-10 Degrees in South Carolina!!

Well, not really, but it was chilly this morning.

My first stop this morning was the problem. I was there to change the sensor on a forklift door. I can do those in my sleep. What they neglected to tell me was it was inside a freezer.

I'm one of those people that's always hot. This morning it was 30 when I left the house. I had on a pullover fleece shirt and a heavy over shirt. No parkas, no insulated pants or socks and no warm hat, just normal every day wear for me. That doesn't cut it at -10 with a -20 degree wind blowing on you out of the evap coils in a freezer. I don't care what anyone says, that's COLD!!! I could feel the snot in my nose freezing. What should have been a 30 minute job took an hour. Fifteen minutes was all I could stand at a time before I would have to walk outside into 40 degree air to warm up. After 15 minutes I couldn't feel my hands, nose or ears and every time I walked out of the freezer my glasses would ice up. I used to think I would like living in the icy north. berkeley that, y'all can have it. I'm staying down here.

The cool part was the freezer was in the new Boeing plant in Charleston. It's where they store all the adhesives that are used for building the Dreamfire...I mean liner. I got to walk through the manufacturing building and the assembly building. Damn they are BIG. The assembly building will hold 6 Dreamliners. Think of the scale. You could hold an autocross inside the building. It's one continuous span, no columns and it's heated and cooled. The manufacturing building isn't much smaller. Everything in them is huge. Their autoclave would hold 4 tractor trailer rigs, not just the trailer, but the truck too. There's more CNC machinery than you can count. I'd love to spend a week just wandering around watching them work and figuring out what everything in there does.

No pictures though. Some of those places are pretty particular about photos and I didn't want to take the chance my first time on the property. Maybe next time.

Sounds pretty cool. And I'm not just making a pun there.

My response on the temp? Yeah...so? Sorry.

Uh... it's currently -22 here.

Bob Costas. Buy a toque and suck it up.

Lesley wrote: Uh... it's currently -22 here.

C or F? From toy's post, he is speaking in F, which would put him at ~-25C. Not to mention windchill from the air blowing. In other news, it was -35C in Fort McMurray today!

Yeah, I'm headed to fecking Anchorage on Saturday.

It's been -18 here for the last week or so. I don't normally remember stuff like weather, but the year I built my challenge car was the longest run of -25 degree weather I can remember. The heater (that I installed half way through) in my shop was good for 10 degrees, so -15 felt pretty toasty.

You get used to it.

I think it was like 6*F last night it wasn't bad except I spent most of the night on the driveway under the car. Knock sensor wire broke off the connector on the camry, and while fixing that found a ripped CV boot to add.

I wore a respirator when spraying the CV grease off. When I went to take it off there was an icicle hanging off the valve from exhaling.

Tomorrow is supposed to be a high of 37 deg F and raining. Yuck.

If only I had dressed for the occasion. It probably wouldn't have been that bad. The problem is they don't sell clothes like that in SC.

In the last 45 years the coldest I remember is 8F. Our average is around 60F. We just don't do cold. Hell you ought to see this town when it snows. Talk about a cluster berkeley.

I feel for you guys and gals dealing with cold like that. I guess you learn to deal with it and dress for it kind of like we do with the heat and humidity.

Stay warm.

I has natural insulation.

In reply to Curmudgeon:

You should have stayed on the coast. We're showing a high of 57.

And you are near as insulated as I am.

Easy, easy.

The river froze over here.......I'm waiting to hear sirens due to darwinism.....

Toyman01 wrote: I feel for you guys and gals dealing with cold like that. I guess you learn to deal with it and dress for it kind of like we do with the heat and humidity.

Once again, we reach the issue of not being allowed to run around nekked.

Thermometer said 3* when I walked into work this morning. Might try to find a pond and skate some today.

they store the adhesive in a freezer? Don't know anything about that kind of stuff, but it sure sounds odd.

...it's 75* here in Houston... I still wonder if/when we'll have winter... it did get down to the 30's for a few days... but it's mostly been rainy and in the 50's or so :-/...

This morning in Maryland:

Gearheadotaku wrote: they store the adhesive in a freezer? Don't know anything about that kind of stuff, but it sure sounds odd.

Increases shelf life and when it is probably at least $500/qt with only a week shelf life.......

screw that.. it is 75 here in the house and I am cold.. might have to do with me being 5'11 and only 170 pounds. I has no natural insulation.

The Boeing plant sounds neat though. I did a job in Philly once at Augusta aerospace, where they build the helos.. that was cool.. seeing where the build the BIG planes sounds like a bucketlist entry

Gearheadotaku wrote: they store the adhesive in a freezer? Don't know anything about that kind of stuff, but it sure sounds odd.

we stored ours ( where I used to work ) in a freezer .....

It’s 55 F here in Southern California at the moment with 15 inches of sand on the beach.

Brrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

It was in the mid-70's this afternoon. I changed the oil, and felt great about it. Took a ride on the bike, and felt pretty great about that too.