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By MARCEL MARCEAU

January 16, 2009 8:29 AM | Link to this

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By Chip

January 16, 2009 8:30 AM | Link to this

Skiing at Mammoth Mt. in California one Christmas: -20º. THAT was cold.

By Coach O

January 16, 2009 8:31 AM | Link to this

This isn’t cold, just a slight chill. Was skiing with my family at Sundance Utah a few years ago. The temp was -24 and the wind was blowing 45 mph. the windchill factor was -68. NOW THATS COLD. 3 years agw we were at Big Sky Montana the temp was -35. Southerners have no idea what cold is. I do remember it being -8 here in Atlanta about 25-30 years ago. Natives didn’t come out of their houses for a week.

By It's cold to me

January 16, 2009 8:38 AM | Link to this

I just flew back here from Chicago on Wednesday. Now, that place is cold. It was -8 degrees when I got up that morning and I think the high is today is -1. It feels warm in Atlanta now to me compared to Chicago.

By Patty

January 16, 2009 8:39 AM | Link to this

Don’t let these yankees make you feel bad—I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan now after living in Atlanta for forty years. This week, some of the schools are closed because the windchill in the morning hovers around -10 to -15. Cars are sliding off the roads—salt doesn’t work in these temperatures. Yes, these yankess may handle the cold but they drop like flies in temps of 85 and a tad of humidity.

By Charles

January 16, 2009 8:40 AM | Link to this

Delta Junction Ak, early 70’s with my parents working on the pipeline in Alsaka. -72 below without windchill. Wuss’s now that’s cold.

By Cori

January 16, 2009 8:42 AM | Link to this

February, 1996 - Stillwater, Oklahoma. Campus of OSU- I was walking to class, and my nose started running as cold weather can make it do… and it froze. I couldn’t breathe. I had to go back to my dorm for the day! About half the student population didn’t venture out, but those students from Alaska, etc., were running around with no coats and flip flops!

By Buck

January 16, 2009 8:43 AM | Link to this

Midland, Michigan - December 1989. 25 straight days at -20 or below. Never rose above 0 during that time. Cold? I’d say.

By Cori

January 16, 2009 8:43 AM | Link to this

February, 1996 - Stillwater, Oklahoma. Campus of OSU- I was walking to class, and my nose started running as cold weather can make it do… and it froze. I couldn’t breathe. I had to go back to my dorm for the day! About half the student population didn’t venture out, but those students from Alaska, etc., were running around with no coats and flip flops!

By h p

January 16, 2009 8:50 AM | Link to this

Skiing at Bridger Bowl near Bozeman, MT and the temperature was 0 with a windchill of -17. For a southern girl, that was cold! But I do have to say, the cold we have here with our humidity levels vs. the cold out west where the air is very dry, ours is colder to the bones. I’ve been in both and I would much rather be out in the extreme cold of the west than in Georgia.

By brenda

January 16, 2009 8:53 AM | Link to this

Winter Park, Colorado 0 degrees in the morning as we left for skiing. Little kids running around like it was summer. I thought if I moved I would break into a thousand pieces. Forget the difference between a dry cold and a wet cold. Cold is cold!!!!!!

By brenda

January 16, 2009 8:55 AM | Link to this

Winter Park, Colorado 0 degrees in the morning as we left for skiing. Little kids running around like it was summer. I thought if I moved I would break into a thousand pieces. Forget the difference between a dry cold and a wet cold. Cold is cold!!!!!!

By brenda

January 16, 2009 8:57 AM | Link to this

Winter Park, Colorado 0 degrees in the morning as we left for skiing. Little kids running around like it was summer. I thought if I moved I would break into a thousand pieces. Forget the difference between a dry cold and a wet cold. Cold is cold!!!!!!

By Matt

January 16, 2009 8:58 AM | Link to this

January, 2005 backpacking in North Georgia. Yeah, the temp only got down to around 5 or 10. But I had to sleep over night in it. Plus, I was backpacking alone, my sleeping bag was not made for temperatures that low. When I woke up in the morning my only water bottle was frozen solid, even though I slept with it in my sleeping bag.

By Matt

January 16, 2009 9:00 AM | Link to this

January, 2005 backpacking in North Georgia. Yeah, the temp only got down to around 5 or 10. But I had to sleep over night in it. Plus, I was backpacking alone, my sleeping bag was not made for temperatures that low. When I woke up in the morning my only water bottle was frozen solid, even though I slept with it in my sleeping bag.

By Bubba

January 16, 2009 9:01 AM | Link to this

Yankees love to boast about their winter hardiness. Like how great they can all drive in the snow. And then when they get some frozen precip up there the TV news is full of scenes of cars wrecked everywhere. LOL!

By lovelyliz

January 16, 2009 9:02 AM | Link to this

There was the on-site job I had in Great Falls, Montana the third week in January 2005. It has warmed up to 20 degrees and the locals were walking around with no gloves and open coats.

I’ve lived in upstate NY, Western PA and Northern AZ where occassionally students would break out cross-country skis to get to class. Below freezing was normal, but generally people in those locations are smart enough to stay indoors when they can and to bundle up when they can’t.

