A real Minnesota winter this year

[William_MacKean]

Even though it is cold enough out to cut glass with my nipples, I still wear my nylon wind breaker.  My boss looks at me like I'm nuts.

[Random Girl]

**grumble** **grumble**

My Kia won't start

**grumble** **grumble**

I hate MN

**grumble** **grumble**

[Muffin]

**grumble** **grumble**

My Kia won't start

**grumble** **grumble**

I hate MN

**grumble** **grumble**

Aww man!! that stinks!! my little Mazda argued with me this morning, but I finally won the battle....

Winter is stupid... 

[Muffin]

Muffin, I too am from Fargo but also moved farther North past Grand Forks where it was -20 in January all the time. Blizzards all the time and lots of being out of school. I also remember having to walk to school in Elementary as there was no busing (sp) for city kids. It was like a mile to school. On really really cold days my mom may have given me a ride to school if she could get out of work. What I really hated was in High School all the farm kids came in the diesel trucks and kept them running from after lunch until after school was out and the rest of us were jumping cars and freezing as they just drove off in a warm truck...damn them!!

Buses to school? Ha! We didn't have no stinkin buses!! Yep I for the most part walked everyday, unless it was really really really cold (and yes that means colder than it is today!!) I might get lucky and catch a ride with the neighborhood stay at home Mom...

Remind me why we all stay living in the frozen land of MN again? 

[William_MacKean]

A can of 'starting fluid' from any hardware or auto parts store goes a long way.  Just pop the hood and spray a bit of it on the 'under' side of the air cleaner, where the air is drawn in.

That'll give just enough combustible to get the first couple revs in before the computer wakes up.

I do this all the time with sleds, ATVs, cars, and a lawnmower.

[white trillium]

Between the cold and the icy roads it was an interesting drive to the park and ride this morning!  Started off by getting hung up in the driveway (the driveway slopes down and is just steep enough to cause problems)...it likely is because I get to drive the conversion van (it scares the teen) and ended up sliding into a parking spot.

[Toarmod]

Remind me why we all stay living in the frozen land of MN again? 

Beacause snow is FUN! Snowmobiles, sledding, sking... yup good times there. I will admit it's too friggin cold though. 10-20 is allright but this negative number stuff is a little chilly!

OH and because we have a really cool ren fest!

BTW one of my most favorite things is best served ice cold. 

[Muffin]

BTW one of my most favorite things is best served ice cold. 

Scotch? Smoked Meat? Or no wait I know!!! BEEEEEEEEEERRRRRR!!!!

I like beer.. 

[Toarmod]

BTW one of my most favorite things is best served ice cold. 

Scotch? Smoked Meat? Or no wait I know!!! BEEEEEEEEEERRRRRR!!!!

I like beer.. 

ZZZZzzzzzz...Snort! Huh. Did someone say beer?

[Lady Amy of York]

Good times . . .

I remember when I was but a lad in the wilds of South Dakota, the wind sweeping across the plains, where every snowstorm was a blizzard.  1974, I recall a particularly nasty storm, lasted 4 days.  My dad and the hand, shoveled their way out to the cars and barns and animals, through the drifts.  I went out to play and was able to climb up said drift and look down on my dad's head.  6-7 ft drift, right in the middle of our front yard, nothing but snow dunes as far as the 4 yr old eye could see.

Thank god I live in a city now where that really can't happen . . . still pretty brisk waiting for the school bus this morning.

Does anyone  remember the blizzard of  1978,  that crippled  everything in it's  path  for  days  !    I vaguely remember  that one, cause i did  not have  to go  to school  for  days  !
    And how  about the  big ice  storm  in 1998   that hit  the   east coast.  Areas  around  here were without power  for  three weeks  !
          What is  all this i hear about global warming !   It is  minus  25  here  today   where I live  in New York  !   Now that is  cold  !

[Lord Figaro]

I lived in Fall River Mass when the blizzard of 78 hit. It was that snow storm that made me hate snow from then on. My parents felt that you should never let the snow get higher than 3 inches, so I had to go out and shovel the walk ways. Not only that, but back in those days they parked in the street, so it was my job to shovel the cars out as well. Not an easy thing to do when the snow plows kept coming along and burying them back in. After about the third time I was forced outside in the dang thing to do my chore, I threw my shovel at the plow when it passed and went back inside. I told my mom she could beat me till her arm got too sore move, but I wasn't going back out till the snow had stopped.  I think we ended up getting around 4 feet of snow fall out of it. I do remember schools were closed for weeks. It was the one silver lining out of the whole deal.

[Phelyp, Lord Maydestone]

-42C this a.m. in NW Ontario.  Lord have mercy!

[Storm]

Two winters really stick out to me.

I can't remember what year the 1st one was. It was in the mid to late 70's and I was maybe 10 years old or so. My grandparents were farmers and I remember one winter the drifts being as high as the roofs on some of the out buildings. Me and and a friend of mine spent a day climbing up the roofs then sliding down them into the snowbanks. It was such fun. Neither of us had ever seen snow so deep or drifts so high. My grandpa had to plow a path down the road with a tractor with a scoop shovel on it, just so the car get to the farm. The banks on either side of the road were higher then the roof of the car. That was winter in southwestern MN. Lots of flat land and the winds just whipped the snow into a frenzy.

The other was the winter of '91. More specifically the Halloween Blizzard. 38 inches of snow in less then 1 day. I was on college then. The storm hit on a Thursday night. Me and my room mates woke up late Friday morning (we closed the bars down Halloween night) to a mountain of snow. We lived within walking distance of a bar and a liquor store (which both managed to stay open the whole time...imagine that, and they did quite the business from us snowed in students that weekend)...need I say more!?...It ended up being weekend of snowed in drunkenness and partying with all the other students around who were snowed in too. It was a great time!.

All in all, I love the snow, but the bitter cold is getting harder to handle the older I get. Temps in the teens I don't mind. But the negative 20 crap, I can do without...

[renren]

-42C this a.m. in NW Ontario.  Lord have mercy!

Is that the temp? or windchill?

It's so cold, they canceled school today!

[Ren Jen]

I remember when we moved from Hallock (you know like 10 miles from the border) to Hoffman ( near Alex)  all the kids were like did you have lots of snow up North.  Nope.  It was to dang cold up there.  In the 4 year I lived in Hallock it seamed we never got more than a foot the whole winter because it was too cold to snow or something.  I was pretty young and don't really remember much from back then.  I do remember them lecturing us each year on what to do if saw a bear on the way to or from school.  That still cracks me up.  I wanted to see a bear so bad and never saw one.