# The Day After Tomorrow (spoilers?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 27, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-spoilers/247415 "2004-05-27T20:56:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-spoilers/247415/121 "2004-06-14T13:24:00Z")
I thought the surge was really well done. (I don’t have **Cartooniverse** ’s knowledge of the layout of NYC, so I’ll defer on whether it came from the right direction.) I did wonder whether the water level should have dropped at some time after the surge. If they had had it dropping after the surface froze, there could have been lots o’ wacky adventures on unsupported ice sheets… About half an hour after we left the theatre, my friend Mike said, “What temperature does helicopter fuel freeze at? If it was -160 in the eye of the storm, shouldn’t the carbon dioxide in the air freeze?” ISTR that at altitude in Antarctica, it’s close to the freezing point of CO[sub]2[/sub]. (WebElements gives a boiling point of -78C for [CO[sub]2[/sub]](http://www.webelements.com/webelements/compounds/text/C/C1O2-124389.html). Maybe the fuel was just coagulating? My theory was, the hypercold in the eye of the storm didn’t last more than a few minutes at ground level, only enough to frost over the buildings. Hey! Maybe that Creeping Frost o’ Death _was_ CO[sub]2[/sub] frost… > [@EhhMon](#): > > Just curious but I live out in the Monterey/Salinas area. I went to Salinas to watch this film. It was a very hot day. > > But after the movie I was freezing, I was so cold that regardless of how hot it was outside I drove with my windows up. I talked to other friends about it, and they too experience the same thing… Funny, we didn’t notice that. But then, I live in Canada. Bundling up to go outside in blizzard-like conditions is sort of normal. I will, however, keep an eye out next winter for the Creeping Frost o’ Death. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-spoilers/247415.md?page=6)