Of course you could ask them about dealing with 90-95+ degree weather with that much humidity.

Que sera, sera

By johnc22

January 16, 2009 9:02 AM | Link to this

On a snowboarding trip, dangling on a ski lift at Breckenridge, CO where the ambient high temp for the day was -4 at the bottom of the mountain and with wind chill going up the mountain of -44.

By Kevin

January 16, 2009 9:04 AM | Link to this

January 1988 - While serving in the U.S. Marine Corps - Ft. McCoy, WI. While in cold weather survival school, we slept in a homemade shelter we constructed using a fallen tree. The very first night the windchill was minus 60 degrees. Oohrah…highly motivating!

By Toni

January 16, 2009 9:04 AM | Link to this

For people who have never lived in a cold climate this might be cold, but it’s also for people who moved from a cold climate and have been here awhile, you can’t take the cold like you used to. Michigan: the lowest I remember is -20 degrees (actual temp) not windchill, and 2 feet of snow, and the schools did NOT close, jobs did not close, the heat went out at work & they told us to put on gloves and keep typing. Another, refused to close in a blizzard to let us go home early and it took 2.5 hours to drive 20 miles with cars spinning out (around and around in cirlces on the freeway) hoping the other cars could stop & not hit me & still made it to work only to hear “you’re late”. This really is a cakewalk, but I admit last year when I saw the first snowflake, I literally cried. No more snow!..but the next day it was all gone. Before moving here calling my brother to complain it was -15 and 2 feet of snow only to hear, it’s 65 degrees, I hung up on him!

By sunny

January 16, 2009 9:05 AM | Link to this

Folks - ummmm…relax a bit. People in Atlanta have not been EXPOSED to this kind of cold and are not used to it. Quit bashing us. All you northereners have become accustomed to the winters. ALSO, bet you Northerns would WHINE like BABIES if you come to ATLANTA in the sumemr and have to deal with the intense humidity and scorching temperatures. That, my friends, is something Atlantans are used to. IT is all relative. Also, back in 1986 or 87 it was O degrees here in Altanta on Christmas.

By BB

January 16, 2009 9:11 AM | Link to this

You’re right about the 100+ temps in the summer, it takes getting used to but it hasn’t been that hot for a few summers. As far as the cold, when we moved here we had to go back up North to finish clearing out the house & arrived to 3 feet of unshoveled snow & about -10, we looked at each other, packed it up in less than 2 hours, and hit the road straight back here (1600 miles in 28 hours), that’s when I knew Atlanta was home!

By lovelyliz

January 16, 2009 9:12 AM | Link to this

Of course I could tell you about the winter I spent living on Lake Michigan courtesy of the US Navy. It’s wasn’t just the below freezing weeks. The harsh winds coming off the lake made it such a memoprable experience

By Wendy

January 16, 2009 9:14 AM | Link to this

My coldest moment was when I arrived via plane to Bismark, ND November 1996. It was -8 degrees. It was bone chilling.

By kelley

January 16, 2009 9:14 AM | Link to this

Yes, I DO call this cold. Here’s my story about being stuck in cold weather. I was spending the night at a friend’s house one night back when I was in high school. My friend and I snuck out to meet some friends after her parents. This was a January night down in south Georgia. Her dad realized we were gone and locked us out. When we came back to her house at 3am, we couldn’t get back in the house and had to sleep in her car in her driveway at 3am with no coats. It was in the 20’s that night. Not cold to most of you, but try sleeping in a car that’s 20 degrees in nothing but a mini skirt and long sleeve t-shirt.

By kelley

January 16, 2009 9:17 AM | Link to this

Yes, I DO call this cold. Here’s my story about being stuck in cold weather. I was spending the night at a friend’s house one night back when I was in high school. My friend and I snuck out to meet some friends after her parents had gone to bed. This was a January night down in south Georgia. Her dad realized we were gone and locked us out. When we came back to her house at 3am, we couldn’t get back in the house and had to sleep in her car in her driveway at 3am with no coats. It was in the 20’s that night. Not cold to most of you, but try sleeping in a car that’s 20 degrees in nothing but a mini skirt and long sleeve t-shirt.

By Gram

January 16, 2009 9:17 AM | Link to this

I spent my entire life until graduation in D.C./Va. We went to school in 4’ of snow, one lane open on highways that looked like bobsled runs…they put chains on the buses and off we went! We got very FEW snow days because we knew how to deal with them. We didn’t freak out at the first sign of a snowflake. We spent entire days outside playing in 3-4’ snow, and only came in to change into dry clothes. Southerners are wussies.

By Bubba

January 16, 2009 9:19 AM | Link to this

I was on an expedition to the South Pole several years ago. The temperture was 70 below with a wind child of minus 150. I was wearing shorts, flip-flops and a tank top the whole time. I didn’t think it was all that cold. And I’m from Willacoochee!

By kelley

January 16, 2009 9:19 AM | Link to this

…that should have read “after her parents had gone to bed.”

By Bob

January 16, 2009 9:23 AM | Link to this

I’m from Upstate NY, but the coldest weather I ever had was -40 (-70 wind chill) when working for a couple of months in Wisconsin in ‘94.

