For it is nippily in the 20s here, and we have it all over poor frozen Chicago -- which in turn has it over poor frozen Minneapolis, which is a tropical paradise to my friends in Alaska, who are currently suffering a two-week spell where the temperature is -30. Without windchill.
I am a born and bred Miamian. The entire time I was home for break, it never went below 70. And, when it's cold here, it's normally just cold, not cold-and-wet. This 50 with the rain is completely horrifying. It may not be bone-chilling to anyone else in the country (or even like, remotely cool at all to the poor Alaskans) but here? People are flat-out panicking.
You can do it! You can withstand the ... bone ... chilling ... fifty--
Oh, I can't do this. I would kill a man for fifty. KILL A MAN.
(I wouldn't really kill a man. But it would be amazing. It warmed up from -3 to like 16 yesterday, and it felt like a miraculous mid-January summer's gift.)
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Date: 2009-01-13 05:33 pm (UTC)For it is nippily in the 20s here, and we have it all over poor frozen Chicago -- which in turn has it over poor frozen Minneapolis, which is a tropical paradise to my friends in Alaska, who are currently suffering a two-week spell where the temperature is -30. Without windchill.
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Date: 2009-01-13 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-13 06:37 pm (UTC)Oh, I can't do this. I would kill a man for fifty. KILL A MAN.
(I wouldn't really kill a man. But it would be amazing. It warmed up from -3 to like 16 yesterday, and it felt like a miraculous mid-January summer's gift.)
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Date: 2009-01-13 08:10 pm (UTC)But think if it were reversed! Think of if it were suddenly a sweltering 82 degrees there!
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Date: 2009-01-14 09:08 pm (UTC)put on a sweater and shush