[TheForge] Tap & Di cold tap..OT

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer artgawk at thegrid.net
Tue Dec 16 21:28:46 EST 2008


Yup;
It may be winter pretty soon..pf

Jerry Frost wrote:
> It is warmer here, it was hitting -6 a couple days ago but has warmed up 
> to 11 above this morning. It's typically 5-6* colder at the top of the 
> hill and up to 10-15* colder at the bottom. I picked a spot on the 
> hillside to build so the cold air would flow away from the house. It's a 
> survival trick to put your camp about 75' above the flats on a hillside 
> if possible.
> 
> A few miles up the highway it's been hanging in the -20f range, -10f 
> range closer to town and generally at least a few degrees colder almost 
> everywhere else.
> 
> I'd known about camping on a hillside for years but till I used the 
> trick to build the house and tracked the temps I didn't know just how 
> effective it really is. It's typically 4-5f colder just 100' away on the 
> flat spot where my shop is. I pity the fools who build in the hollow. . 
> . Brrrrr.
> 
> Keep warm Roger.
> 
> Frosty
> -------------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
> 
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
> 
> 
> From: "Roger Degner" <780 at mchsi.com>
> 
> 
> It is 12F below 0 here in southern Minnesota would that qualify.
> Hopefully this will not last over a week and then warm up
> Did not go to the shop today stayed in the basement and cleaned and 
> reloaded
> shotgun shells till it was time to go to my day job at 4pm
> Might be warmer in AK with Frosty than here.
> 
> Roger R Degner
> 
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