Yes, the weather right now is cold, but it’s not worth whining about. And no, I didn’t whine about the heat when I moved down here. Actually, I don’t think people in the South deal with the heat as well as Northerners. It may be 90-100 down here instead of 80-90 up there…but everyone here has air conditioning in their homes. That’s not that common in the North…most homes, schools, small businesses, etc. are not air conditioned. I was more than happy to take the extra heat and humidity when I got here, knowing that I could enjoy the cool temps when I went inside.

By ptkdude

January 16, 2009 9:26 AM | Link to this

My best friend and I were sledding in his back yard in suburban Chicago. Being smart 7-year-olds, we built up a bank of snow so we wouldn’t sled into the frozen creek, and proceeded to launch ourselves down the hill in a saucer sled. We hit our “wall” of snow which acted like a ramp, and lauched up in the air over the creek, crashing down through the ice and getting soaking wet. We were freezing cold and quickly warmed up, but 28 years later that’s still my fondest memory of Chicago wintertime.

By Bob

January 16, 2009 9:29 AM | Link to this

I’m from Upstate NY, but the coldest weather I ever had was -40 (-70 wind chill) when working for a couple of months in Wisconsin in ‘94.

Yes, the weather right now is cold, but it’s not worth whining about. And no, I didn’t whine about the heat when I moved down here. Actually, I don’t think people in the South deal with the heat as well as Northerners. It may be 90-100 down here instead of 80-90 up there…but everyone here has air conditioning in their homes. That’s not that common in the North…most homes, schools, small businesses, etc. are not air conditioned. I was more than happy to take the extra heat and humidity when I got here, knowing that I could enjoy the cool temps when I went inside.

By lct

January 16, 2009 9:34 AM | Link to this

When I was a teenager in the band, I marched in the inaugural parade for Lurleen Wallace. It was so cold that the fountain at Prattville was frozen. After the parade, I couldn’t feel my feet at all, and actually had ice crystals between my toes. I’ve never been so cold and miserable in my life, before or since. And I’m 60 and have spent lots of time up north and in the Rockies.

By David

January 16, 2009 9:38 AM | Link to this

Coldest Momment?… The entire month of January 1998 never got above Freezing in Kansas City MO where I attended college !!

By Jorge

January 16, 2009 9:38 AM | Link to this

Come on with the cold. My last year in Chicago before moving to the Atlanta area, we got an Artic blast and the temperature went down to minus 73 degrees witht eh wind chill factor. And our furnace broke, we could not get a repair man until the following day, because of the weather. We sent our kids to my best house and my wife and I had to stay in the house and use blow torches to keep the pipes from freezing. We had to bundle up with about 5 to 6 blankets and we killed a bottle of rum. And by the way, my wife did nid drink, until that day. So, now that’s cold.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 9:38 AM | Link to this

You kids call this cold? When I was young, I walked 10 miles to school in 5 feet of snow, barefooted, uphill both ways. It used to snow INSIDE my house, we didn’t even have walls until I was 13 years old. That’s the way it was, and we liked it.

By David

January 16, 2009 9:39 AM | Link to this

Coldest Momment?… The entire month of January 1978 never got above Freezing in Kansas City MO where I attended college !!

By Dave

January 16, 2009 9:40 AM | Link to this

In 1975, I went to college in Ellendale, North Dakota. A blizzard came along during the Iditarod snowmobile races that were being conducted along the Canadian border. Most of the snowmobilers were lost for several hours, but were found in three separate groups, keeping warm. The temperature was -33 degrees, with a wind-chill factor of over -100 degrees. Afterwards on the news, they had a story of a farm that had all of their cattle that had escaped from their barns, were found frozen in the fields. There were hundreds of them that were piled up in one spot with a bulldozer.

By Jorge

January 16, 2009 9:41 AM | Link to this

Come on with the cold. My last year in Chicago before moving to the Atlanta area, we got an Artic blast and the temperature went down to minus 73 degrees witht eh wind chill factor. And our furnace broke, we could not get a repair man until the following day, because of the weather. We sent our kids to my best house and my wife and I had to stay in the house and use blow torches to keep the pipes from freezing. We had to bundle up with about 5 to 6 blankets and we killed a bottle of rum. And by the way, my wife did nid drink, until that day. So, now that’s cold.

By jeed

January 16, 2009 9:42 AM | Link to this

Coldness and warmth perceptions are relative - based on what you’re accustomed to.

But I guess if you just HAVE to write a story…

By thatsme

January 16, 2009 9:43 AM | Link to this

The coldest? -10 degrees in NY. Contrary to the believe on this board, though, just as cold as it gets up north, in some cities in the north we do get the 3 Hs (hazy, hot and humid). It can get just as hot in NY and Chicago as it does in Atlanta (and I know someone’s going to cry “it’s a different kind of heat” — hot is hot). I just want to have another conversation with the person who told me when I was younger that it doesn’t get this cold in the south.

By Alfred

January 16, 2009 9:44 AM | Link to this

Great Lakes Naval Base on the shore of Lake Michigan. I had to stand a 4 hour watch outside wearing nothing but a Navy Pea coat in -21 degrees.

