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I'm not sure what you mean by, "You didn't mention where you live any more than 10 seconds and the entire camera mechanism and lens is frozen." Are you saying that your camera doesn't work below zero?
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It was a joke Joe. I'll never forget that cold wind sweeping straight off the Snowies and blowing through Young. Attending TAFE from 98 through 2000 while studying fabrication engineering (hydraulics and pneumatics and machining at nights) I'd spend my breaks out in the shared TAFE/High school quad grass area where I could find a quiet spot to sit and enjoy a coffee and a smoke . It would be bloody freezing.
It was funny, when I told friends I was moving to Lithgow they all said it was so cold, why would I move here. It's nowhere near as cold as Young.
I did some work helping a TAFE teacher (running his own welding business) out at Quandialla. I got to do the maths to design the cones for grain silos being removed from the earth rings. The skies there were remarkable. I regret turning down the offer a free house to live in on the head of the local grain corps property. It was a very hot dry place in summer and a single spark from an angle grinder through a 3mm hole in a silo wall resulted in a largish fire which took some getting under control using whatever we could grab before it spread to grain storage silos.