Poll: Would you rather put up with extreme heat or bitter cold?

whichever pays better.

 

No bigger baby about the cold than this Canuk. Depends Hot hot and cold you think it is.
Most Americans (Please people, NOT ALL) think its cold when I go there to warm up.
Also depends how hard you work. If you can't feel your fingers (or other parts) or if they
actually start to feel warm again in the cold, you are in danger of losing them.

A/C is a great invention when it works, but I spent the last two years when the only time the
A/C seemed to work was when it got cold and my bunk heater would only make one cycle
before cutting out. Routine to wake up when your hand hits the frost on the bunk wall, so
you wake up again long enough to restart the heater. The danger is when you are so cold
you don't want to wake up.

 

I've lived in Denver CO and Yuma AZ...two different extremes at times....I prefer the heat...as long as it's a dry heat!

 

Kind of have the both of those here, record temps are 107 and -30 And I recall in the mid 1980s having a wind chill here around -85

 

I can deal with the heat when I get used to it but cold I can't.

The other day we had 16 degrees when I went to work with 23 mph winds. My truck is parked indoors and chaining the load down wasn't a problem but when I got to my first stop and had to unchain the two dies they were getting, my hands hurt within ten minutes. By the time I dropped off my last die, they were just killing me. Nothing warmed them up, the heated gloves I had on were barely keeping my hands warm.

 

Heat...with a breeze.

 

I'll take the cold. You can always put more clothes on. You can only take so many off.

 

Yeah, when your finished tarping in the heat you sit in the truck in front of the AC for a while hoping you don't pass out. Then you wipe yourself down and change shirt, socks, and underwear and then sit down in front of the AC some more.

When you finish tarping in the cold you get in the truck and take some clothing off. your fingers might be too cold and stiff to do paperwork but you are ready to roll in short order.

 

I would take the heat any day. I am from Florida so I have very thin blood!
When I go to my wifes place in Thailand everyone wants to point a fan at me to cool me off.
If I move a little someone will notice and move the fan so it blows back on me.
They think because I am a foreigner that I can't stand heat.
If I had my choice it would be like my uncle always said:
I don't like my temperature the same ALL the time..
I like 73 in the summer and then 72 in the winter

Jim

 

Obviously heat,

I lived in Michigan for 13 miserable years!
I can even remember my brother telling me how great it was, "You can ride the snow mobile to 7-11!"
Arrgh!


Jim