By chilly

January 16, 2009 9:44 AM | Link to this

I grew up in Mpls and in the mid 60’s we had a ‘cold snap’ that went on for days. One morning it was -35 and who knows what the wind chill was, we didn’t track it back then. I hoped my car wouldn’t start so I could avoid the long drive to work, but my new ‘65 Mustang (no garage) popped right off. Later, when I left work, my car along with a lot of other cars in the lot, had a dead battery. It was the coldest I’ve ever been. My toes on one foot partially froze waiting for help to start the car. However, I would take cold any day over the heat and humidity here that just wipes me out. I feel like a dish rag all summer. Friends say I will adjust to this climate but I’m asking “when?”

By Robert

January 16, 2009 9:49 AM | Link to this

One thing you won’t hear a Yankee asking is which way to I-75 northbound.

By b

January 16, 2009 9:50 AM | Link to this

Winter of 1979 in Green Bay Wisconsin; temperature never above 0 the entire month of January. Had to walk everywhere as I rented and did not have anywhere to plug my car in so I could not get it started. Windchills were bad. Just bundled up in layers and boots and went on. Amazing what living in a warmer climate has done to me, now I am cold ALL the time!

By jeed

January 16, 2009 9:53 AM | Link to this

By sunny

I never understood why “intelligent” people don’t get this. They go on and on about how we close schools, close businesses, etc. When you only get serious ice/snow once a decade - you can AFFORD to shut the city down for a day or two. If you’re in a region where snow/ice during the winter is rather normal, obviously you don’t have that luxury. I’ve been in ATL 9 years and remember only one “significant” snow event (6” if I remember correctly, with a 2-3 day school/business shutdown). We can absorb that in a decade. Like you said, it’s all relative.

By C. M. Thornton, III

January 16, 2009 9:54 AM | Link to this

When I was in the Army I was stationed at Fort Greeley, Alaska, near the town of Delta Junction. The coldest I can remember was at Bolio Lake (the site of the Army’s Cold Regions Test Center). We were out training and the temperature was around -45 degrees below zero with about a 20 mph wind.

But it was a dry cold…

By Deirdre

January 16, 2009 9:55 AM | Link to this

My husband was stationed at Loring Air Force Base in the wilds of northern Maine. We had moose crossing our front yard. One night, while he was on duty, the temperature reach -45 with a wind chill of -90. No garages were available, so I had to set my alarm to go off every 2 hours so I could go out and start the truck. Even a die-hard battery can’t handle those temps.

By KeyWester

January 16, 2009 9:56 AM | Link to this

It’s going down to a bone-chilling 59 degrees tonight here in Key West - now THAT’S Cold!

By Tom

January 16, 2009 9:57 AM | Link to this

-70 degrees in North Pole, Alaska (just south of Fairbanks). Driving in the Ice Fog was bad enough but then the brakes on the car froze then it got really exciting. Pushed on the brake pedal and nothing!

By RJones

January 16, 2009 10:00 AM | Link to this

This isn’t cold. When I was young, my house got so cold, my parents would always keep the new babies in the refrigerator until they were 6 months old to keep them warm. That is the way it was, and we liked it.

By bigboomfromNY

January 16, 2009 10:02 AM | Link to this

At the age of 16 a little after my mother died, i wne to live with my brother in the T.O. It was end of Janurary and the degeee;s were -10 to -12 degrees below zero. We also had a accumulated snowfall of over 3ft in 1 1/2 weeks. Snow was piled upto the front door. we actuallyu climbed out of a window in order to get outside to shovel. Now thaT IS COLD!!!! THIS IS LIKE SPRING WETHER DOWNHERE.

By Jeff

January 16, 2009 10:03 AM | Link to this

Top of Arapahoe Basin at 4am (ski patrol), with a 40-50 mph wind, and it was already -20. And I had to work in it. So cold your mucus froze.

By me

January 16, 2009 10:03 AM | Link to this

I’m from Maryland and we had lots and lots of cold weather. However, I moved down here to get away from it so when temps dip this low I complain. But seriously, close schools?? Why? Bundle the children up in layers or drive them to school so they don’t have to wait for the bus. I walked to school, in the freezing cold, with several inches of snow on the ground and lived through it!!

By New Englander

January 16, 2009 10:04 AM | Link to this

I was in Fairbanks, Alaska in January 1988 when the temperature was -88 degrees. My breath froze to my eyelashes.

By reservoirDAWG

January 16, 2009 10:04 AM | Link to this

-40 in Jackson Hole, not including the wind chill. It is so cold in the winters out there you have to plug your car in so the engine block doesn’t freeze. I love cold weather.

By Randy

January 16, 2009 10:05 AM | Link to this

I used to travel to Chicago for the winter carpet market. January of 1984 it was the coldest it had been in Chicago in 105 years. Actual temp was -27 with a windchill of -81.

By jc

January 16, 2009 10:05 AM | Link to this

Growing up in the UP of Michigan we had 2 seasons. Winter and July 4th.

I was walking to school one morning in the late 70’s and a snow plow covered me in snow. They did not find me until an early spring thaw.

