ridicule) is the defining trait of a typical inhabitant of this sanctuary.

    1. Lupus-I think this was obvious. My question for the people who like to speak who is felating who is what is the end game they envision ? I only see a few possible outcomes. One is Russia totally controls Ukraine after years of grinding on and people tire of it. Or we dispense with pretense and have at it. Or you negotiate a settlement leaving no one happy.
      The problem is ,Russia does not have to accept defeat. Nuclear weapons change the dynamics. As for grinding it out , that has not proven to be a wining strategy over and over again,with the possible exception of South Korea. This of course has not left them immune from threats. The only sensible solution is a negotiated settlement. The alternatives leaves Russia ,Europe and North America in weak positions if not largely destroyed. And if you haven’t noticed there’s a another large chunk of the who will happily take advantage of that. I recognize it doesn’t insure absolute security. But as I have asked , what are the other outcomes?

      1. I’m sure that a negotiated settlement leaves those who won’t face death and injury in war very happy.

        Just look at the VE and VJ celebrations.

  9. Coldest temp I’ve experienced:
    a) -47C (-53F) on a oilfield service rig near Peace River. Not fun outside. Fortunately my steel toed, steel sole boots were two sizes too large so I had room for two pairs socks and felt insoles

    b) coldest I’ve felt? 35 minutes in 1C water, while ice flow racing near Peterborough Ontario. I was wearing a scuba diving wet suit, but man I was cold.

  10. The real story of the Epstein files

    https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1897416783478579354?

    Mike Cernovich says, “The criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein was a containment operation.”

    “Why would Epstein (be) charged with so little, given the volume of evidence against him?”

    “The real Epstein files are in some intelligence vault, somewhere.”

    “The real files are hidden in some place that even Kash Patel doesn’t have access to.”

    My theory; Epstein was running a kompromat operation for the CIA. Feel free to scream Mossad operation all you want, but the idea that the CIA was not actively involved is frankly, ludicrous.

    1. Of course the CIA was involved, and probably FBI and others. They all want controlled people in as many places as possible. The Playboy Mansion was another extortion and blackmail honeypot.

      “Also notable is the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein would themselves become involved in Isabel’s world, i.e. the growing nexus between Silicon Valley and Israel, courting and allegedly blackmailing major Silicon Valley executives while also investing in Israeli intelligence-connected start-ups.”

      https://brutalproof.net/2020/07/all-3-maxwell-sisters-involved-in-spying-for-israel-their-1-allegiance-bill-gates-ms-major-connection/

    2. Here’s a CIA connection.

      “Jeffrey Epstein never got a college degree, but was hired as a teacher by William Barr’s father”

      https://x.com/HarrisonHSmith/status/1897519330075504739

      “First of two parts on U.S. Attorney General William Barr and his secret life with the CIA leading up to his first time in the position under President George H. W. Bush”

      https://govbanknotes.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/meet-william-barr-the-man-you-never-got-to-know/

      It’s a big club.

  13. Wait. Wut?
    It’s socially acceptable to discuss the mongol horde culture again?
    Has Victoria Nuland and her minions (you know who you are) sanctioned this?

    Omul Sinykha here I come.

  14. -40⁰C with a 50km/hr wind. I was learning to operate a hydrovac truck for the winter drilling program at a mine NE of Ft. Mac. My instructor and I had to dump at the tailings pond, rear end pointed straight into the wind of a flat lake which was basically a wind tunnel. As we were dumping, the heated tank seal on the rear door built up ice from the drilling mud we were dumping, making it impossible to close and seal the rear door closed so we could seal for repressurization. We rotated in and out of the cad to keep warm as we smashed the ice off the rear seal.

    As we were walking back to the cab, I noticed my partners face, his cheeks looked grey and waxey looking. As we were working night shift, the LED lights were ablaze, but colour’s look different in that light. I told him, and he looked alarmed. We spent an extended time in the cab to thaw out.

