It’s in the teens here, but we just cleaned off the second foot of snow from our driveway in two days.
I’ll take the snow any day. Brr!
:smack:
The best comment I ever heard (I think it was on these boards) regarding people running to the store to buy milk, eggs, bread and toilet paper in any “emergency” was “what are they planning to do, make French toast and get diarrhea?” I admit it, I LOL’d.
(-28 with windchill here, -6 F regular. Thought I’d walk half a mile to the store…SO COLD)
As a Northerner myself (Iowan), my admiration for Canadians’ hardiness in the face of curl-up-and-die winter temperatures and winds never ceases.
The Ferguson Brothers, Canada’s noted satirists, speak of a temperature called “too cold to go to the mall.” They then note that it is “entirely theoretical.” 
Well, I walked a mile to the store today in -31C just for the exercise (and butter), and I am throwing my beret into my halloween costume bag. I feel quite affronted by a hat that did not keep my head warm like a toque would have. I know how to dress to exercise in cold weather; I won’t make the mistake of putting on a beret instead of a toque again (I was just fine other than that).
I have a cheap crappy apartment and while it’s nowhere near the negative degrees some of you Canadians have posted it’s not exactly warm here in Wisconsin right now. It is positive 4F according to NOAA but it’s only 53F in my apartment (desktop thermometer) with the heat on all the way.
Also, I don’t have a bed and sleep on the floor. Damn it. At least I have the SDMB to keep me warm. 
It only becomes a reality if your car won’t start.
Right. Actually, I was participating in QED’s little joke. Sorry.
Both.
ETA - Yes, I see a few people beat me to that.
It was 16F (-9c)this morning when I went to work. My co-workers were lamenting and gnashing their teeth. I just told them they should wear more than a hoodie and runners in the winter. Note: I don’t wear anything much warmer than that, but after so long in the arctic and prairies, I’ve got antifreeze for blood.
Today it is a balmy -20C (-4F) or -33C (-27) with the windchill. The jobsite I’m on is three blocks of exterior renovations on the downtown LRT line which I get to walk up and down a few times a day to ensure everyone is behaving themselves. It’s cold as a mofo out there!
Did you see last week’s “How I Met Your Mother”? Robin from Canada is sitting out on a stoop having an ice-cream cone in short sleeves while everyone around her is bundled up like Nanook of the North.
(We’re not that bad, are we?)
That’s what the people around me think we’re like. “You must love the cold! You must feel like home!”
Dude, nobody loves the cold. And no, this isn’t at all like home - there’s no Chinook and people are acting like idiots because of a threat of snow.