A week ago I was in Reykjavik. Just checked and it’s 23 F there right now. It’s more than 30 degrees colder here in MN than in a place called “Iceland”
It sucks in some ways. The driveway can have a foot or more of snow and the cars are covered with ice and snow. So, that part I hate because I cannot just get up and go to work. It also can be very time consuming. The roads now are usually pretty well plowed, so that’s not as bad as it used to be. What makes it easier now is that a lot of times people will cancel work or other obligations if it is bad. Even a decade ago you were expected to go to work, even if it took you two hours to get there and usually you were expected to get up two hours earlier to prepare your car and driveway and drive 20 mph. Most the time the actual temperature isn’t a killer, but a few times a year it’s really bad and you ideally dress for it… thermals underneath. A dress shirt, then sweater and insulated coat with hood and a hat and gloves.
Cold, I can do. Cold and ice? Nope. Cold and wind? Not preferable. Cold and ice and wind? **** all that.
Truth! That’s one of the reasons I’m happy to back here but still have a lot of family there so I visit when it’s not the North Pole. My family moved to Chicago before I started high school (D-Wade was in my freshman math class and he was a junior - go bulldogs lulz). We had to walk about a mile and a half in that tundra. Coming from here it was brutal and the snow was cool at first then it was a **** show by the next day. I guess on the positive side, if it hit 90 outside (only did one time that I recall) we got to go home from school LOL. Could ya imagine that down here? Kids would never go to school. I’m sure it’s different 20+ years later though.
Lol. Mostly flat in Chicago, but did have to cross several railroad tracks on the way. However, I did have to do it on one foot.
Says the guy who apparently can’t read. I guess growing up in the Friendswood area is the wrong side of the tracks.
Im in the DFW area with 11 degrees.. The minute I start to complain I think about you and @rocketsjudoka.... So I will not complain... T_Man
So much for the pool filter. Pool equipment in Texas explodes after getting frozen solid the night before Terry Roden said his freeze stat, which is a temperature-sensing device, didn't kick into his pool equipment the night before the explosion. https://www.wfaa.com/mobile/article...olid/287-ca5a2c01-fc19-4865-942f-b87ca5e625ac
