Actually, I was just kidding about the kids…kind of. I’m just bitter because Worcester never cancelled school because of the cold when I was growing up. However, it does amaze me to see all these kids standing on the corner wearing just an unzipped coat. What’s wrong with them?
I’m sorry if I’m being thick but how are we supposed to warm up our cars if it’s illegal to leave them when they’re running?
Are we supposed to sit there and get hypothermia during the 30 minutes it takes to warm a car?
We seem to be having another pretty warm winter, overall. I think we’re even warmer than you northeasterners at the moment.
Oddly enough, while my eartips, fingertips, and nose are grateful, the rest of me isn’t. These warm winters we’ve been having (why, it doesn’t even go down to -40 for a whole fortnight, never mind a month!) are doing nasty things to the environment here. It isn’t cold enough for long enough to kill the spruce beetles, so we’re getting acres and acres of dead trees. Then, since we are a semi-arid environment, it burns down around our ears come summer.
While we are seeing more deer and cougars, the moose and caribou are having problems, although not as big a problem as the polar bears are having. Can’t eat seals if there’s no sea ice to hunt on.
Overall, I don’t think I approve…although it’s fun to laugh at you when you’re colder than we are.
I know what you mean. When I went out onto the patio to toss the ball around with the dog, I almost had to wear more than just my underwear. I toughed it out though.
You forgot to mention tires freezing solid off-round so your car vibrates like mad the first couple miles in the morning. Though actually we did have one morning like that a couple weeks ago. Just one, though. Hardly worth mentioning.
In January 1994 I went to northern Wisconsin, not far south of Lake Superior, for a conference at a ski resort. A cold front moved in. The temperature hit 44 below zero; with wind chill it was over 100 below zero. I got up and went out every 3 hours during the night to start the car so we could leave eventually. Now that was cold. I had seven layers of clothing and it felt like all I had on was a windbreaker.
I’d done minus 20’s (Fahrenheit) before, and tolerated that, and thought I was tough. But once it went south of 40 below, I learned new meaning to the term really freaking bone chilling nasal hair/lung cilia freezing I’m going to die really really soon cold.
Actually, in light of my carping about the weather in Florida is in this thread, it is my moral duty to point out what has happened to me in the thread about match.com. I posted my profile and…
“Were you a local, I’d definitely drop you a wink.”
“If I lived in Florida, I would definitely answer that ad.”
“I think you sound like a fun guy … Of course, being as I’m nowhere near Florida …”
“too bad you’re so far away”
“I’d respond to your profile in a hot second if you weren’t on the wrong end of I-75.”
Instant Karma has bitten me in the ass, and it hurts.
But Dad, you’ve forgotten part of the story! Namely, that on the way back home, the heater in the car broke. The smaller Mercotette and I have never gotten along better than when we had to huddle together to keep from freezing.
Hardly relevant, dear! The temperature was barely 22 below when we started for home, and had warmed up to zero by mid-day! Merely bracing, for those of our northern blood-lines. Are you not the proud daughter of northerners such as Fridlief Fridfrodson? And Harald Bluetush?
Just to let eveyone know my heat is back on. They had to replace the circulator. Basically that is the water pump that sends the hot water through the system. It took a day to do it but they did it.
I thought that giving your wife a jump in the morning would warm both of you up.
Unless you were talking about starting her car.
There has been times here in MN, when the temp didn’t get above 0, for over a week.
Boy, was that hell.
As a native Californian now residing in Minnesota, it did take a little while getting used to the fact that when it’s really cold, your boogers freeze up when going outside.
Replace Minnesota with “Illinois” and I could have written that. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE when that happens. I think if it’s cold enough for your nostrils to freeze, you shouldn’t have to go to work. Dammit. Fortunately, it’s only happened once this year so far.
Though actually we did have one morning like that a couple weeks ago. Just one, though. Hardly worth mentioning.