Mike CHS
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I worked as a contractor for the agency that supports the Antarctic Research Program. Our folks did Air Traffic Control from New Zealand down to Ross Island where the center was.
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I worked as a contractor for the agency that supports the Antarctic Research Program. Our folks did Air Traffic Control from New Zealand down to Ross Island where the center was.
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Oh wow. Is that program involved with CRREL? Seen some cool stuff from some of the guys there, one came to speak at a school I worked at. Their main office is less than a half hour from me.
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Forecast says up to 8 inches of the fluffy white stuff tomorrow night into Monday... Here we go. At least we'll have a white Christmas!
Always truly enjoyed looking out in the morning after a fresh overnight coating of snow. Everything so clean and white. The sparkles from the early morning sun just so bright.
Then the plows go by and wreck the landscape view, then you have to actually go outside and work in it, and everything gets wet and cold... Oh, and wet. Then when you drive, all that gravel and salt and chemicals they put on the roads get all over your car and you get chipped paint and cracked windshields & over time damages the paint. I learned to hate magnesium chloride... Yeah sure, it doesn't freeze till -30 or somesuch, but it picks up every bit of dirt from the road and coats your car and windshield & that stuff is very difficult to get off. And it stains/ruins aluminum tire rims. Then it melts and you get all that glorious mud...
Yeah, I think I'm ok down here
Then the plows go by and wreck the landscape view, then you have to actually go outside and work in it, and everything gets wet and cold... Oh, and wet. Then when you drive, all that gravel and salt and chemicals they put on the roads get all over your car and you get chipped paint and cracked windshields & over time damages the paint. I learned to hate magnesium chloride... Yeah sure, it doesn't freeze till -30 or somesuch, but it picks up every bit of dirt from the road and coats your car and windshield & that stuff is very difficult to get off. And it stains/ruins aluminum tire rims. Then it melts and you get all that glorious mud...
Yeah, I think I'm ok down here
Mike CHS
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They do things at the same places but they aren't related. CRREL provides scientific support and programs. The ATC folks are all a bunch of retired military controllers.
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Cool. So, what's the coldest temp you've experienced?
Mike CHS
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We were only in Antarctica when it is their summer and rarely gets much under -35 or so. One summer an advance team had to go in early and it was something like -84 degrees there. Some of those guys have been going there every year for 20 years so I was happy to only go for a visit.
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Haha WOW no thanks. It gets to - 25 occasionally here. It is not fun. At all.
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Well it's 2 degrees here. Wahoo! 
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We woke up to a balmy 65! 
