[Vision2020] Another Sunny Day in Moscow

[Tom Ivie]

My parents lived for a year in Harlem, MT.  I only went there in the early summer to brand cattle at Senator Bardineau's place and to photograph Bison on some friends' ranch.  We went up toward Canada to photograph abandoned homesteads.  I remember the sky being clear and not more than 10 min. later we were in a windy rain storm. My parents liked Harlem but not the winter and moved to Superior, MT for several years.

Darrell Keim <keim153 at gmail.com> wrote: 
 Geez.  I can't believe it has already been 12 years since that cold, and following floods.  Now I'm feeling my age.  Thanks for bringing that up.
  
 I grew up in Havre, MT.  45 below was not an unusual days high during the winter, and the wind almost never stopped.  I once went camping at 30 below (I've gotten smarter as I've aged.)    During school I'd go out over lunch to start the car, and let it idle long enough to warm-up, even though I had the radiator insulated and an engine heater plugged in.  Coldest I ever saw was 65 below.  That was simultaneously the days high and low!  The oil in my car froze.  If you spilled water on the ground it froze.  Instantly.   
  
 Havre gets so cold that the high school football team is called the "Blue Pony's."  
  
 Anybody ever heard of a nosecicle?  Ever have one?
  
 Later,
 Darrell

 
  On 22/01/2008, Warren Hayman <whayman at roadrunner.com > wrote:    During a six-year stint of living in Richmond, VA, my wife and I always chuckled when forecasters would use what became a stock cliche of "bitter cold" when the low was 20 or so. It would literally spawn a run on milk and bread at the grocery stores.  
  
 On the other side, does anyone recall 12 years ago today and tomorrow here in Moscow? We were living at the base of Moscow Mountain with a one-day-old baby. The temps were, at our house, recorded by an accurate Taylor max/min thermometer, in the -30's F with two feet of fallen snow. The drifts were so intense that I did not need a ladder to walk up to the roof to remove ice dams (yes it was that kind of house) with an axe and shovel. The later floods (Feb, I think) took out our driveway to the tune of an 18-inch channel twelve inches wide-- thank goodness for road graders with whom you have developed a friendship!  
  
 Warren Hayman
  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: keely emerinemix 
  To: Kai Eiselein, editor ;  bevbafus at verizon.net ; Moscow Vision 2020 ;  Tom Hansen 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:12 PM
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OK, like, once when I was growing up in Tucson the high was way low, like maybe 24.  And the heater in the Rambler kinda didn't even work real well.  Yeah.  Whoa.

(People from the Southwest never have good weather stories . . . )  

Keely




> From: editor at lataheagle.com
> To:  bevbafus at verizon.net; vision2020 at moscow.com;  thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:08:43 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [SPAM] Another Sunny Day in Moscow
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> Try taking photos at -60 f. Its quite the procedure. The photo is of a  
> January sunrise in Stebbins, AK about 20 years ago.
> Somewhere, I have photos of firefighters battling a blaze in Nome in 
> December. You could literally watch the water freeze as it flowed down the  
> street.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com  >
> To: <bevbafus at verizon.net>; "Moscow Vision 2020" <  vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:00 PM
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> > Moscow has nothing on the North Slope Borough School District (Barrow,  
> > Alaska) located (as they say) on top of the world
> >
> > http://www.nsbsd.org/site/  
> >
> > If you want a "sky box" for home football games, they suggest you build a
> > plywood enclosure on top of your truck at the REAL frozen tundra:
> >
> >  http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=tundra
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow,
> > Idaho
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