12/22/2001

2˚F, feels like -14˚F

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Ready for Kwanzaa


an abandoned building

a run-down apartment building

I thought I was just going to take a quick skating in the streets on my roller blades and shoot some Sunday afternoon pictures, without realizing how cold it really was outside. The blue sky and brilliant sunshine was misleading, and amazingly there was also a beautiful half moon hanging up above. The snow from yesterday apparently did not remain much.

I first felt the cold temperature as soon as I got out of the house in the backyard. It felt much colder than 10˚F (-12˚C) which I thought was the temperature then, but I had on long john and a dawn jacket so I thought it was ok.

Problems soon began with taking pictures –I had to take off my leather gloves to operate the camera and compose shots, and it was so freezing on my fingers that I barely could take three shots at a time before I had to put back on the gloves. Then it was the helmet. I was not able to put on my furred hood because I was wearing a helmet that was designed to let out heat for better ventilation. Therefore my head especially my ears were pretty much exposed to the cold air and after a while it started to hurt.

It was after about 25 minutes when I began to realize that I had to get inside soon not to get my head frozen off, but I was already quite far away from home and was now in a torn-apart neighborhood in downtown Detroit: my purpose of this skating trip was to take some pictures of run-down or abandoned buildings in this area. So I decided to turn round and head home.

The problem then became going against the bitterly freezing wind. The vicious wind gusts were penetrating my jacket and biting all over my head, yet I still dared not to take off my helmet to put on my dawn jacket hood because that would greatly limit my view angles, which would be a dangerous thing to do in a bad inner city area.

The wind chill was killing me, so I decided to take a shortcut –another mistake: the shortcut has shorter distance but is mostly unpaved dirt trails and was saturated with hard ice that could not be seen from the surface. The trails were bumpy and very slippery to roll on, and for twice I almost fell to the ground. I started to feel dizzy and exhausted. The usually 15-minute walk took me almost another 20 minutes on my roller blades, and I was so glad when I finally walked up my porch and got inside.

I had to sit down for a couple of minutes to get used to the warm inside, and then I got myself a glass of red wine and a Hershey chocolate bar. It took me about 10 minutes to fully recover, and then I logged on to an Internet weather site and saw this:

2˚F, feels like -14˚F!

(2˚F = -17˚C, -14˚F = -26˚F)

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