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Charli

02-15-2009, 07:40 PM

William_Robinette

02-15-2009, 07:44 PM

Yes winter sucks. I cannot even imagine living more north then where I do now. We had 70 degree weather last week and the whole city came alive again, but we are now back in the 30's and it isn't fun. Those nights were it gets down to 22-25ish make me want to cry.

HorseFilms

02-15-2009, 09:33 PM

You are giant wimps.

William_Robinette

02-15-2009, 10:30 PM

I never claimed to be anything else. I'll take 70 degree weather year round please!

Zander

02-15-2009, 10:35 PM

You are giant wimps.
Agreed! I remember how it was negative 10 to 30 degrees during the majority of December and January.

HorseFilms

02-16-2009, 07:32 AM

I remember how it was negative 10 to 30 degrees during the majority of December and January.

Ah, good times.:beer:

JasonFox

02-16-2009, 08:02 AM

I remember shooting a commercial in LA in November several years ago. It was in upper 50's in the evening. Everyone from the agency, which was from KC, thought it was quite nice. We were all wearing light jackets. The LA folks were all wrapped up in scarves and fleece and downing coffee and cigarettes to stay warm. I would've mocked them, but as the writer I was probably the lowest-paid person on set. :beer:

Hawk Teflon

02-16-2009, 10:51 AM

When it's 50 degrees here, it can be crazy cold. Yes, I'm used to cold weather, but the wind in Oklahoma cuts like a knife through your clothing. You might as well not be wearing anything.

When it gets down into the teens, and the wind is "gusting" I try to stay indoors.

Andrew Brinkhaus

02-16-2009, 11:10 AM

I'm from the high elevation of Colorado, (7,544ft) where in the winter sometimes during the day it wouldn't even get above 10 degrees, so being out in LA even on days like this that are 40-50 degrees, I don't mind. :)

JConnors

02-16-2009, 11:15 AM

You are giant wimps.

I 2nd this.

I grew up where -30C was a common thing and you'd get 40-50cm snow all the time. When I was a kid, I can remember seeing snowbanks on the side of the roads 10-12 feet high.

I'll take snow and cold weather over, Hurricanes, Tornados, Fires, Floods and Earthquakes any day.

chris f

02-16-2009, 11:27 AM

You're telling me. I'll never forget last year when I first moved out here from Indiana walking into Whole Foods (I had never heard of WF until then, later I found out this is where the wimpiest of Californians shop, but I shop there now so what does that say about me....ha) I just got off of work and walked in wearing a t-shirt and pants thinking it felt pretty nice out and a lady walks out of the store with a Northface ski/winter jacket, ear warmers, and gloves. I think it was about 55 degrees out after sunset.

And don't get me started on the rain.... as soon as the first drop hits the pavement, everyone on the interstate comes to a screeching halt. You'd think we're having an astroids storm.

Charli

02-16-2009, 11:38 AM

Yes, we are wimps, but we are TANNED wimps, thank you very much. At least we can all the Vitamin D we need cuz everyone in California seems to be health minded, they jog, ride their bikes, go for walks, sit out in sun to read, so yes, if it's below 75, it's cold outside.

I'm wimpy. And plus it's rainy today, the only people walking are the hard-core addicts who will run in any weather and yes, there will be a few out there.

By the way, for you people up north, what's a scarf? bawhwahahahahahaha

commalot

02-16-2009, 11:49 AM

You are giant wimps.
Tell me about it!! My wife and I almost moved to Idaho for retirement. Have a son that lives up there. We would have been ice cycles. It's weird though. We lived in Denver in the 80's and I remember going outside in a light shirt when it was 38 degrees and being comfortable. Low humidity I guess.

HorseFilms

02-16-2009, 11:53 AM

By the way, for you people up north, what's a scarf? bawhwahahahahahaha

No clue. I wear a light jacket all winter. When the wind chill hits -50F, I think about zipping it up.:)

Brandon Rice

02-16-2009, 11:56 AM

Wimps? Or smart :D

I live in SoCal so I don't have to be cold... and when it is... it sucks...

Robbie Comeau

02-16-2009, 12:24 PM

Up to -10 here lately..

As soon as we hit 0, (32) it feels like t-shirt weather :)

Robbie

commalot

02-16-2009, 12:39 PM

When the wind chill hits -50F, I think about zipping it up

I believe you doth exaggerate.

Networker

02-16-2009, 12:51 PM

No clue. I wear a light jacket all winter. When the wind chill hits -50F, I think about zipping it up.:)

Wimp :)

JConnors

02-16-2009, 02:57 PM

Wimps? Or smart

What about the constant threat of fire that happens every year?

That alone would freak me out.

Again, I'll take 5 months of winter over the constant threat of living in the south.

When the wind chill hits -50F, I think about zipping it up

I believe you doth exaggerate.

I believe he isn't, Minnesota is one of the coldest places in NA.