By bigboomfromNY

January 16, 2009 10:06 AM | Link to this

At the age of 16 a little after my mother died, i wne to live with my brother in the T.O. It was end of Janurary and the degeee;s were -10 to -12 degrees below zero. We also had a accumulated snowfall of over 3ft in 1 1/2 weeks. Snow was piled upto the front door. we actuallyu climbed out of a window in order to get outside to shovel. Now thaT IS COLD!!!! THIS IS LIKE SPRING WETHER DOWNHERE.

By Nan

January 16, 2009 10:08 AM | Link to this

Upper Michigan, general vicinity of Houghton, winter of 1993-94. Coldest winter in 100 years. -40 many mornings in a row. I’d step outside, blink, and feel my eyelashes freezing.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 10:08 AM | Link to this

When I was young, my parents used to keep half their children frozen in the snow in the back yard, and thaw them out in the spring. Just to save money on food. That’s the way it was and we liked it.

By me

January 16, 2009 10:09 AM | Link to this

I’m from Maryland and we had lots and lots of cold weather. However, I moved down here to get away from it so when temps dip this low I complain. But seriously, close schools?? Why? Bundle the children up in layers or drive them to school so they don’t have to wait for the bus. I walked to school, in the freezing cold, with several inches of snow on the ground and lived through it!!

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 10:16 AM | Link to this

It was so cold when I was young, I was a teenager before I saw water in liquid form, or fire. That’s the way that it was and we liked it.

By Space1999

January 16, 2009 10:18 AM | Link to this

Who says we’re whining? I don’t know anyone who is compaining about it. People up north are the ones who need to quit whining. They decided to live up there, so deal with it! You couldn’t pay me to live up there in all that ice and snow during the winter.

The coldest I ever experienced was working the flight line in the Air Force at Tinker, AFB OK. I witnessed my friend pour a Mountain Dew out and it froze before it hit the ground. Now THAT’s COLD!!!

By Dylan

January 16, 2009 10:21 AM | Link to this

This is cold, but I’ve been in way worse. I went to North Bay, Ontario, Canada a few years back for Christmas and it got down to -32.

By Italian Rick

January 16, 2009 10:22 AM | Link to this

I remember a winter back in 1987 down on Miami Beach. Cold front came through and temperatures dipped down into the 70’s. Girls on the beach had to cover their bikini’s up to stay warm. It was a tragedy. I will never forget that winter so long as I live.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 10:23 AM | Link to this

When I was young it was so cold, my 2 household chores were to warm the matches up so they would light, and to sweep out the frozen possums. That’s the way it was and we liked it.

By Marti Hernandez Rojas

January 16, 2009 10:27 AM | Link to this

Cheap motel in Flagstaff, Ariz. in March. Heater went out during the night and it was -2.

Hottest ever was Williamsburg, Va. in July. It was 104 degrees and 97 percent humidity. Miserable.

By Cold Soldier

January 16, 2009 10:31 AM | Link to this

Fort Drum, New York - on a field training exercise with an Army Light Infantry Division -40 without wind chill

By Mike D

January 16, 2009 10:32 AM | Link to this

1. Skiing in Banff, Canada in 2004. It was 30 below 0 the first day on the slopes.

2. Holidays in Chicago in 1998. Stayed below 0 most of the time. Got stranded for 2 days on the way back in Lafayette, IN because entire highway system was iced over.

By ATLHEK

January 16, 2009 10:33 AM | Link to this

Cincinnati Ohio - It started as an ice storm, which left about an inch of ice on the ground, then it turned to snow and finally, after snowing about 6 inches, the temperature dropped to -28, all in about 24 hours time.

By Peyton Walters

January 16, 2009 10:35 AM | Link to this

It was 1984 and I had a job interview at the Omni with the Business Council of Georgia. Someone had broken into my car the night before by breaking the driver side window, stealing my new dress shoes. The wind chill was -15, so I put my shower curtain in the window and drove downtown. I impressed during the interview and had a good feeling an offer was forthcoming. Then Gene Dyson, head of the organization came into meet me. I caught him looking at my crappy shoes. The offer went out the window right then. I should have told the humorous story about all that I’d gone through to get to the interview when much of the Metro area was shut down. What a tool (not me, him).

By Sirius

January 16, 2009 10:35 AM | Link to this

LMAO @ Italian Rick!!

By Don

January 16, 2009 10:37 AM | Link to this

When I was in Thule, Greenland in the Air Force, we didn’t always know the temperature, but knew it was cold when your breath froze on your eyebrows, eyelids, and the fur on your parka. Also, one way to see how cold it is ourside is to open the door of a building, slosh a bucket of water into the outside air, and if it immediately freezes (you hear a pop) and hits the ground as ice, it is cold out there !!

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 10:37 AM | Link to this

When I was young, we looked forward to Frostbite, it made us unique. Now all you fancy-smancy people insist on having all your limbs. Like having 10 fingers and feet make you so much better than me. That’s the way that it was and we liked it.

By csk219

January 16, 2009 10:40 AM | Link to this

I am from the Philadelphia area and this is normal winter weather for me. I really don’t miss the very bitter cold and the snow up there and really enjoy the summer here even the 90’s. As for winter weather you really only have short spells of cold weather. Not months of highs only in the 30’s. I am still not used to seeing daffodils blooming in February and I have been here 10 years.

