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No it really isn't that bad Bill.

I saw -29 overnight, about -25 this morning and I suppose it probably flirted around the -30 mark at it's coldest this morning. We do have a bit of wind out of the north west though so that makes it less fun.

Looks like we might warm up before the weekend, wow that would be nice for ice fishing.

supposed to warm a bit later in the week for us as well. -8 right now. brrrrrr. even our cars have become sissies and complain about these temps when started

-27 was the worst here. I really enjoyed my commute today....from the dining room to my office is about 18 steps!

I was really looking forward to one of NDs pictures of his car thermometer reading -40! I forgot to do the boiling water thing last night. Good thing we have another night of this....

Truck said -29* on my way to work. It warmed up to -25* by the time I got here. Some dude's got a noisy azz diesel running right outside my office window. He works in the shop so I assume it will run all day long. Oh well, I would run it too if I had a diesel.

It's funny listening to all the sissy's around here. You in MN for godsake.

It's a vortex.

A "Polar Vortex"

Wow, that does sound serious... Here I thought it was just winter time.

lol.

I got an email on "how to stay safe in historic cold!"

Ummm, how about stay inside or put on an extra t-shirt. I decided to pass on the steel toes this morning though.

Exactly! lol

It's not like this is the first time it's ever been cold in MN

I'm wearing my steel toes.




Granted, my office is 70* but I'm still wearing them!

"Polar Vortex" must be the politically correct term for "[bleep] Cold".

Still minus 25* at 10:35 AM. Went out and started both cars. Took the Edge out for a coffee run. Sure is dead out. Even the Kwik Trip was empty.

I just took some loads of stuff over to a storage unit. It really isn't that bad out right now.

As a bonus, my wife is no longer laughing at my "poor fashion sense" she says I had when I got some Riggs Workwear Thinsulite lined jeans.....

My polar vortex meter says it's still -18.

-21* here.

I got sucked into the vortex and now it's 1962.

I like it here, I think I'll stay.

And I bet some kids going to school are still wearing shorts!

My grandpa used to plow the roads in Red Lake County in northern MN in the 40's with a grader that had a big V plow with a wing. His son, my uncle, would follow behind with the dump fulla gravel with another wing mounted to it. They could do a pretty good job in one pass of the road.

Well one morning at 4:00am it was -50 below actual and that old diesel grader's fuel was gelled up again and the roads were drifted shut. So gramps threw some wood under the old beast with a splash of diesel and lit a fire to warm it up. About 5 minutes later he's yelling to my grandma, mom, and sisters, "Girls! Get up! The grader's on fire!" So my mom and my aunts who ranged from 12 to 2 tried filling buckets with water from the old hand pump in the kitchen and running them outside, sloshing all the way. The water froze hard on the kitchen floor, steps, and outside to the point they couldn't even stand up anymore. Gramps got the fire knocked down enough with water and shoveled snow to get the rig running up and driven off the fire - not too much worse for wear. The kids and grandma? Not so much. My old Norwegian grandma gave him hell about that for 50 years.

We still laugh about it. I bet gram and gramps would get a real good chuckle out of this "Polar Vortex".

I Needed a good smile tonight CF, I have 3 little people, all 3 are under 3, and 3 ears have ear infections, but it is only effecting 2/3rds of the kids.......

this is one of those how much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood kind of puzzles.

Glad all you like the chilly weather, prtty nice today in India again. flirting with 70 i think. would much rather be ice fishing though.

We're warming up. -17 this morning.