*A:M User* Roger Posted January 22, 2013 *A:M User* Share Posted January 22, 2013 Your wiper fluid resevoir freezes solid, and the dog looks at you like "no way, brah" when you try and take him out. God I love the midwest <_> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted January 22, 2013 Hash Fellow Share Posted January 22, 2013 I grew up in Minnesota. It's like living on Neptune. I hated it. 62° F here in Dallas today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildsided Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Pretty nipply here in Ontario as well and I know exactly what you mean about the dog "If you wanna go out so bad you go" look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Edmondson Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I did a year in Illinois, 79-80, and remember that when the temp got to 0 celsius, after three months of sub zero. I was walking around with my coat open thinking it was warm. They told us at the time that it was the mildest winter they had had for five years. Its cold here now, but not that cold ! I did a year in Illinois, 79-80, and remember that when the temp got to 0 celsius, after three months of sub zero. I was walking around with my coat open thinking it was warm. They told us at the time that it was the mildest winter they had had for five years. Its cold here now, but not that cold ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I'm sorry, could you repeat that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*A:M User* Roger Posted January 23, 2013 Author *A:M User* Share Posted January 23, 2013 Yeah...so I drove up to work today, roll the window down to get my parking receipt, and the damn window stays stuck in the down position and no amount of cajoling will get it rolled up. So I had to drive back home with the driver's side window down. Good times. Felt a little bit like Steve Martin and John Candy in Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Edmondson Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I'm sorry, could you repeat that? Apologies. I don't know how that happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted January 23, 2013 Admin Share Posted January 23, 2013 I take comfort in the fact that global warming is on the way. Illinois is cold right now but luckily I work about five minutes away from home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*A:M User* Roger Posted January 23, 2013 Author *A:M User* Share Posted January 23, 2013 I take comfort in the fact that global warming is on the way. Illinois is cold right now but luckily I work about five minutes away from home. Yeah, but then we get to live in a desert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted January 23, 2013 Hash Fellow Share Posted January 23, 2013 I'm always reminded of a story we read in Jr. High called "A Pail of Air" where the Earth has been ripped from the Sun and everything has frozen over but there's one family left alive that survives by going out to scoop up oxygen slush to replenish their air supply in their pressure-sealed apartment. Yes, that was life in Minnesota in the 60's. Now it's so warm they hardly get snow cover in the winter and the lake in our town that used to be great for sailing is so dried out you can wade across it in the summer. All perfectly, perfectly normal, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 It's so cold out... I saw a teenage boy with his pants pulled-UP! SO COLD... I saw a Democrat with his hands in his OWN pockets! Seriously, though--- my house hates the Xtreme cold... last night I had a fire going in the woodburner... which gave the boiler(baseboard heat) the night off... which meant this morning I woke up to frozen heat pipes! If the ice in the pipes expands it causes burst pipes... and Dawn and I are off on a weeklong trip tomorrow. Might come home to a flooded house... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 We had some below 0 days this week in Wisconsin my Mazda stick shift was fun to shift until it warmed up oh its fun bringing in the morning paper when its 6 below but I has my slippers on so my toes weren't cold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbenefi33 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I've been up to Minnesota a few time in the winter I was like wow. It's about 40's here in South Ga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*A:M User* Roger Posted January 24, 2013 Author *A:M User* Share Posted January 24, 2013 Robcat, you are a hardy soul. You couldn't pay me to live in Minnesota in the winter. We had a couple days last year where it was 40 below and that is just too damn cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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