Bundle up, friends and neighbors. It's about to get a bit nippy.
22 thoughts on “January 14, 2024: The Big Chill”
It's currently -22 in beautiful Gettysburg, with a wind chill of -51. I'm sure it's not a record, but it's certainly cold enough.
after like -10, number dont matter its just COLD
I had to look it up, the coldest day I ever experienced was -41 F on December 19, 1983 in St. Cloud. The low temp the next day was -35. I remember we brought batteries inside to warm up, then slid garbage can lids full of charcoal under the engines to get the oil and everything else warm. Once we got one car running we used it to jump start the others, it took two or three hours to get all of the vehicles behind the fraternity house up and running that day.
I remember the propane tank liquified once at the house by Park Rapids. My uncle came over to put charcoal briquets next to the tank so we could heat the house….
The trick is to not heat it in a flash.
That was the same pre-Christmas 1983 cold where I experienced -46°, and it was a strong wind so no telling what the wind chill was.
I remember doing the charcoal thing under my car once or twice in college. In retrospect, hot coals and questionable engineering in an early-1970s engine doesn't seem the safest thing in the world.
Came across this old photo from a game at the Met in the 70's. That's Joe Nossek (former Twin) coaching 3rd base for the Brewers, so that narrows it down to a game during the 73, 74 or 75 season. pic.twitter.com/N41sl6WavF
[Ed: cleaned it up for you. links have to say “twitter” instead of “x.com”. small annoyance, but i hope that plugin never gets updated.]
i’ll post the answer from the wgom account if you guys figure it out.
Looks like it was figured out in the comments.
I see one game picked out but it isn't right. Without a higher resolution image, I don't think it can be figured out.
Other helpful points in the comments:
-Twins didn't wear red crown hats until '76
-Brewers had another third base coach that wore #24 in from '76-'77.
There are a couple of other player numbers that are theoretically visible, but the photo seems to have been taken with a potato (or someone’s 110 camera).
I don't really want the Packers to win, but them beating the Cowboys in Dallas would be hilarious.
I want them to lose so people won't spend the week complaining that they have to curl during the Packer game on a day they chose to curl on. Ugh, I hate football.
Love that they play "Controversy" during foul reviews for Wolves games.
Love that they play Controversy here whenever there's an excuse to
It's currently -22 in beautiful Gettysburg, with a wind chill of -51. I'm sure it's not a record, but it's certainly cold enough.
after like -10, number dont matter its just COLD
I had to look it up, the coldest day I ever experienced was -41 F on December 19, 1983 in St. Cloud. The low temp the next day was -35. I remember we brought batteries inside to warm up, then slid garbage can lids full of charcoal under the engines to get the oil and everything else warm. Once we got one car running we used it to jump start the others, it took two or three hours to get all of the vehicles behind the fraternity house up and running that day.
I remember the propane tank liquified once at the house by Park Rapids. My uncle came over to put charcoal briquets next to the tank so we could heat the house….
The trick is to not heat it in a flash.
That was the same pre-Christmas 1983 cold where I experienced -46°, and it was a strong wind so no telling what the wind chill was.
I remember doing the charcoal thing under my car once or twice in college. In retrospect, hot coals and questionable engineering in an early-1970s engine doesn't seem the safest thing in the world.
[Ed: cleaned it up for you. links have to say “twitter” instead of “x.com”. small annoyance, but i hope that plugin never gets updated.]
i’ll post the answer from the wgom account if you guys figure it out.
Looks like it was figured out in the comments.
I see one game picked out but it isn't right. Without a higher resolution image, I don't think it can be figured out.
Other helpful points in the comments:
-Twins didn't wear red crown hats until '76
-Brewers had another third base coach that wore #24 in from '76-'77.
There are a couple of other player numbers that are theoretically visible, but the photo seems to have been taken with a potato (or someone’s 110 camera).
I don't really want the Packers to win, but them beating the Cowboys in Dallas would be hilarious.
I want them to lose so people won't spend the week complaining that they have to curl during the Packer game on a day they chose to curl on. Ugh, I hate football.
Love that they play "Controversy" during foul reviews for Wolves games.
Love that they play Controversy here whenever there's an excuse to
Awoooooo
Love that the new addition is the disrespectful pointing from SloMo and Luka. RSwany (the creator on reddit of these) is the best
What up with the spinning shoes at the beginning?
I believe those are Ant's recently released signature shoe.
Indeed. On the secondary market for a buck fifty. I’ll keep my run the jewels sb highs.