What brought me to Winnepeg was that I was working a temporary assignment at Grand Forks back when I was doing the environmental work. We sometimes went up to Winnepeg on the weekends. We had similar mosquito problems. If you stepped into the fields you would be almost instantly eaten alive. We went to one of the local supply stores and asked the guy about how to deal with the mosquitoes. He gave us some non-descript squirt bottle that simply said "mosquito repellent". It honestly looked like someone probably bottled it in their back shed. When he gave it to us, he gave us a verbal warning to, under no conditions get it in our eyes or drink it. We thought, no worries (we'd already found a great little bar called Jonsesy's Jar so the drinking part was taken care of [;)]). We put the repellent on and stepped out into the field and it was awesome! Like having your own personal force field. You could see the clouds of mosquitoes but they stayed at least a foot away.ORIGINAL: thegreatwent
The only problem with Winnipeg is the mosquitoes. Thats why I like to be up there just after the first freeze kills them off. Personally I prefer cold to hot but that comes from being stationed at Ft. Drum and then being deployed to hottest places they could find for us[:@].
When we finished that day we walked back to the truck and found that the bottle of repellent had spilled over onto a spare set of safety glasses and had completely melted them.
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