By Bob VK

January 16, 2009 10:42 AM | Link to this

Standing a lookout watch on the flying bridge of a Navy ship in the north Atlantic in the middle of the winter. We wore heavy weather gear, stood watch 15 minutes on and 15 minutes off, and were issued medicinal brandy after we were off duty. I have no idea what the temperature was.

By R Hale

January 16, 2009 10:47 AM | Link to this

Staioned at remote post in the arctic for the air force the heating system broke down. At forty below it didn’t take long for the water in the toilets to freeze solid.

By Larry

January 16, 2009 10:48 AM | Link to this

I grew up in North Dakota. In 1985 it went to -105degrees. In the mornings after taking a shower, I went outside to walk to school and my wet hair froze instantly and shen I shook the ice out of my hait it was dry. We broke the ice every morning so that the animals could drink water. The snow blew up against the houses so high to the roof line so that we sled off the rooftop.

By Larry

January 16, 2009 10:48 AM | Link to this

I grew up in North Dakota. In 1985 it went to -105degrees. In the mornings after taking a shower, I went outside to walk to school and my wet hair froze instantly and shen I shook the ice out of my hait it was dry. We broke the ice every morning so that the animals could drink water. The snow blew up against the houses so high to the roof line so that we sled off the rooftop.

By John

January 16, 2009 10:53 AM | Link to this

The coldest I have ever been was when I in Evanston, Illinois in February of 1975. The temperature was below zero. Add to that the snow and the wind coming off Lake Michigan and I was cold. Jimmy Carter’s Inauguration Day in 1977 was close. Calling off school today in Carroll and Haralson counties was a joke. Every administrator in those schools should have to go a week without pay for such aninane decision since they forced many parents to take off work for absolutely no reason.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 10:54 AM | Link to this

When I was young, it was so cold that we could never get undressed. I was married to a man for 5 years before I realized my mistake. That’s the way it was and we liked it.

By Cobia

January 16, 2009 11:08 AM | Link to this

Coldest moment? Spending time with my ex-girlfriend in Athens, GA. Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter of 1983!!!!!!!

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 11:08 AM | Link to this

It was so cold when I was young, birds would freeze in mid-air. My father made me get a pole and knock them to the ground for supper. My favorite was braised, shredded crow on a bed of ice cubes. That’s the way it was and we liked it.

By Bibay

January 16, 2009 11:12 AM | Link to this

Cold is in the bones of the beholder.

By bizezgrrrl

January 16, 2009 11:19 AM | Link to this

High School Ski Club … the top of Rocket Run at Bristol Mountain in Western New York, around 8 pm.

I don’t know what the actual temperature was, but the wind was howling and I’d never felt so cold in my life. I decided two things on my way down that hill:

• I was never going to ski again.
• I was going to move somewhere warmer as soon as I could.

I haven’t skied since and moved here after college five years later.

By Georgia Girl

January 16, 2009 11:19 AM | Link to this

All of us here in the south fully realize that it’s been colder somewhere else, some other time. But it’s STILL cold, darn it, so shut up.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 11:22 AM | Link to this

When I was young, we were so bored during the winter,we would dip the younger kids in the frozen creek, and bet on how long it would take before they started breathing again. My late brother, Junior, still holds the record. That’s the way it was and we liked it.

By Tony

January 16, 2009 11:39 AM | Link to this

No, it doesn’t get as cold here as it does up north. That’s why we all live here and wouldn’t live anywhere else. That’s why all you moron Yankees move DOWN here. (And boy, don’t we wish we could send half of you back).

And boy, let me tell you, I love listening to YOU in the summertime complain about the heat, mosquitoes, and gnats.

Let’s make a deal. You don’t complain about the heat and humidity, and we won’t complain about the cold.

By Tom Walker

January 16, 2009 11:39 AM | Link to this

When I was stationed at Fort Drum N.Y. in the Army we were out in the frozen bush at 30 degrees below with a strong wind chill coming off of lake Ontario. That took it down to about 60 below. Even with arctic weather gear we had Dozens of cold weather casualties. Man I love the South.

By Tom Walker

January 16, 2009 11:41 AM | Link to this

When I was stationed at Fort Drum N.Y. in the Army we were out in the frozen bush at 30 degrees below with a strong wind chill coming off of lake Ontario. That took it down to about 60 below. Even with arctic weather gear we had Dozens of cold weather casualties. Man I love the South.

By sherry

January 16, 2009 11:52 AM | Link to this

Your right we don’t have a clue about cold that why I live in Atlanta. I don’t want to know about being cold. I hate cold weather. And yes this is cold to a true southern, not a tranplant.

By CHRIS

January 16, 2009 12:03 PM | Link to this

20 years ago I was working for EASTERN AIRLINES at Hartsfield. It was 2nd shift and -15 on the RAMP. My feet and hands were frozen and I was working a double shift. I swore that I would never work outside again in my life. It took me at least 1hr to thaw out after work before I even tried to go home.

