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I've spent a good deal of time in Yuma when it was over 120 degrees. And while it was very warm, rather than hot, and I was wearing gloves, I have touched a critical nuclear reactor... As in, I was in the reactor compartment, the reactor was at minimal, and I was fixing an essential alarm circuit - while underway. Lost a chevron for that... Senior Chief was not at all impressed with my opportunism. Also received two years of exposure, according to my dosimeter. Worth it for the story that goes along with it. Losing a grade sucked tho.

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dude from another prior nuke - lol wtf!

heard about a guy teabagging the reactor once too

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So you're telling me that if they went full containment and set up the tent and donned the suits and sent your ass in to repair a fault affecting 1MC and General and you were the only person inside the chamber - and the reactor was critical - that you wouldn't touch it? I don't understand. I mean obviously, I dropped back to 3rd class for that shit.

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Hottest thing I ever touched. The inside frame of my English stove with the side of my fore-arm. I do not recommend.

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Hottest: 128°F near Needles, CA. We were camping on the Colorado River and it was still 114°F at 2:00am.

Coldest: -42°F in Cheyenne

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walking to work in sneakers, jeans, dungaree jacket in february at -35 with a 20mph wind. It was brisk to say the least as in my dick felt like it was going to fall off if it got any colder and that metal fly felt like wire that was cold enough to almost stick to skin. Now on around summer of 1990 it was over a 100F for 3 weeks never below 90 even at night. Well I had no tv not radio no clue. Living on a 3rd floor attic room in a rooming house "I drank a lot more than I wish I did".

I found out on the first day of 100F, I worked 2nd shift till 11pm then walked home where my cooler and 12 pack in it were waiting. Drunk in short time then to bed. Got wokened by loud machinery noise. Looked out to the main road to see and asphalt grinder removing the road 50 ft away, like a jet aircraft with louder bangs at that distance. I did not sleep maybe 125F or higher in room no fan and 2 small windows facing the road and heat and machinery, she's to cheap to pay for our luxeries, but I did drink my ass off all day before work, my supervisor drank vodka at work, good friend so I was cool to run the machines feeling good.

Just to get it summerized maybe 130F during the hell. Then the weekend hit. So I was hot for 3 days getting 2 hrs sleep in that 75hr stretch and drinking and toking a lot more than normal since daytime was sleeptime but no sleep must be time to drink drink drink. It was an interesting time back then that is for sure.

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christ that sounds like a sure hell

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That is to poor to buy boots or a jacket but to rich to get government assistance. I didn't steal or scam even when dead broke without food though, just toughed it out.

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Im not sure i understood any of this but it warmed my heart a little and i shed a tear in remembrance of Engrish.

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I sometimes work with objects frozen in liquid nitrogen. I've accidentally touched a sliver of bare skin to the inside of a cryogenic storage tank. Almost -200 degrees C. Burned like a motherfucker.

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-20 celsius in UK and 46 celsius here in oz

low forties common here. hottest night was 34 i think.

mang weve had a couple of -3 nights last week in outer melb ive had to ride in

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123 in death valley about 20 years ago and -30 on mt Washington about 10 yrs ago.

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Burned the fuck out of myself on an oven at 500 F. I've also accidentally dripped a bunch of liquid nitrogen on my skin and hands. Hottest weather was something in the 110s in Florida and coldest was - 10 in Chicago.

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man, tried being an apprentice sparky twice. second was for a food service equipment mob, id go around mcdonalds and reds rooter stores servicing motherfuckers like - these things do dry and steam heat and cooling cycles and all sorts, you pretty much slap what you want to cook in there, press a couiple of buttons and it will beep at you when you have to add something else. some of the fuckers are big enough you could stand up in them. the top of the line ones youd have to put chemicals in it, press a couple of buttons, and it would do its thing, turns it all to steam, sucks it out, pumps it back in again, id fiddle with buttons and make it do all the shit its meant to, then it does another cleaning cycle.

the procedure to make sure all the chemical is flushed out? open the door, standing to the side, let the steam come out, have a whiff of the air

what i did once - open the door poke my nose towards it while theres only an inch gap and huff steam burning the fuck out of my nose

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Jesus. Well I bet you learned something that day.

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Hottest weather? India in the summer. Temperatures so hot the wind makes you feel hotter. Outside feels like a furnace. No one or animal is outside from the ranges of 10am to 2pm. And if they are they are sleeping or will pass out at their destination.

Hottest thing touched? Once had my leg pinned against a hot motorcycle pipe. It was literally only for a few seconds because I was strong enough to get the motorcycle off but the scar is still there.

Coldest weather? Probably -20 F. Touched? Ice.

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Damn your time in India could make for a good post all its own!

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Not me but I watched a guy burn to death in a car crash when in I was highschool. That was pretty fucked. All of my cars have had fire extinguishers mounted within reach of the driver seat since then.

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-55f in Northern Turkey and +115f in Arizona.

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