I've also expierenced -50, but that was celsuis, non of that wimpy fahrenheit! :)

BobDiaz

02-16-2009, 05:06 PM

I live in Southern California, but went to Idaho for 2 weeks in January.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f103/KQ6WQ/Misc/DSCF0075.jpg

I have to say, it is NOT cold in Southern California!!!!
Even when the temperature on the family farm, where I stayed, hit 32 degrees F, it wasn't that cold either. :)

I do like being on the Farm in Idaho, you can go out in the back yard and shoot an egg with a 22....
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f103/KQ6WQ/Misc/Splat.png

:beer:

Bob Diaz

Zander

02-16-2009, 05:21 PM

No clue. I wear a light jacket all winter. When the wind chill hits -50F, I think about zipping it up.:)

I usually walk around shirtless with wet hair.

Thomas J. O'Hara

02-16-2009, 06:44 PM

I know it's not cold here in San Diego because I can go through a whole winter without turning on the heater, and our house has no insulation.

That, and there's parrots outside my house screeching right now.

HorseFilms

02-16-2009, 07:03 PM

I usually walk around shirtless with wet hair.

So you were the dude walking around the neighborhood frostbitten with the icicle head.:beer:

commalot

02-16-2009, 07:46 PM

Right now it's 53 degrees in Los Angeles and I'm cold.

Batutta

02-16-2009, 07:59 PM

I was in Edmonton over Christmas. They'd be going shirtless today.

Matty_g

02-16-2009, 08:09 PM

my house doesn't have heat and it's fucking COLD

adkimery

02-16-2009, 11:59 PM

chris f

02-17-2009, 12:23 AM

That, and there's parrots outside my house screeching right now.

I must have lived right by you. For about 3-4 months I woke up every morning to parrots screeching and didn't figure out what they were until one random day I looked up and saw a parrot and was flipping out. I looked around to see if anyone was looking for their lost pet. Later that week I walked by a tree full of them and finally realized that I'm not in Indiana any more and there is such things as wild parrots.

Brandon Rice

02-17-2009, 11:31 AM

The cold in LA seems to 'get in your bones' more than the cold I grew up w/back in the Midwest. Even when I go back for the holidays the cold there feels more 'brisk' than 'numbing' if that makes sense.

-A

Part of that is because it's so dry here... I'm convinced dry cold is colder than wet cold.

JConnors

02-17-2009, 11:41 AM

my house doesn't have heat and it's poo pooing COLD

How do you not have heat?

I suppose most house don't have a whole lot of insulation.

Matty_g

02-17-2009, 12:20 PM

because I live in l.a. .....

Kholi

02-17-2009, 12:23 PM

I got de_spaceheater right next to me in the office.

I'm from GA, I know cold well but I can say that I've gotten used to LA weather to the point where I can't handle the cold as well as I used to.

Jason Ramsey

02-17-2009, 12:38 PM

I'm trying to re-adapt to the cold. Just moved to Colorado. It hasn't been bitter cold here, but when you aren't used to it, it kinda sucks. When the wind is blowing, it sucks. When it's cold and snowing, feels oddly nice.

I lived in Alaska from 88 to '92 and like Robbie said, when it got up to 32F it was like a major shift. Felt so warm once you broke that freezing barrier. I remember playing nerf football out in the street in sweatshirt and sweatpants in 19F weather.

But, after 10 years in the deep south, I'm a wuss...

Later,
Jason

Postmaster

02-17-2009, 12:40 PM

Here, down south (Bavaria) today...

...I´m just saying :D

Frank

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Beat Takeshi

02-17-2009, 03:01 PM

HorseFilms

02-17-2009, 05:24 PM

Postmaster- That last picture is badass!:beer:

ConspiracyPenguin

02-17-2009, 05:31 PM

Where I live in California it gets quite cold (in comparison to the rest of the state). It's probably about 45 right now but it gets down there. We've been having a lot of wild snow storms lately which is kind of nice. I like it. :)

Thomas J. O'Hara

02-17-2009, 07:23 PM

I must have lived right by you. For about 3-4 months I woke up every morning to parrots screeching and didn't figure out what they were until one random day I looked up and saw a parrot and was flipping out. I looked around to see if anyone was looking for their lost pet. Later that week I walked by a tree full of them and finally realized that I'm not in Indiana any more and there is such things as wild parrots.

oh cool, where did you live?
I'm in OB, although I used to live in La Mesa and they were out there too.

Gord.T

02-17-2009, 08:08 PM

I like the cold because it lets me put on heavy cloths and hide the fact that I'm pretty well out of shape.

But even now, I'm wearing a wool sweater and have a heater going constantly maintaing a decent level but it's not siberia or anything. It's around zero. Camping weather.

And, I had a rabit living under the garage that came out in the mornings and we'd give it bread and what not up until a couple days ago. Now, there's a big fat black cat that's taken over that comes out for food and ducks back in. Mmmm, I'm, well, I hope to see that rabbit again.