By EH

January 16, 2009 12:03 PM | Link to this

Hey, everything’s relative. For us, this is COLD, I don’t care who you are.

By Tony

January 16, 2009 12:05 PM | Link to this

One other thing…..

As one who has worked an outside job (railroad) for 32 years, I will say this: you can DRESS for the cold. I have never had problem putting on enough clothes to stay warm, but in the hellish hot summers we have here you can’t TAKE OFF enough to stay cool. You could work in your underpants and boots and still burn your ass up, not to mention the mosquito and gnat bites. Hot, 100 degree heat with 90% humidity is a hell of a lot worse than this could ever be.

I LIKE this kind of weather. It is a great relief from the heat. The only downside to it is my gas bill goes up some, but it’s worth the price.

By KoolAid House

January 16, 2009 12:09 PM | Link to this

My coldest moment was when I was working on Wall Street. Born in raised in NY, I’m use to the cold but hate it w/every fiber of my being. I had to go to work to get my check. Walked to the train station where the snow was up to my kneecaps. The only thing showing on me was my eyes. I had to many clothes on I felt like the rock em, sock em robot….never forget that. I fell many times getting to that damn train station.

By kimmer

January 16, 2009 12:13 PM | Link to this

Stop it, OLD MAN, you’re making me choke, I’m laughing so much. People are looking over here.

By KoolAid House

January 16, 2009 12:14 PM | Link to this

My coldest moment was when I was working on Wall Street. Born in raised in NY, I’m use to the cold but hate it w/every fiber of my being. I had to go to work to get my check. Walked to the train station where the snow was up to my kneecaps. The only thing showing on me was my eyes. I had to many clothes on I felt like the rock em, sock em robot….never forget that. I fell many times getting to that damn train station.

By KoolAid House

January 16, 2009 12:17 PM | Link to this

Thank goodness for “direct deposit.” (LOL). I apologize to all you grammar police for the typos in my previous post. I do know the difference between “to” and “too”.

By perryswife

January 16, 2009 12:20 PM | Link to this

I’m from the midwest, Muskegon, Michigan, I can remember walking 2 miles to school with a runny nose, by the time I got to school, the nose run had frozen on my face. The school nurse had to pour hot water on my face to clean it.

By KoolAid House

January 16, 2009 12:23 PM | Link to this

Thank goodness for “direct deposit.” (LOL). I apologize to all you grammar police for the typos in my previous post. I do know the difference between “to” and “too”.

By Michelle

January 16, 2009 12:24 PM | Link to this

I get so sick and tired of hearing from folks from the north. When you have lived here your whole life, there isn’t anything to compare this kind of cold to, so to us.. yes it’s freakin cold. Lets see how ya’ll Yanks do when it’s in the 90’s with humidity.

By Midwesterner

January 16, 2009 12:28 PM | Link to this

This “cold” spell is starting to remind me of my youth in Indiana. Days (30+) of the high temperature not getting above 32 degrees.

upper 50s’-low 60’s one day, below 32 the next. Snow on Halloween.

By KoolAid House

January 16, 2009 12:29 PM | Link to this

Thank you kimmer, cuz I too am cracking up @ OLD MAN!!!

By KoolAid House

January 16, 2009 12:35 PM | Link to this

Thank you kimmer, cuz I too am cracking up @ OLD MAN!!!

By KoolAid House

January 16, 2009 12:39 PM | Link to this

Sorry for the dbl posting. I’ve been having this problem for about 2 weeks now. The blog machine has lost a few bolts and is either eating my posts or dbl posting them. Oy Vey!

By Leggs

January 16, 2009 12:43 PM | Link to this

Bubba, we Yankees are known for our “winter hardiness.” It has nothing to do with the condition of the roads when snow turns to ice. We don’t control the elements. We endure what’s dished out to us the best way we can!

By KoolAid House

January 16, 2009 12:44 PM | Link to this

Sorry for the dbl posting. I’ve been having this problem for about 2 weeks now. The blog machine has lost a few bolts and is either eating my posts or dbl posting them. Oy Vey!

By Bruno

January 16, 2009 12:45 PM | Link to this

The coldest I ever got was on Christmas Day, 1980 while pumping gas in Buena, New Jersey. The temp was around -20 with wind chills dipping below -60. Because we were the only station open, I had to stand by the pumps for 8 straight hours with no break. I remember making about $18 in tip money that day, which I appreciated. Considering that I waited on close to 100 people, however, in retrospect I think the customers were being kind of cheap….

By Leggs

January 16, 2009 12:48 PM | Link to this

Bubba, we Yankees are known for our “winter hardiness.” It has nothing to do with the condition of the roads when snow turns to ice. We don’t control the elements. We endure what’s dished out to us the best way we can!

By Rondell

January 16, 2009 12:54 PM | Link to this

I’ve never experienced anything *COLDER than my lying, cheating, manipulative, game-playing EX-girlfriend who rubbed my face in the fact that she kicked it” to my brother when she was breaking up with me for yet another man.

By Corkie

January 16, 2009 1:06 PM | Link to this

Most schools are built on concrete slabs. Because we do not have brutally cold weather often, the furnaces installed are not adequate to battle the cold. What teacher wants to stand in front of a classroom of shivering students dressed in their outdoor clothes?

