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Message started by PerrydaSavage on 01/18/11 at 02:57:41

Title: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by PerrydaSavage on 01/18/11 at 02:57:41

Rise and shine folks! PerrydaSavage is coming at you this morning from the town of Churchill Falls, smack dab in the interior of Labrador and home to one of the largest hydro electric power projects in the world ... right now at 6:50am its a bone chilling -29 deg Celsius! Brrrrrrrr!!! Shoulda packed my woolies!

Sent up here for a few days to oversee some engineering retrofits to a vehicle maintenance shop ... I have NEVER experienced cold like this before!

http://lh4.ggpht.com/MartinDKtm/SKnr3UZNxhI/AAAAAAAAAZc/z5fmI2r5mHA/s400/IMG_0324.JPG

Have a great day folks!

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by prechermike on 01/18/11 at 03:46:03

Cool Perry, that is about -20 farenhieght for us in the states. It is a balmy 39 here this morning.

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by babyhog on 01/18/11 at 05:13:37

That's a beautiful picture Perry. Hope you get to have some fun while you're there.

And once I see a minus sign, that's just downright COLD, no matter what you put behind it. So I'm sending you a big warm HUG.

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by Jerry Eichenberger on 01/18/11 at 07:37:14

Perry -

Since you're an engineer, plesae explain to me the common sense of using Celsius (centigrade to us OFs) instead of Fahrenheit, which is far more accurate.

In Celsius, water freezes at 0 and boils at 100; so there are 100 degrees between the two points.

In Fahrenheit, water freezes at 32, and boils at 212, so there are 180 degrees between the same two reference points. Almost twice as many as in Celsius.

But unless you express temperature in fractions of a degree, Celsius is far less accurate. So why does the world want to use a less accurate method of measuring temps?

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by John_D FSO on 01/18/11 at 08:16:11

Awesome pic, and I'd LOVE to go riding snowmobiles, haven't done that in many years. But that's just pretty dang cold, no matter what scale you're using! :o

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by PerrydaSavage on 01/18/11 at 08:36:38

Here in the work camp now, having a lunch break ... still -20 deg C or so ... still cold enough to freeze the balls on brass monkey preachermike!

Jerry; I have NO friggin' idea bud!! LOL!! We use the Celsius scale for temp. ONLY because the Canadian govt. deemed it so back in the late 70's ... prior to that we used the same systems of measurement as you Yanks ... excepting for gallons ... our gallons were larger than yours ... now our liters are smaller! LOL!!

Babyhog ... thanks for the BIG, warm hug!

John ... I didn't take that pic ... it's one I scabbed off of the Internet to give y'all an idea what the lay of the land is like all the way up here! And yes, riding snowmobiles is fun ... but not as fun as motorcycles!

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by Driller on 01/18/11 at 10:00:06

Still a great pic.
I had one season on a sled. Of course the year I got it was one with little or no snow in Southern Maine. We had to haul the rigs up to Aroostook County and Quebec to get some decent riding in.
My wife made me get rid of it the next year. She did not like me coming in smelling like a chain saw exhaust! ;D
No, they don't compare to riding a bike IMO. Staying off the bikes during the winter just makes you look forward to and appreciate the coming riding season.

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by kimchris1 on 01/18/11 at 11:19:47

Jeeze Perry, that is plain cold where your at. What in the world did you do to warrant being sent to that cold of an area? Did you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar again? ;)
Sending you warm hugs and will have a cup of hot coco for you. Take care and send pics if you can..Take care, :) kim

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by runwyrlph on 01/18/11 at 12:07:57

636C606A616C676B6C7B6E6C7B090 wrote:

I only use the Kelvin scale, personally!
;D

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by verslagen1 on 01/18/11 at 12:14:02

3C2B353B3B3721580 wrote:

[quote author=636C606A616C676B6C7B6E6C7B090 link=1295348262/0#3 date=1295365034]Perry -

Since you're an engineer, plesae explain to me the common sense of using Celsius (centigrade to us OFs) instead of Fahrenheit, which is far more accurate.

