Wow is it cold, but it is always horrible around my birthday. I had told the wife that the coldest day I could ever remember was on my 18th birthday, news said tonight that it was -22 on my 18th birthday. I can remember the air was just hard to breath, and here we are again.The temperature is not just a inconvenience for me, one of the worst possible things to happen would be a structure fire in temperatures like this. You get hot inside the fire , you come out then you are even colder. You end up wet, then you freeze. There is always the possibility the hose will freeze. All the gauges on the truck freeze up so you end up running the pump by feel. The road gets covered in ice. I also hope that I don't get put on top of the aerial 60'-100' above the street with the cold wind blowing on me. It is all a pain in the backside. Here is a fella having a bad day.
When I first went to Mom's house in NY I noticed one thing that made me not want to live there. I pointed out these long sticks with flags on the end, that were attached to the fire hydrants. I asked Mom if she knew what those were for, then explained that if there is a fire the firefighter knows were to dig in the snow to find a fire hydrant, I think I will pass on NY.
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Bob and I went to Auburn the other day. We saw one of the paid fire fighters digging out the hydrants that the snow plow had buried. it did not look like fun.
I am sure it is as cold there as it is in NY. We just get more wind and the drifting is bad.
Stay warm,
Mom
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