Re: [DL] Realism

[Frempath2@netscape.net]

Yup, thats fairly accurate.
I recall the winter of 84/85, 38 days of sub-zero (-18C) weather.  The wind chill one night at 2 am was -184 degrees Fahrenheit (-120C).
On the other hand there was the year I was tricked into getting a motorcycle in February by 2 weeks of +80 degree (27C) weather before the blizzards hit.

For winter though, hit them with a real blizzard.  The others can probably attest to these to.  The really bad ones start with a nice day usually, 40 - 50 degrees and sunny.  These storms hit FAST.  In less than an hour the temperature will fall 30-50 degrees, the wind will kick up to 40+ mph, and the snow will be falling at several inches (2.54 cm/inch) per hour.  Visibility is about the length of your arm.  Drifts can be over 20 feet (6.5 m) high.  If you are caught in one of these on foot, God better be watching and taking an active interest in your survival or you are a gonner.

So lets recap, Ghosts, aborigonals, summer weather, winter weather, isolation, buffalo heards (decreasing rapidly), grasshopper storms.  
What the heck were my ancestors thinking!?

Kevin Jameson


"Daniel Gwyn" <dgwyn@colba.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>    Having lived in Southern Quebec most of my life, and having spoken with
>Westerners a fair bit on the subject of winter, I think it would be fair to
>say that Nebraska winters are actually worse than my neck of the woods.  My
>impression of winter Nebraska is of cold (-20 C) or worse temperatures, dry,
>relatively little snow, but a lot of wind which blows the snow around and
>introduces lots of windchill.  Southern Quebec and by extension New England
>are relatively balmy at around -10 C, more snow and less wind.
>          Daniel
>"Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all."
>     Hamlet, Act III, scene i.
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Nick Zachariasen <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>
>À : deadlands@gamerz.net <deadlands@gamerz.net>
>Date : April 15, 2003 9:03 PM
>Objet : Re: [DL] Realism
>
>
>>> How's the winters over there btw ?
>>> Where does it snow, how cold does it get and so on?
>>
>>Let me put it this way. Are you from New England or Canada? If not, then
>you
>>likely can't quit imagine a South Dakota winter. Of course, they've been
>>rather mild lately, not snowing much, but they do get damn cold with the
>>windchill. Nebraska is going to be much the same but to a lesser degree.
>>
>>Nick Zachariasen
>>Editor Emeritus
>>Trojan Times
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