Re: [Leica] film breaking during cold loading - became windchill

[Henry Ambrose <henryambrose@home.com>]

>Ha!
>I dare both of you to come tripod shooting in Detroit, where the wind chill 
has 
>hit a balmy -39 F (to say nothing of what it would be centigrade) and the 
>temperature is 5 degrees.  Better get something with a leaf shutter and plate 
>film.
>This year is bad, but not the worst - I shot some pictures in Ann Arbor in 
winter 
>1994 (January) when the chill hit -70 F and the
>temperature was -27.  I did break the film, but only the leader and only on 
the 
>rewind.  Kodak color seems pretty resistant.

>Cheers
>Dante

Thanks but no thanks for your kind invitation.
While I was out in the cold (20F is apparently only "cool" to some)  
I was wondering how it came to be that anyone could live year-round in 
a place as cold as, say, Chicago, Detroit, wherever?
How did the northern US become populated?  (much less Canada)
Why didn't everyone leave *if* they survived the first winter?

Henry
from Tennessee where we are having a real winter (for us)
come on spring!