Wow the Artic Freeze is here!!

[Vincent Brick]

I don't know if I get enough iodine in my diet, I wasn't actually aware that is a thing. My income is sufficiently low that eating right and accessing healthcare can be a challenge.

If any of the areas a little north of me get snow this year I'm gonna go check it out just for nostalgia, I haven't seen snow up close in years. No evidence my E30 has ever been exposed to the stuff.

[mrsleeve]

Wow Vince.... thats crazy, my wife has been dealing with a lot of weird things related to hormone and endocrine issues. She has had the best luck in seeing a Naturopath, and a Functional medicine doc.... On the off chance do you get enough Iodine in your diet....


That said, we are in the grips of a winter storm with temps in the low singles and with the wind feels like 10 to 25 below and it has not stoped snowing since it started almost 2 days ago, they NWS says 16+ when its all done... I have spent 6 hours moving snow in the last 2 days and its still coming down at 2 inches an hour as I type this with 30mph winds drifting my drive way shut again..... Oh well Montana winter time problems, I love this time of year.......

[Vincent Brick]

HOw old were you when you left?

...Not only is the weather shitty, but so is the food, music, lack of cultural diversity etc. Even when I merely think of going back, a little bit of me dies (literally) inside.

So much this. No one understands, not the people in the midwest, not the people here who have never been to the midwest. I really dislike midwest culture, if you can even call it that, as a whole. The gloom, the crime, the heroin, religious nuts, shitty music/nightlife, no good Mexican food, there's a reason it is so cheap to live there. Not to mention going back would mean reduced access to healthcare, no legal cannabis (I'm a legit medicinal user) and college costs that put education firmly out of my reach (state tuition 3x California's).

Moved to Arizona when I was 18, back to Ohio at 20, California at 33, now about to turn 40. It didn't help that part of my teenage years were spent close to NYC where there actually was culture, I didn't do well when I had that ripped out from under me at 15, GM closing another plant and forcing my family into a second long-distance move.

I wish I was drinking tonight, I really want to but I have been overdoing it lately blacking out and shit so trying to dial back.

[Stanley Rockafella]

HOw old were you when you left?

I left the prairies in my mid 20's and haven't returned since. Don't worry, I also suffer from the same condition. It comes from a lack of tolerating shitty weather and a shitty lifestyle. I miss my family and friends but there's no way in hell I can tolerate going back to the prairies. Not only is the weather shitty, but so is the food, music, lack of cultural diversity etc. Even when I merely think of going back, a little bit of me dies (literally) inside. Not sure which part, maybe it's the kidney's or the liver since I've been drinking too much.....I'm really tired. Gotta stop drinking and go to bed

...k, bye

[Vincent Brick]

when i came back to michigan, the temps were in the low to upper 70's but i wore a spring jacket wherever i went until winter came and i became acclimatized to the cold again.

That was kinda like what I did, except Arizona, and I never went back to normal. Moved from NE Ohio to Phoenix when I was 18 because the winters started to really wear on me, lived there for 2 years, but had a hard time making money so came back and it was awful. Spent the next 10 years in Cincinnati too broke to leave until finally I was so desperate to get out I broke down and moved to California on a whim for a job that turned out to not actually exist. 7 years later I am still here, California has been anything but friendly to me but I have nowhere else to go. There is no way I could go back to the midwest at this point, it sucks, wish I could go wrench on cars with my Dad and get back into racing and playing music and all the things I'm too poor to do out here. I gave up almost everything just to not be so cold.

I LOVE the heat though, until 120 or so, then I start to get a little woozy if I am out in it for too long. I'll wear a hoodie into the 80s if I'm not moving around or in direct sunlight.

Have you had your thyroid levels looked into......

Yeah, found nothing wrong. I apparently have a low pulse though as a result, from what I can tell being underweight, poor circulation, and iron and vitamin D deficiencies are all exacerbating the problem, but I was cold all the time when I was overweight years ago too. Doctors have never acted like they take it very seriously.

[88BlackS-ETA]

Here in York, PA it was 8* F yesterday morning around 7am, reel feel was -5. I stayed inside sitting near the coal stove. Today's high was low 20's . Im happy I am used to living here, I can work in the summer up into the 90's or in winter down in to the mid teens but I can not stand being out to many hours without warming back up. I know my Audi didnt want to start today even though my E30 had no problem when I put it in the trailer for winter last night.

[Powling]

Here in Houston it was a high of 55 °F today. Next week it will get as low as 28 °F. It can't compare to the NE but it's still a damp cold which is different. We pay in the summer though, 98 °F an nearly 100% humidity.

To be honest I prefer the deep cold to a 'damp' cold any day. At least with a deep cold you can layer for it, the damp cold seems to chill you to the bone no matter how well you're layered.

[Frobill]

Here in Houston it was a high of 55 °F today. Next week it will get as low as 28 °F. It can't compare to the NE but it's still a damp cold which is different. We pay in the summer though, 98 °F an nearly 100% humidity.

[mrsleeve]

I would love to be able to tolerate cold temps like that. I grew up in Michigan but left my entire life behind years ago because the weather got too intolerable. Doctors haven't been able to find anything wrong with me, but having to struggle to hold food down in temps below 60F due to violent shivering doesn't seem right. My life would be a lot better if I could move back and be around family and friends.

Jesus dude, thats horrible, I get kinda like that when its hot out, I dont do heat good, and when I am out in it and its over 90ish I lose all appetite and just dont eat much.... Have you had your thyroid levels looked into......

[ThatOneEuroE30]

I would love to be able to tolerate cold temps like that. I grew up in Michigan but left my entire life behind years ago because the weather got too intolerable. Doctors haven't been able to find anything wrong with me, but having to struggle to hold food down in temps below 60F due to violent shivering doesn't seem right. My life would be a lot better if I could move back and be around family and friends.

I detasselled corn for a few years and got used to the 120 degree corn fields. Now i do about the same thing in cold weather its horrible. I used to wear shorts year round. 0 degrees and im walking home from school in shorts.

[flyboyx]

I would love to be able to tolerate cold temps like that. I grew up in Michigan but left my entire life behind years ago because the weather got too intolerable. Doctors haven't been able to find anything wrong with me, but having to struggle to hold food down in temps below 60F due to violent shivering doesn't seem right. My life would be a lot better if I could move back and be around family and friends.

good lord! that sounds terrible.

i really have nothing to relate to this but about 20 years ago, i spent a year living in american samoa. when i came back to michigan, the temps were in the low to upper 70's but i wore a spring jacket wherever i went until winter came and i became acclimatized to the cold again. everyone always looked at me like what the hell are you doing?

[Joe G]

I hate the cold, but what you're dealing with sounds pretty intense/crazy.

Never heard of anything of the sort, but then again I'm no doctor.

[Vincent Brick]

I would love to be able to tolerate cold temps like that. I grew up in Michigan but left my entire life behind years ago because the weather got too intolerable. Doctors haven't been able to find anything wrong with me, but having to struggle to hold food down in temps below 60F due to violent shivering doesn't seem right. My life would be a lot better if I could move back and be around family and friends.

[Powling]

growing up I can remember about equal numbers of opening day of firearms deer seasons (Nov 15th) with snow on the ground Vs sitting out in a T shirt.... that raito has not seemed to change much for that area recently and that on the same latitude as Toronto (S MI is where I grew up)

Odd - I remember growing up that we could get onto the ski hills every year by the first week of december. Now they are lucky to open up before christmas.

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Its supposed to be -24 here on Sunday