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Gonz

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There are reasons California is the golden state.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A blast of cold air sent temperatures plummeting early Tuesday with San Francisco breaking a 107-year-old mark and downtown Oakland also setting a new record for cold, according to the National Weather Service.

The cold wave dropped temperatures to 41 degrees in San Francisco overnight, to 38 in Oakland, to 27 in Stockton, 30 at the Santa Barbara airport and 37 degrees in Long Beach. The old records were 42 in San Francisco set in 1897, 40 in Oakland set in 1996 and 27 in Stockton first set in 1954.

Elsewhere, temperatures plunged to the 30s across much of California and to near-zero in some areas, forcing growers to closely monitor crops and social workers to scramble to find shelter for the homeless. One man was found dead outdoors in Santa Cruz.

A cold, dry airmass combined with clear skies and little wind sent night and early morning temperatures tumbling, triggering widespread freeze and frost warnings from the National Weather Service for a second night.

Los Angeles shivered at 39 degrees but it was colder elsewhere, including Los Angeles County's high desert city of Lancaster, which froze at 15. At high elevations, it was 2 at Alturas in the northeast corner of the state and 3 degrees at South Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada.
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*walkin in a winter wonderland*

The snowflakes were loonie sized when I was out this morning. Felt like I was getting slapped over and over again. :hmm:
 
Damnit Inky. You've got some wimpy ass tramps out there. One night of freezing and you've already got dead? Our first won't show up for at least another month, until the temps start finding the 15F range. And even then, it'll be something other than the cold that kills
 
Professur said:
Damnit Inky. You've got some wimpy ass tramps out there. One night of freezing and you've already got dead? Our first won't show up for at least another month, until the temps start finding the 15F range. And even then, it'll be something other than the cold that kills
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Psssssssssssst it's Gonz, Prof.

Thats something that I was thinking about the other day (I get REALLY bored at work, ok) how do Canadian tramps survive the winters?
 
amazing fortitude :blank:

It's really inexplicable. On really cold days, they'll open up all the government offices so that there is somewhere warm for everyone...and many will refuse to go, choosing to stay outdoors instead. Inexplicable how they survive.
 
Leslie said:
amazing fortitude :blank:

It's really inexplicable. On really cold days, they'll open up all the government offices so that there is somewhere warm for everyone...and many will refuse to go, choosing to stay outdoors instead. Inexplicable how they survive.
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Actually, a large part is just keeping their temp constant. They know that if they let themselves warm up too much, it'll just be that much colder when they go back out. So they only come in when it's dangerously (relative term) cold. That, and since most of them can't get a big, heavy parka, they dress in layers. When civilisation collapses, and most of us can't buy supplies, these guys probably won't even notice.
 
A lot of the homless don't make it past some of the nastier weeks in Montreal... stubborness and pride kill more homeless than malnutrition and accidents.

Most will come in if it drops past -20Cel. but not enough of them. The unlucky ones get picked up at 5am by the night patrol (the cops/coroners office)
 
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