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 1:24 PM | Link to this

WelL KIMMER and KOOL AID HOUSE, I am glad that my lack of feeling in my remaining limbs is a source of amusement for you. I would like to see you have to chisel out the frozen smoke from the chimney, so you could light a fire. My parents didn’t even know if I was a boy or girl until they accidentally dropped me in a pot of boiling water they were using to skin the mailman. That’s the way it was and we liked it.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 1:56 PM | Link to this

It was so cold when I was young, that people wouldn’t even show up on photographs. The one picture that I had of my Dad when he was young, I didn’t even recognize , because he still had his nose. That’s the way it was and we liked it.

By Leggs

January 16, 2009 1:59 PM | Link to this

ROFLMAO…sorry for what you went through OLD MAN, but your writing style is funny as hell!

By Leggs

January 16, 2009 2:04 PM | Link to this

ROFLMAO…sorry for what you went through OLD MAN, but your writing style is funny as hell!

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 2:26 PM | Link to this

It was so cold, that when people died it was hard to dispose of the bodies, because the dirt was too hard. Out of all the family, I believe Aunt Mary made the best casserole. And we liked IT.

By Kool Aid House

January 16, 2009 2:35 PM | Link to this

Now you done gone an hit a road bump w/that last post OLD MAN

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 2:35 PM | Link to this

ROLFMAO, what kind of jibberish is that. You young whipper-snappers and your fancy language. We didn’t have but 3 letters when I was young, and they were all consonants, because we couldn’t afford vowels. nd w lkd t!

By Kool Aid House

January 16, 2009 2:40 PM | Link to this

Now you done gone an hit a road bump w/that last post OLD MAN

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 2:42 PM | Link to this

We didn’t have what you would call a ‘spoken language’, because the air was too cold for sound to travel through. That and the missing lips. An wi lakd eit.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 2:48 PM | Link to this

Every winter was cold, but the Winter of ‘36 was particularly brutal. I remember Ma went through the house and took the skin of all the dropped body parts and made a quilt. That thing is worth 15 hunnert dollars according to that feller on the Antiques Roadshow! And he liked it.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 2:56 PM | Link to this

It was so cold that everyone was bundled up in thick, heavy clothes.A bear got in the house and ate Uncle Abner, and we didn’t even find out for 3 years. We didn’t care because , the bear smelled better and was better company than Uncle Abner. And we liked it.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 3:25 PM | Link to this

It got so cold, that the laws of gravity and physics didn’t apply. When we sneezed, the solids would bounce around the room like a hockey puck, and wouldn’t hit the floor for 5 minutes. The spray would hang in the air like curtains, and would stay there until the spring thaw. It got really hard to walk around that damn house. When we all got the flu, you had to chew the air before you could breathe it. We didn’t care for that too much.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 3:40 PM | Link to this

It got so cold, that when we passed gas, it rose to the ceiling and formed a yellow, semi- solid cloud that clinged tight to the ceiling, and didn’t dissolve until the rays of the Sun would hit it in April. By God, we hated Spring.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 3:52 PM | Link to this

That noxious cloud would dissolve about 1/4 inch of the roof every winter, and we found that on average, we could get about 5 years out of a new roof. We made shingles out of whatever poor animals that couldn’t find shelter quick enough when the Sun went down. Sliced and freeze-dried, they made pretty decent roofing material. And delicious too.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 4:02 PM | Link to this

Well, I hope you enjoyed reading about the memories of my childhood, although I am sure that it wasn’t as nice as I have made it seem. Got to get on my fancy duds and take my Wife and Sister out to a fancy dinner. She likes the Golden Corral.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 4:49 PM | Link to this

It was so cold, that when my parents couldn’t afford a baby sitter, they would wet whatever body parts we had left, and stick us to the handrail on the front porch. Of course, that didn’t necessarily mean we would be there when they got home. High three!

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 4:58 PM | Link to this

It was so cold, that my brothers and I would play TIC TAC TOE with real toes.

By OLD MAN

January 16, 2009 5:32 PM | Link to this

It was so cold, it took 30 minutes to do #1, and then you had to remove it from your leg with a pocket knife. It formed into a pliable, spongy solid that we used as weather stripping until it combined with rain at which time it would explode and blister your skin.

By OLD MAN

January 17, 2009 2:27 PM | Link to this

It was so cold, that at any given time, we never knew how many children were in the family, what with the newborns poppin out from time to time, and depending on how many of us kids made it home from school through the snow. To this day, I believe Pa went to his grave not ever knowing how many kids he had, because of his lack of book learning and of course fingers. My best guess would be about 13, not counting the wolf cubs.

By OLD MAN

January 17, 2009 2:38 PM | Link to this

It was so cold that finding food was a constant problem, and if we could find anything alive, we would of course eat it. Whenever the newborns went missing and we had the time to look for them, we would usually find them out in the doghouse nursin’ Old Blue, our coon dog. You couldn’t blame them, it was the only warm meal they ever had. What a dog that Old Blue was , he was the finest hound in the county, won a lot of ribbons at the Fair.