NWI INGO General Post - Part 21 - We can offically drink da moonshine!

[HoughMade]

So, I went out for my morning walk this morning, 5 degrees....but I have walked at this and lower temps before.

What I have never experienced before is that after walking about 400 yards, I got a static shock to both ears, I assume from my hood. Then I got a static shock to both ears about every 50 yards thereafter. Just painful enough to be unpleasant.

I'm starting to suspect unusually dry air and more nylon than the past.

 

[mmpsteve]

So, I went out for my morning walk this morning, 5 degrees....but I have walked at this and lower temps before.

What I have never experienced before is that after walking about 400 yards, I got a static shock to both ears, I assume from my hood. Then I got a static shock to both ears about every 50 yards thereafter. Just painful enough to be unpleasant.

I'm starting to suspect unusually dry air and more nylon than the past.

Didn't you just get that fancy new satellite-ray-beam TV?

just sayin ...

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[HoughMade]

Didn't you just get that fancy new satellite-ray-beam TV?

just sayin ...

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Satellite ray beam internet....but the point stands.

Elon is after me.

 

[klausm]

I'm in, who's getting me stoned in public?

Road trip to Michigan? I"ll drive

 

[Ballstater98]

Satellite ray beam internet....but the point stands.

Elon is after me.

 

[melensdad]

Here we go with eLearning. Lake Central just called it tomorrow.

Why?

 

[klausm]

here Kitty, Kitty

 

[Ballstater98]

Any chatter about Hobart? I was figuring they'd do a 2 hour delay

Officially an eLearning Day in Hobart.

 

[jedi]

here Kitty, Kitty

U rang

 

[Ballstater98]

Why?

"Severe Windchill Factor"

 

[HoughMade]

"Severe Windchill Factor"

It's just too easy these days:

Eagle Lake Elementary, Edwardsburg, Michigan circa 1978: "the wind chill's going to be 30 below...should we cancel school?"

"For cold temperatures? We're going to need those snow days for when we get 3 feet of snow and we physically can't get the school doors open. Tell you what, they can play board games in their classrooms for recess."

 

[tv1217]

This closing schools thing is either a relatively recent phenomenon or an Indiana thing. I can probably count on one hand the number of times growing up in IL(South Holland) my schools closed for cold or snow. It had to be Jedi's feets and feets of snow or a daytime high below before the wind chill.

 

[Snapdragon]

Yup. We wore snowpants under our dresses in elementary school and bundled up with mittens, hats, scarves, and a warm coat. I doubt that most kids now even have really cold weather clothes.

 

[tv1217]

Yeah the technology they have for just clothing in the past 20 year or so is insane. I had coats stuffed with a bunch of feathers or synthetic fluff when I was a kid but now they have stuff almost as thin as a typical hoodie that will keep you just as warm.

 

[tv1217]

I need to be careful here or I'm gonna start recounting the days I had to walk to school in inclimate weather.

 

[CTC B4Z]

Don't you dare.

 

[tv1217]

26 miles in the liquid methane, entirely vertically, three ways(Because we lived on Titan in a 4 dimensional universe at the time)

 

[jedi]

Don't you dare.

Scared?

 

[rhamersley]

 

[Snapdragon]

I never got to ride a school bus. Elementary school was nearly a mile away and high school a mile and a half. Walked to elementary school every day and high school most days until I started driving. My mom was a teacher and had to get to her own job.