    We were only out in that wind for 11 minutes.

    He ended up with frostbite on his cheeks. The skin on his cheeks went black, about the size of a dime in the next few days.

    He had been in the north working for 40+ years and said he had never had frostbite like this before.

    A bone-chilling memory.

  16. What’s the coldest weather? C’mon how about, ‘who’s the hottest babe you’ve experienced’.

    I’d start the thread but I know I’d be called out for exaggerating.

  18. Alberta born and raised. Have lived in Calgary, Red Deer, and Edmonton. Red Deer is often colder than Edmonton and Red Deer has the coldest day in my memory. I remember a big storm from 1964 where all the Red Deer Transit buses were stalled on the road due to diesel fuel gelling. I remember the temperature being reported as -63 or so but I believe that to be wind chill. I was in grade two. My mother was unaware of the severity of the temperatures after the storm began and sent me out the door to walk to the school which was a block away. I got there and and there was one other kid and one teacher. They called my mother to come and take me back home. It was a nasty, nasty storm I won’t forget. I looked it up this morning. Here is a link to a report in the old Albertan newspaper about it at the time.
    https://www.thealbertan.com/opinion/commentary-severity-of-1964s-great-blizzard-was-worse-2028182#:~:text=Wind%20chills%20were%20estimated%20at,worst%20ever%20recorded%20in%20Alberta.

    1. Good grief. I’m sure all the women have phones, freaking call 911, press the emergency strip on the train. Is this the result of the white guilt trip that’s been forced on us the last 20 years?

  22. -40° in Regina as a teenager who always underdressed for the cold, playing hockey on an outdoors rink in the city which rhymes with “fun” and that magical moment when both Fahrenheit and Centigrade meet … I don’t remember the wind, possibly because anything under 20 mph doesn’t really count as “wind” in Regina, the city which rhymes with “fun”.

    The worst weather I’ve worked in outside was only -35C° in Calgary in a building downtown, about level 11 prior to the exterior walls being in place, it was a windy day, and on level 11 there wasn’t anything in the way of that wind. At below 30C° the semi polished concrete changes and becomes super slick, making the carrying of any pipes a risk as you know you’re going to fall a couple of times, my boots have been “Timberland Boondocks” for a couple of decades and I highly recommend them short of wearing the moon boots some of us wear up north at Ft Mac. My feet are always comfortable in these boots, have never been cold, only 2x wool sox from Mark’s and these boots, lined Carhartts, 2x long wool underwear from Stanfields which is double layer as well, (NOT acrylic or cotton) and sometimes a layer of MEC fleece and a real coat of a few different types. I have a variety of head gears, mostly wool type hats with a windproof layer, and fleece face covers as from your breath and working outside for hours you’ll have to remove it a few times to either squeeze it out or shake it off. I know it’s gross, the alternative is being much more cold.
    My ears froze when I was about 14 and they peeled until June, and were super itchy for months. That’s not going to happen again. I have no experience with electric / battery powered jackets or sox, if they work for you that’s great.

    I never use “wind chill” as an indicator of cold temps. If it’s real cold out I’ll say, “it’s – whatever outside and the wind is going to be a factor”

  25. In November 2016 it got down to -64C at the Edmonton International Airport. Hardly any wind though.

    The coldest I’ve seen with wind chill is -86C – and I had to go outside to feed the cattle. Never forgetting that.

  36. Winter camping 1995,
    -26C overnight in a small tent,
    by morning the frozen condensation inside was 1/2in thick.

  42. It was minus 50 C one morning, walking across the U of Saskatchewan campus to the Engineering building. By the time I got out again it had gone up to minus 45; nickel and dime.

    I came to no harm, of course I was dressed for it. I think the coldest I’ve ever been in my life was not even seriously cold. I went for a walk one bright winter afternoon along Lake Ontario in the west end of Toronto. It was only about minus 2, but I was a bit lightly dressed and when the wind picked up, I thought I was going to die.

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