What’s It Like To Freeze to Death?

Cold. Then you fall asleep.

[quote]I'm shivering in my kitchen. It's about 60 degrees even with the oven on.

Sure, Sveta.

Such a sign of our uncivilized society, OP. Nobody should be allowed to freeze to death.

I keep a spare bottle of poppers in reserve just in case it gets too cold

I'm drinking microwaved cider with rye. It's good.

Where are you located OP?

Ugh. I found out. It sounds scary and you wet your pants, then you die.

Americans are so weird about the weather.

It gets cold in the winter and hot in the summer. The rest of the world accepts and deals with that, but Americans freak out. Why?

I got frostbit in both ears when I was 21 and that was scary as hell and then it was just like a bad sunburn. As for freezing to death, I always thought you just fall asleep...permanently.

OP why don't you go to a warming station if you are worried.

Julian Sands knows.

It's 34 below with wind factor right now. I have 3 space heaters running and it finally hit 64 degrees in my apartment. I have to wrestle my dog into toddler knee socks just for him to be able to pee. I consider myself to be fortunate. This weather will kill people and animals.

R6 I'm three T stops away from Greg.

r8, because a substantial amount of Americans live in places where they’re dependent on central heating and air conditioning to stay alive.

R10 Oh, I'm not worried about me. Blizzards are fun, this feels hellish.

R7 You get disoriented and panicky.

Jack London died in bed.

R8 I'm convinced most Americans suffer from BPD. Sad.

72 degrees in SoCal today.

You can get confused and your body actually can have the sensation of being hot at those temperatures. Some people even are found with their clothes off.

Am I the only one who thinks this actually sounds pain free and fun.

During freezing to death, sometimes you will get the sensation that you are burning up and take your clothes off to get cool. They find many people nude or just in their underwear.

R17 BPD is a young person's mental illness. Of course it can happen at any time of life, but I think it is more alongside narcissism.

Only on DL would a thread about weather turn to BPD less than 20 replies in

[quote] three T stops

Well, well. Very informative

R24 Red Line southbound.

Thank God it is R18, because it seems if the weather is anything less than perfect you all expect a national emergency to be declared.

It was -17 F without wind chill this morning here in Minnesota.

But it wasn’t really a big deal.

This is what happened to Casper the Friendly Ghost in the story.

I saw a weather report that the wind chill on Mt. Washington in Vermont would be -110 degrees tonight.

R28 I googled, you are correct, that's fucked up. Did they read Jack London?

It's pretty fucking cold here in general right now r29. it's dropped to 61 degrees in my apartment since I last posted. The wind is actually shaking my house. I may cry next time my dog asks me to take him pee.

It’s currently 4 degrees at 9:30 pm. I have taken the dog out for her last pee, she can shit in my bed for all I care. I am not going back out there.

I thought it was cold here in Michigan but New Hampshire is -12 right now.

It's 68f/20c here this evening.

-Hyphenland

-2

-I crossed over.

-I am in negative degrees.

R25, so Harvard Square?

53°F in Monte Carlo

What a strange time for Datalounge's posting quash to suddenly be lifted...

My kid’s in Montréal: -29c with -49c windchill (neither I, nor the rest of the world know or fucking care what your stupid, provincial American fahrenheit measurements indicate).

After a certain point, you lose the ability to shiver, and may feel hot (paradoxical undressing is a feature, as others have noted). I think at that point, your brain would be too addled to really know what’s happening. Sure, you may piss yourself, but who would really care at that point? I think, once you’ve passed the “incapable of shivering” stage and have entered the “terminal burrowing” stage, it’s likely pretty peaceful. 🤷🏻

[QUOTE](neither I, nor the rest of the world know or fucking care what your stupid, provincial American fahrenheit measurements indicate).

Did anyone ask?

R39 Your shitty attitude undermined anything you wrote after that.

R39 American Fahrenheit degrees are bigger, stronger and better looking than your effete, faggy C-word crap.

47 degrees here this morning. IN MY APARTMENT.

OP is a dolt, isn't she?

Sad.

But at least the thread gave us a boost with R43's news. Maybe it will get even colder there and someone will do a Jack London.

R44 People like you are useful for the sake of comparison.

