Not that big a deal. Growing up in the 70’s in Chicago it was routine. And they NEVER cancelled school or shut down the government. We are now a nation of wussies.
I had built an automatic matering system just about a month ago and I was pleased it was still operational.
The time I took to plug in a heat lamp and position it, and walk the 25 yds or so back to the house was enough to chill right throught my thermies and bibs and carhart jacket.
That was at around 3 or 4 ABOVE yesterday.
My nostrils stuck together breathing
No we are a nation that pays drug addicts to have more kids so nowadays if you had school you’d have 6 year olds sent out in hoodies and shorts to go to school in -11
I went through basic at Great Lakes Oct 25, 76- Dec 20, 76. Several times marching in formation and uniform of the day was suspended due to extreme cold temps. Chief told us put on all you have and get to the mess hall as best you can. When I came home after basic training for Christmas the lakes here in East Tennessee were frozen over at least a foot in places. I haven't seen that happen before or since. I went back up there in Jan 77- mid Feb 77 for more training and it sure wasn't any warmer LOL.
I grew up in MN. and in the days when there was a dress code.
The girls could wear slacks to school, under their dresses, if it was zero or colder. We had to remove the slacks in the rest-room before class.
I walked to school each day. We had no school bus but could take the city bus for 10 cents each way. In grade school we went home for lunch if we lived less than a mile. If it was zero or more we could bring a bag lunch. Hot lunches were not served at school back then until you got to junior high.
I don’t recall any of us minding these rules. We had a good time on our walks. We actually felt special to get to wear our slacks at all!
Yep. I don’t do FB, but my brother says there was a ton of people hollering until they cancelled school and saying their kids weren’t going regardless, blah blah blah. Of course, kids were out all over yesterday in the weather, but we couldn’t have them sitting in school for some reason.
In contrast, during the January 1999 blizzard, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley--remembering that 1979 experience--pre-positioned snow-fighting equipment all over Chicago before the storm hit. Though the 1999 storm dumped a huge amount of snow, because of this change, they were able to clear out all the snow in around seven days.
Wind chills here in central NY State are -20 because of the high winds. I grew up in Rochester, NY, and well remember having to walk to school in this kind of weather, and you're right...they never cancelled school because of the weather. The walk was over a mile one way. No school buses back then. I'd put slacks on under my skirt or dress and bundle up for the long walk. My Dad worked on the railroad and was out in this weather all day working on the tracks. And years later, the job I retired from required me to be out in all kinds of weather.
California sucks politically, but I am glad to see 79 today.
I don’t know what we would do with 20 degrees or less in the regular areas because the homes and heating were IMO mostly not made to buy you that much heating.
The heater would be going 24-7 if we hit even 30 outside and we had a setting of 70 inside. That is probably because we don’t have the big water heaters throughout or the brick homes like I had in NY.
Most CA homes have walls with zero insulation; just stucco, beams empty air then lath and plaster.