Snow wise for you photogs, there's some very interesting formations in the snow banks around here as they melt that I think would be good to take a few shots of. I think if I had a macro is it(?) and a decent cam...

Oh yea, I still look like I'm oh maybe 20-30- 50 yrs old now. Not like you sun burnt prunes in L.A. We'll actually my booze and cigs intake probably puts me back on par, lol.

Thomas J. O'Hara

02-18-2009, 12:12 AM

I like the cold because it lets me put on heavy cloths and hide the fact that I'm pretty well out of shape.

Actually, one of the reasons I like warm weather is because you have a reason to be outside, and as a side effect you want to be in shape.

Nathyn

02-18-2009, 05:35 PM

It's only like 50F outside and I swear you see less people out cuz we think it's like freezing cold! I didn't go for a walk today, instead I cleaned house cuz it was a lot warmer to do, jeez, what would happen to me if I knew what real cold weather was like?

It's like that tv show the O.C. when the father said, it's cold outside, it's in the 70s!

Winter bites.

It was 60% here in Chicago and people thought it was spring. Today was a 439 degree day and people were pretty happy. Our coldest day was about 30 below 0 with the wind chill. Aside from living in Alaska or one of the poles, until you've been through a Chicago winter you don't know cold. I do have a friend who wants to move out there, she's an actress but also she simply can't take the weather here.

-Nate

Batutta

02-18-2009, 05:39 PM

Today was a 439 degree day and people were pretty happy.

Where do you live, planet Mercury?

adkimery

02-18-2009, 07:21 PM

It was 60% here in Chicago and people thought it was spring. Today was a 439 degree day and people were pretty happy. Our coldest day was about 30 below 0 with the wind chill. Aside from living in Alaska or one of the poles, until you've been through a Chicago winter you don't know cold. I do have a friend who wants to move out there, she's an actress but also she simply can't take the weather here.

-Nate

Yeah, I remember a few times back in college in the Midwest when it would spike up to the mid 30's w/sunshine and people were out in t-shirts.

-A

Nathyn

02-18-2009, 07:43 PM

Where do you live, planet Mercury?

Yes and it's very hot. LOL. It was a 39 degree day today.

Yeah, I remember a few times back in college in the Midwest when it would spike up to the mid 30's w/sunshine and people were out in t-shirts.

-A

On one of the coldest days (think below zero) there was a guy jogging in shorts. But he did have gloves and a hat on though.

-Nate

HorseFilms

02-18-2009, 07:47 PM

After this January, I've realized that I can handle anything. There were days when I would look at the forecast and say to myself, "Shit, the wind chill is only -15, that's not so bad." There were seriously several days where the wind chill was -40 to -50. It was crazy cold. We're finally getting out of that now, because February has been fairly mild with temps in the 20s and 30s. It seems tropical compared to what we had earlier this year.

Nathyn

02-18-2009, 07:52 PM

I think Chicago broke some records for the coldest day as well as the warmest winter day (about 60 degrees I think for one day).

-Nate

puredrifting

02-18-2009, 08:56 PM

Why does everyone not from California have this idea in their minds that everyone in California is fit, tanned and in shape? As a lifelong Californian, I call B.S.

Go to Disneyland or any shopping mall in SoCal and you will see just as many pasty, fat and out of shape people as you do in the South or Midwest. The only fit, tanned people are the actors or wannabees.

Common misconception.

adkimery

02-18-2009, 11:19 PM

Disneyland is full of fat Midwesterners on vacation. ;)

Seriously though, while not everyone in CA is ripped, people here do tend to have healthier, more active lifestyles than people in the South and Midwest.

http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/fattest-states-2008-big.gif

-A

Charli

02-19-2009, 10:33 AM

Because everyone in Cali is fit, beautiful and tanned, don't believe me? Go take a walk down Pacific Palisades park, this is where you'll see scenes from "Monk" "Private Practice" "Entourage" and trust me, spandex reigns supreme.

Only people who are chunky are out-of-towners.

JConnors

02-19-2009, 12:00 PM

After this January, I've realized that I can handle anything. There were days when I would look at the forecast and say to myself, "shi*, the wind chill is only -15, that's not so bad." There were seriously several days where the wind chill was -40 to -50. It was crazy cold. We're finally getting out of that now, because February has been fairly mild with temps in the 20s and 30s. It seems tropical compared to what we had earlier this year.

I can remember during our winters as soon as that hint of spring was in the air, off went the jacket. It's funny cos it's the opposite come The Fall.

Why does everyone not from California have this idea in their minds that everyone in California is fit, tanned and in shape? As a lifelong Californian, I call B.S.

I love this Onion article - http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28382 -

As a Canadian that visits the States 1-2 times a year, I can say that obesity is very
noticeable. Seriously, the size of food portions are just ridiculous. Everything is so cheap, from liquour to smokes to fast food. Also, everything has bacon or the option to have bacon on it.