Dumber than a Post

[SkunkedAgain]

It's official my addiction has made me dumber than a post. Only 2" almost of ice today and I'm on it fishing. It's cracking and settling around me and the fish aren't even biting yet. Well it's only 3' deep if I go through but I'm hoping not to. More later. J
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[RockyRaab]

J - don't be an icehole. [angelic]
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[TubeDude]

[#4040FF]Sounds like a good inscription on a headstone.

Reminds me of the joke about what are the most famous last words among redneck goobers? "Here, Bubba, hold my beer and watch this %#@?."

Y'all be keerful now, ya heah?
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[SkunkedAgain]

I'll try not to and hope I won't become a popcicle either. That was scary stuff this morning. I had to go do something else so I quit before I caught anything. Ice was too thin to get to my good spot and no fish wanted to play where I could get too. So mark me down for a Skunken. Later J
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[SkunkedAgain]

Yep that's probably one I'll have earned someday, but not this morning. At least the headstone. Can't quite figure why after a week of sub-freezing temperatures and 4-5 nights below zero up here. That we didn't get more ice. Should be growing faster than it is. Maybe the sunlight radiation is getting through even if the temps are staying cold. Well I'm afraid this second season will end before it gets safe. Hope not but odds aren't good on much more ice time. Later J
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[RockyRaab]

Water is an incredible heat sink. It takes a long time and a large temperature difference to get ice to form - or melt.

The heat sink aspect is also why that old saw about the water being warmer than the air is so wrong. Water sucks the heat out of you many times faster than air does. (You can spend a lot of time in 40° air and not freeze. Spend 30 minutes in 40° water and you're dead.)
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[Tin-Can]

And I bet you learned that from being a Navy pilot and having to do emergency egress training under water. Ever do any of that training in the big indoor pool at Bunker Hill NAS ?
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[RockyRaab]

I was Air Force, but I did go to several survival schools, including water survival. And I paid attention in high school sciences, too.
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[Tin-Can]

Oh,my apologies [:/]. Always thought you were Navy. []
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[SkunkedAgain]

Yep that heat transfer rate between water and flesh tends to make ya a looser if ya go in the drink this time of year. Hopen to not see it first hand, but if I keep pushing it I might find out. Well back to work today so I should be ok today. Later J
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[PACMEN]

I don't remember anyone paying attention in high school math. Might be because things back then seem to be getting fuzzier and fuzzier every day though.
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