With news of a snowstorm in the Midwest, this is a good time of the year to start telling all the new residents about our brutal winters....You know, where we make ourselves sound incredibly hardy. I know from my days in the car business its a great selling point for SUVs as people are so conditioned when they arrive, they really think they have to have one.
We all know that while there is some rough weather, most of the winter is just 32 and overcast and the roads are cleared so quickly that travel is hardly a problem.
It's always good to quote the temperatures in wind chill, as it makes it sound worse....and go ahead and subtract a few extra degrees, because nobody checks on it.
Winter is coming, and go ahead and enjoy the look of angst and fear on the faces of those Southerners as we recount the embellished tales of our frontier existence.
3 comments:
Pretty funny Mayor. The Times should pay you to write a weekly piece.
Even around here no one seems to know that a two wheel drive with an average set of snow tires will outperform a four wheel drive with the best all season tires.
No exception to that ignorance in EMS either. That's why every sheriff and fire chief can justify the vehicle they never used to have in the old days of studded snows.
But you really ought to get a job outside for a month or two. Or else read a physics book.
Windchill is not a fallacy. Try blowing on a bite of hot food for just a few seconds and you can eat it, but take another bite five minutes later without blowing on it and you will likely still burn your mouth.
Comfort is about how fast heat is coming out of your body. Temperature is only one factor. Wind, humidity and radiation are every bit as important. The average air leakage around windows will cut the energy performance of windows in half, over those with low air leakage.
Or in the other extreme, look at what a convection oven does to the cooking times of food. That is not a hurricane going on inside a convection oven, just a slow breeze will cut cooking times in half.
Actually, 2:19, what you wrote is much funnier! Using "The Times" and "pay" in the same sentence is evidence of comedic genius.
Jeff isn't nasty enough to write for the Times.
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