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12-Jan-2024 Alastair Norcross

14 Frozen Creek

Boulder

It was down in the teens last night, and will be below zero (Fahrenheit) tomorrow morning. I know that's nothing, compared with Minnesota, but it makes Arizona's slight freeze warning seem tropical.
Alastair

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Canon Image Challenge15-Jan-2024 13:31
I enjoy Jeff Foxworthys comedy, I always get a laugh out of him. Seems like he’s a southern boy though.

Back in the mid 1990s my old neighbor Ken moved to Colorado up in the mountains north of Woodland Park at roughly 8000 feet. He designed and drafted his own home plans then took them to a local architect to have him approve and seal them so he could get a building permit. After about 5 minutes of studying them his comment was “ you’ve drawn up plans for a beautiful Kansas home now let me revise them for a high elevation Colorado home”. 2x6 walls with R19 and 2x12 rafters on 12 inch spacing to handle the snow load, longer overhangs and triple pane windows were among the biggest changes I remember. Paul
Canon Image Challenge14-Jan-2024 17:05
Paul, one good article
https://www.startribune.com/why-the-definition-of-extreme-cold-is-different-in-duluth-and-dallas/600334828/

Jim
Canon Image Challenge14-Jan-2024 17:01
Paul
Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about Minnesotans:
1. If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you may live in Minnesota.
2. If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in Minnesota.
3. If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Minnesota.
4. If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Minnesota.
5. If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Minnesota.
6. If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back again, you may live in Minnesota.
7. If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you may live in Minnesota.
8. If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Minnesota.
9. If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Minnesota.
10. If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you may live in Minnesota.
11. If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you may live in Minnesota.
12. If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you may live in Minnesota.
13. If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you may live in Minnesota.
14. If you find 10 degrees 'a little chilly', you may live in Minnesota.
15. If you actually understand these jokes, and forward them to your entire Minnesotan friends & others, you definitely live in Minnesota.
Canon Image Challenge14-Jan-2024 15:41
Paul - neither are miserable. You can easily dress for the cold. In even colder times, our kids played more outside in MN then they did in Detroit -- the snow was dry, so they stayed dry. And MN knows how to plow snow - the roads are cleared quickly and there are very few school snow days.
The summer heat in AZ - quite bearable. Air conditioning in a house and car is a must for the middle of the day. And when you are outside, drink lots of water. Lots of folks play golf in the morning and late afternoon. I have played mid day in a cart with lots of water. Shade does feel pretty good, though. I much prefer the dry 110 deg heat in AZ to a 90 deg summer day in Minneapolis with 90% humidity.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge14-Jan-2024 00:32
So the question we should ask is would the bitter cold winters of Minnesota be more miserable than the extreme hot summers in southern Arizona. Then which one seems to last the longest.

I believe we only have one person qualified to answer that question. Paul
Guest 13-Jan-2024 17:23
Sounds like "built to code".
Canon Image Challenge13-Jan-2024 03:40
I agree, it is all relative.
But MN houses are generally built with good insulation and windows, knowing that the winters can really get cold.
AZ builders haven't figured that out yet.

Jim