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Fairbanks Alaska - 48 degrees (that's 80 degrees below freezing if you have never experienced it). Anchorage 22 below zero. Been that cold for a

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I've got a daughter that lives just outside of Fairbanks. Tried to use her key in the door which she couldn't do with gloves on. Then forgot and touched the metal door with her bare fingers. She lost the first layer of skin on her fingertips.
 
Below -60f, tires feel like they are square all day, older vehicles were replacing fuel pumps every couple of days. Streets were littered with black snakes ( fan & altenator belts ).

Drove cab that particular winter, nobody walked a block if there was even a chance of getting a cab. Visability was limited by ice fog,normal around settlements in very low temps. and one drove looking through a small saucer sized hole, the windshield & windows being glazed with up to a 1/4" of ice. Kid you not ! Made several trips of 9 miles out to the airport,the exhaust plume from a long gone vehicle would literally just lie on the road and be visible for several miles. Had to knock off those trips though, customers heading out south were dressed only for southern cities; just too dangerous for them.

One side of our apartment building was elevated 10 feet or so above sloping ground, on pilings with seismic bracing. Below -40, ravens would perch on the bracing and coming down the stairs just there,we would be 8 to 10 feet apart,eyeing each other carefully, they wouldn't move and we honoured the truce too.They looked to be wearing frosted white moustaches! Highly intelligent birds,that bit of heat loss from the building was worth the risk. They couldn't know that no body would be tempted by raven soup !( Probably even worse than eating crow)

Light aircraft with retractable gear parked at -45-50F. Metal fatigue and hydraulics being of concern. Highway guys were blowing hoses on motor graders on the ice roads;I got them in some synthetic fluid, seemed to solve the problem. One government dept.,staffed by idiots who all had university degrees, were cooking auto. transmissions on gov't cars. They would not listen to me or my shop guys; no way. Finally I made the mechanic foreman remove the oil pan heaters we used and stick them on the trannies. Worked a charm ! Read this far, you should be shivering... I am. Snowing now in my tropical Victoria; several inches last 48 hours, streets slick with ice tonight. Phooooey !

Truck photo; instead of "wash me" or " dirty gertie" some clever wag came up with this line !
 
Anchorage was socked in so we had to fly on to Fairbanks. I have never been so cold!!!! The wind chill was -30!!! What really got us though, was the guy that was sweeping the hall in the barracks. He heard us talking about how cold it was and started laughing. He told us we should have been there the week before when it was really cold...he said we were there during a heat wave!!!!:thumbdown: He may have been having a little fun at our expense, but I am not sure!!
 
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