Ah, but how many 'minutes until frostbite', Doug?

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/30/weather_forecasters_display_those_terrifyingly_low_numbers_but_is_wind_chill_even_real_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Cheers,
still searing Bill


> On 8 Jan 2015, at 5:59 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From my frosty minus 18C (windchill min us 25), I fail on the empathy scale, Bill, but the passivity of constructions too) makes sense….
>
> Doug
>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 8:14 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Numbers of any sort get me confused
>>
>> and when Celsius and Fahrenheit are involved
>>
>> I get even more confused.
>>
>> Seattle Fog 45
>>
>> It has been so mild here that blossom is pink in some front gardens.
>>
>> Yesterday dog and I collided with walking seniors who were excited,
>>
>> pointing - See, the first daffodil. (just one)
>>
>> [Crocuses, may I ask?
>>
>> when do they blossom in England?
>>
>> The Streissguth Gardens, Capitol Hill, promise
>>
>> Winter Highlights:
>>
>> winter sweet
>>
>> witchhazel
>>
>> Tomasinianus crocus
>>
>> ‘hundreds of thousands of early crocus’
>>
>> [One acre on a steep hillside.
>> Access on foot via Blaine Steps:
>> 293 steps skirt the garden and continue down to Eastlake.
>>
>> Watch for one of the famous Sears catalog ‘kit houses’
>> popular in Seattle in the early 1900s.]
>>
>> M
>>
>>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 10:07 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Bill Around 27 at night here as well F
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>>> Sent: 07 January 2015 10:10
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: There is a price
>>>
>>> We dream of ice and fridges, Pat. Overnight low tonight = 27.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>>>> On 7 Jan 2015, at 7:29 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ha Bill this seems so far away here it is like living in a fridge
>>>> -cheers P old and icy
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>> On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>>>> Sent: 06 January 2015 20:12
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: There is a price
>>>>
>>>> There is a price
>>>>
>>>> You can avoid sun-sourced heat.
>>>> Shut it out, the civilised way.
>>>> Sit in air-conditioned rooms,
>>>> in cooled car capsules,
>>>> in shopping centres.
>>>>
>>>> And you appear to have won out.
>>>> You do not sweat. You move
>>>> with apparent impunity.
>>>> Plants wilt outside but what
>>>> do you care behind your window?
>>>>
>>>> Ha! How is your head
>>>> the next day? Even though
>>>> not a drop of alcohol has
>>>> brushed your lips. Your limbs,
>>>> your core, your chi, all sapped.
>>>>
>>>> You feel as if you have been run
>>>> over by a truck. And you have.
>>>> The temperature truck.
>>>> Put those active
>>>> plans on ice.
>>>>
>>>> bw
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> that we are only
> as we find out we are
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