R36 Southbound, babe. Can't afford Cambridge.

What's wrong with your HVAC, Rescue Chick? Can you supplement with a space heater or something?

If you have or can get a space heater, hunker down in your smallest room with it and close everything else off. Close your curtains, because cold air is pouring through your closed windows. Put on warm layers and get under a blanket.

You need to make a small space for yourself and concentrate the heat there to the greatest extent possible.

R42 is a simian faggot fuck as well.

R48 Why not reach behind you and pull that stick out of your ass? Live a little!

r47, I definitely need more insulation but it's impossible for heating to keep up with constant high winds of 45 below. I, for the first time ever, ran my oil filled electric heater in my bedroom last night but I am not comfortable running them downstairs when I am sleeping so I turned the downstairs ones on when I got up. we're up to a balmy 60 now and I keep blowing the fuse box because I have too many things running. I shut everything off now except for the heaters lol.

R50 I'm coming over with some soup.

R46 "Greg" doesn't live on or near the Red Line. He'd have to walk to Park Street from where he doesn't live.

R52 I avoid the Green Line at all costs. People tend to walk in large East Coast cities. You could use the exercise.

r51, we must have had a sympathetic mind meld moment - I just made and ate a big spicy bowl of soup 😋

I’d say it’s really cold.

In North, r6.

R53 is the view from my living room windows.

[quote] "Greg" doesn't live on or near the Red Line. He'd have to walk to Park Street from where he doesn't live.

R52, you are correct. I would take the Green Line from Copley to Park Street and then switch over to the Red Line.

But what do you mean, “…from where he doesn’t live?”

1C / 34F in Munich. Bit of wet snow, no wind.

It's 30 degrees here now! It was 10 degrees at midnight so I let my big guy out into the yard to play a bit because it was so nice and warm (comparatively). The murders of crows by my house are LOVING it today, they've blacked out the sky a few times and they're all I can hear outside. I"m happy they're happy (I love crows).

*sigh*

r42 was being scathingly satirical, and, did damn good job at it, about the USA's self-described "exceptionalism" and toxic-faux masculinity which compensates for basic chicken-shit insecurity.

At one time, perhaps not so long ago, DLers would've readily grasped and appreciated the biting humor and not just by the 7 and, now, 8 posters, who gave it a WW.

The DL is so over.

I'm sorry to hear that you're homeless, Greg. The view from your "living room windows" is at ground level in the middle of the paved path on the Commonwealth Avenue mall? I trust your tent is well insulated.

Fortunately, it's not quite so cold today in Boston. The temperature is all the way up to 47, so at least he's warmer. And the prunes won't freeze.

rescue-chic, when I would spend summers in NH (6 miles from the Canadian border) at my grandparents house There would always be crows and I loved them too. I found something soothing about them. I live in NW PA now and just recently have noticed all the crows and feel they are protecting me somehow. I read that many think they are bad luck but I have never seen them that way.

I was born, raised, still live here, and will die here in Northern Wisconsin.

While I realize that sentence is cause for pity among some of you, spare yourself; lucky me, I live exactly where I desire to.

I'm not here laugh at anybody in other regions not used to these types of temps, as I am.

Those cold conditions on the East coast are dangerous and nothing to fool with.

Stay safe.

Besides, according to hydrologists paid to study these things, due to climate change, the Great Lakes are not producing ice at the rates they used to. It's diminishing.

That's a long-term bad thing. The ice cover prevents the development of dangerous algea.

If the lakes keep warming, over time, the water won't be potable.

R63 FYI. They probably are: smart birds.

r65 yes, I always knew they were smart, maybe that's why I felt they were watching after me.

[quote] I'm sorry to hear that you're homeless, Greg. The view from your "living room windows" is at ground level in the middle of the paved path on the Commonwealth Avenue mall? I trust your tent is well insulated.

Yes, my tent is quite well insulated.

In case anyone is as stupid as you think, my fourth floor “living room windows” [not sure why you use quotation marks for that?] overlook the Comm Ave mall.

I don't know, OP. Why don't you try it and let us all know how it went?

And that photo is between Exeter and Fairfield streets. The statue is of Bostonian Samuel Eliot Morison, a maritime historian and avid sailor casually dressed and seated on a large granite rock.