RM> Ha..  It's not even cold here until it gets down below -20c..
RM> Round about where F and C meet (-40c) is where we start to wonder
RM> if maybe we shouldn't play inside today...   B)

JB>LOL! Struck you funny too, eh? -10^C is yard-work weather!

JB>I was dropped off for kindergarten one day with my two girlfriends.

Gee.. I thought I was the only one chasing girls in kindergarten..  B)

JB>It must have been below -20, and a foot of new snow, where they had
  >closed the school for the day. (For our US readers, and those on
  >the West coast, we don't close for almost NOTHIN'! |-) Our ride had
  >already driven off! By the time we made it to the drug store, we all
  >had icicles down our noses, and frost on our eyebrows and lashes...
  >They teach us quick here! 

When I was 10 or so we lived out in the country some. Not on a
farm but all our neighbours were farmers. Me and a friend were
doing foolish things one day in early winter. It was sunny and
not TOO bad outside but well below freezing..  Anyways we tried
crossing a frozen creek where the ice wasn't strong enough yet
to support us by climbing across a tree branch that overhung
the creek. My friend slipped and grabbed at me and took both of
us down and through the ice and into the creek... I had to walk
about 2 miles home and by the time I got there I was walking
like Frankenstein's monster because my clothes were all frozen
stiff...

BTW.. I DO remember one year they closed our school for *3* days.
Snowed like all getout. After just the first couple of hours there
were drifts 6 to 10 ft deep all over the place. There was one drift
that came up and went right over the roof of our house and carried
on across the road. We watched one of those big oversized dump-truck
snow plows with the double crescent blade hammer away at that drift
for hours the second day. He finally gave up and left and the next
day they sent a road grader with a plow blade on it. They had lots
of fun plowing the roads because every few miles they'd slam into
a big drift that would turn out to be an abondoned car..
It was a great holiday for those of us with a snowmobile though.
This must have been the winter of 1970/71..

JB>When it is cold enough for the automobile heater *not* to keep up
  > with the outside air temperature... Now THAT'S cold!

Oh, you mean from January to mid March ??    B)

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