In Celsius, water freezes at 0 and boils at 100; so there are 100 degrees between the two points.

In Fahrenheit, water freezes at 32, and boils at 212, so there are 180 degrees between the same two reference points. Almost twice as many as in Celsius.

But unless you express temperature in fractions of a degree, Celsius is far less accurate. So why does the world want to use a less accurate method of measuring temps?

I only use the Kelvin scale, personally!
;D[/quote]
Rankine is more precise. ;D

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 01/18/11 at 12:31:15

Once "Miserable" is reached, what the temp is becomes purely academic.
But, If I am stuck out in it, I wanna know what it is, so I can justify all the whining.

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by runwyrlph on 01/18/11 at 13:24:52

33203736292422202B74450 wrote:

[quote author=3C2B353B3B3721580 link=1295348262/0#8 date=1295381277][quote author=636C606A616C676B6C7B6E6C7B090 link=1295348262/0#3 date=1295365034]Perry -

Since you're an engineer, plesae explain to me the common sense of using Celsius (centigrade to us OFs) instead of Fahrenheit, which is far more accurate.

In Celsius, water freezes at 0 and boils at 100; so there are 100 degrees between the two points.

In Fahrenheit, water freezes at 32, and boils at 212, so there are 180 degrees between the same two reference points. Almost twice as many as in Celsius.

But unless you express temperature in fractions of a degree, Celsius is far less accurate. So why does the world want to use a less accurate method of measuring temps?

I only use the Kelvin scale, personally!
;D[/quote]
Rankine is more precise. ;D[/quote]

cool - learned someting new today!

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by Serowbot on 01/18/11 at 21:51:46

Down here,... we question the sanity of people in that kinda' weather...
... and that pains me, Perry... 'cause I think you're smarter than me...

Stay warm...

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by PerrydaSavage on 01/19/11 at 02:22:11

No way I'm smarter than you Serowbot ... or anyone else here at Suzukisavage.com for that matter!

As for my sanity ... well, that's a whole other issue ... but up here in the Great White North, you do what ya gotta do if ya wanna keep the bank off of your back!

BTW, here in Churchill Falls it's positively tropical this morning as compared to yesterday ... it's up to -20C! ;)

Will be heading back down south to St. John's in a few days ...

Have a great day folks!

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by buttgoat1 on 01/19/11 at 09:40:20

after this, you'll probably be wearing shorts and t shirts at spring thaw
and feel like your breaking a sweat

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by bill67 on 01/19/11 at 10:01:22

Being in construction the coldest I every worked was 15 below on a roof,Work for 1/2 and hour and warm up for 10 minutes,Being in business you can make a little money that day or go home and play with the baby's mother and not made any money.

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 01/19/11 at 16:05:14

Its so danged cold there he could mail me an ice cube & it'd still be froze when it gets here.

Title: Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Post by PerrydaSavage on 01/20/11 at 05:49:48

So true Justin! LOL!!

Anyhoo ... if y'all are interested in reading about Adventure Riding of the motorcycle variety, the Trans-Labrador Highway is one of the few true Rural Adventure Rides left in North America ... journeys along this route typically start in Baie Comeau on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec travelling north on Route 389 which becomes Newfoundland Route 500 at the western Quebec-Labrador border, continues east thru Labrador City, on to Churchill Falls and Happy Valley-Goose Bay then south and east on Route 510 to coastal Labrador, finally terminating at the town of Blanc Sablon on the Quebec side of the southern Quebec-Labrador border ... a circuitous route of approx. 1500kms (950 mi) ... the TLH has become a popular destination for Dual Sport and ADV Riders. You can check out some of their Ride Reports here;

http://www.ridetherock.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6077

http://www.silliker.ca/2009/04/taking-road-less-traveled-trans.html

http://www.goldensextant.com/TransLab.html

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=482817&highlight=Trans

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=650193

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=491784

Website about the Trans-Labrador Highway here;
http://www.artistic.ca/dteed/labrador.htm

http://www2.artistic.ca:8989/artistic/dteed/photos/highway-dteed.jpg

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