Miata Mailing List: December 1999, Message #395

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Coldest I have ever been in was delivering pizzas in college for Donimo's
Pizza in Akron, Ohio on New Year's Eve back in 1993 and the wind chill was
around  -80 F.  I had an '81 Rabbit Wolfsburg edition at the time and it
handled the cold rather well.  Needlessly to say we very busy that night.
The only other cars I saw on the road were police and Pizza Hut drivers :)

I bet it was the safest New Year's Eve on record since everyone stayed home
that year :)


----- Original Message -----
From: Sue <schally@ptialaska.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <miata@realbig.com>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: Test, & a question about temperature (LMC)


> <.  I've done a couple of top-down days in the 30's, so we're
> >not talking Alaska (Hey Sue, what's the coldest you've had your top down
> ?).>
>
>
> What ARE you guys, nuts?  You win, you're tougher than me.  I driven as
cold
> as minus 78F....but absolutely not the Miata.  You'd be amazed at what it
> feels like trying to drive when every fluid in the car (most likely
> including your blood) is frozen stiff.
>
> Top down limit for me is about plus 45F or so.....I'm getting old and have
> developed this unreasonable hatred of pneumonia....  :-}
>
>
> OK, I can't resist telling you guys another cold weather story (hey, we
> don't have much else to talk about up here this time of year....but then,
we
> don't have to worry about not having a White Christmas......or Halloween.
> Or Easter.......and in a bad year, Mother's Day).  But I digress....
>
> When it is super cold - like below minus 60F - the story goes that if you
> take a cup of boiling coffee outside and toss the liquid up in the air,
that
> it will freeze solid before it hits the ground.  Cool, huh?
> OK, the winter we got to -78F, I tried this....but found it isn't true at
> all.
> Dang, there goes a good story...
>
>
>
>   What actually happens is that it turns into a cloud and floats away.
>
> Yes, really.
>
>
> Sue and Panther
> North Pole, Alaska
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