Calvin45
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That's a reasonably nice day up year this time of year - note that the -17 is in celcius, it's 1 degree Fahrenheit. When dressed for the weather it's inconsequential, I think my two youngest sons would play outside in that just about all day if they didn't have to stop to refuel from time to time
This is a very ordinary day, here's some screenshots from a post I made back in 2021, that was a cold and snowy winter here and on December 30 we got this, with the windchill factored in (and it was weird to have wind, normally at this temperature there isn't), -51 celcius or -60 Fahrenheit is actually too cold to be playing outside for long
. The air actually just hurts your face in that nonsense, until you stop feeling it entirely Yesterday morning we weee at -33 celcius, that's cold enough to take notice but not too cold to walk to work if ya have to
lol it's pretty fun, we go out with a guide, but we put these "traps" called hoop nets which are basically hula hoops of different sizes with a net surrounding the outside with a weight and crab bait at the bottom and a little float on top to keep the structure like a basket. And you attach a long rope to another float or buoy that floats at the top of the water. The bait is usually fish carcasses from the day before. Anyway you drop the hoop net down to the bottom of the ocean floor, the crabs climb into the net. Once we are ready to pull the hoop nets we grab the floating buoy, hook the rope up to a crab pot puller which is basically like a winch with a boom extended out over the side of the boat reels up the line and pulls up the hoop net with crab in it.
