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its cold

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:19 pm
by colemanyoungerinalaska
just went out on the porch to have a cigarette sat my ginger ale down when i started after i finished the smoke picked up my drink and it was froze bundled up tried to take pictures of my new car camera kept fogging up then tried to start the car it barely turned over its been warming up for 25 minutes now and still its cold

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:19 pm
by colemanyoungerinalaska
oh yeah im back in alaska done working got a few months off now

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:38 pm
by Ryan from Ohio
lol... Damned Alaska. Man I cant even begin to imagine how cold it is up there. It was cold down here a week or so ago...

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:40 pm
by Tim
Man I was whinin awhile ago that it was 31. That is probably a heat wave for them.

What do you do up there. it sounds like you are a crab fisherman, the way you said you got a few months off.

Tim

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:17 am
by colemanyoungerinalaska
just checked the temp its -28.9 °F
ive been on boats since i was 2 months old for the last 3 months maybe 4 ive been captain on a boat on the salt lake in utah they have a brine shrimp egg harvest down there in the summer i gilnet usually in the winter i do non destructive testing (xray ultrasonic eddy current magnetic particle etc) on pipeline or anything metal on the north slope but havent done that since last february. never liked crabbing done it once have an opportunity to do it again this year but the captain is one of those guys that likes to scream and yell. ill either go to bristol bay or the prince william sound for the summer. the bristol bay job also requires me to go to kodiak for a month. i think im just gonna go to the sound though. if all goes as planned ill have my own boat by next year then im never gonna work a regular job again ill just fish which isnt work to me

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:22 pm
by Tim
What part of Alaska are you in?? It sounds like you have an interesting life.

Hey I gotta ask you know any of the guys from Deadliest Catch?? haha

Tim

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:35 pm
by colemanyoungerinalaska
my older sister used to date the captain on the time bandit and ive drank with a few of the guys on the show at various bars most are regular people
i was born on kodiak island lived in a tent then a suburban the first few years of my life.
ive lived in wasilla or one of the surrounding communities since i was 12.
right now i am in chugiak about 15 miles from anchorage been waiting for this guy to show up to look at one of my vans to buy he just called and says he cant make it his car is froze. its only -14 now

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:34 pm
by NorthQuad
Do your balls hibernate? Mine usually don't leave their den 'till about March. Seriously, when peeing outside a guy has to be careful not to shake it too hard. You'll snap the knob right off. ha! This winter has been harsh in Alberta.