Anyone else love grilling in sub freezing temps?


 
Timothy F. Lewis said:
Thawing it out here today! I’ve got a few in a dry cooler in the garage, I hope they don’t explode before I get home!
You’re in the same loop. Air temp is something like 5 wind chill…-15! I’m not grilling tonight but, not due to the cold, I’m down at the hospital and waiting for my wife to come out of a second surger for her back! Nothing in the house and by the time I leave the butcher will be closed! Too bloody cold to drive around to find something to grill so, who knows what I’ll end up with!?
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Hey Tim, sending positive vibes thoughts for your wife, hope her surgery goes great.
 
And 40 years ago today, our actual temp in Chicagoland (I wasn't living way out there then) Honestly I can't remember if I was living in the city or Bloomingdale :D IN any case our ACTUAL temps was -27 for daytime! Not wind chill. I don't even remember what that was
 
LMichaels said:
And 40 years ago today, our actual temp in Chicagoland (I wasn't living way out there then) Honestly I can't remember if I was living in the city or Bloomingdale :D IN any case our ACTUAL temps was -27 for daytime! Not wind chill. I don't even remember what that was
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I think it was - 70 that one day.
Boss asked me to come in and install 2 windows that got shipped late. Fastest install I ever did...
 
Thanks guys, never saw the surgeon for an after action report (irritating but, whatever) and she was in and out pretty quickly. Her son stopped about ten minutes after she got back to the room and they both told me to get out and go home! I was thinking it would be an ugly snow blowing experience but, not that much to deal with today, I’ll hit in the morning.
At 7 degrees, I wasn’t up to grilling a burger which is really what I think I wanted but, didn’t want to freeze my beer again!
 
Timothy F. Lewis said:
Thanks guys, never saw the surgeon for an after action report (irritating but, whatever) and she was in and out pretty quickly. Her son stopped about ten minutes after she got back to the room and they both told me to get out and go home! I was thinking it would be an ugly snow blowing experience but, not that much to deal with today, I’ll hit in the morning.
At 7 degrees, I wasn’t up to grilling a burger which is really what I think I wanted but, didn’t want to freeze my beer again!
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Prayers for your Bride Tim. I was fortunate to break my back in good weather. Having steel rods in my back for > 10 years, I can only imagine what it's like, brand new in cold weather. She's a Marine (takes one to know one)
 
Had to bring the “garage cooler” inside before the beer in there exploded!
Thanks everyone for all the well wishes for the best wife anyone could have ever prayed for!
I’m too worn out to even think about making the blooming patties for a burger tonight, waiting for someone else’s surgery is…
Well, suffice to say, exhausting.
 
LMichaels said:
And 40 years ago today, our actual temp in Chicagoland (I wasn't living way out there then) Honestly I can't remember if I was living in the city or Bloomingdale :D IN any case our ACTUAL temps was -27 for daytime! Not wind chill. I don't even remember what that was
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Remember it well.
January 20th 1985.
Wind chill algorithms were changed after. But about 70-77 below.

70s had the worst winters. Then 70s and early 90s were very cold.
It has been a long way from there. 2014 was the closest we have had in decades. Long winter, many snow days, and the third highest total.
78-79, 77-78, 2014.
Biggest single snowfalls:
1967, 1979, 1999, 2011, 2015, and a few years ago a few 10" smows late in season (February), but cold powder.

And some of us charcoaled that day. True TVWBBers
 
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Oh yes, there have been many years of much worse winters than this one!
One year, my parents were in Florida (sailing with my older brother) in the most miserable winter “Ever” HA!
Well, the furnace in their house bit the dust, thankfully there was a fireplace and the phone worked. I called the installer. It was so cold that he said he didn’t want to shut his truck off but, we were lucky enough that he had all but one part on the truck! The warranty was due to expire in three days so, it was all squared away under the warranty! It would have been several thousand dollars!
Good grief, it was brutal, I was never happier to have been taking care of the place in my life.
 
Yep, it happens here on the Kishwaukee sometimes. A small river but those ice dams can wreak havoc. Not exactly weather to be playing in the river
 
LMichaels said:
Yep, it happens here on the Kishwaukee sometimes. A small river but those ice dams can wreak havoc. Not exactly weather to be playing in the river
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Yea, RT 25 runs right along the east bank. It wasn't too bad until they dug up the berms and put down blacktop for a bike path.
 
Tony Coloma said:
Remember it well.
January 20th 1985.
Wind chill algorithms were changed after. But about 70-77 below.

70s had the worst winters. Then 70s and early 90s were very cold.
It has been a long way from there. 2014 was the closest we have had in decades. Long winter, many snow days, and the third highest total.
78-79, 77-78, 2014.
Biggest single snowfalls:
1967, 1979, 1999, 2011, 2015, and a few years ago a few 10" smows late in season (February), but cold powder.

And some of us charcoaled that day. True TVWBBers
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Warmer winters lately. I maintain snowblowers. Too well. Makes no sense to start them. Then have to redo the whole process. If I ever take up skiing, I just have to sell the snowblowers.
Lately winter has only settled in by February. This year is a little different. But really not much.
Yep
-27 Jan 29th 1985. Wind chill tables changed after that.
 
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