[TChris]

I tell people they have no idea what COLD is until they've been out in -35 degree temperatures on the Canadian prairies, with a stiff wind blowing as well.

Here in Wyoming, I once stood in -40°F to wait for the school bus. It didn't get above 0° for two weeks.

Once it's less than about -10°F, the cold just hurts more. I don't even register it as "colder", only more painful.

[angcat]

Here in Wyoming, I once stood in -40°F to wait for the school bus. It didn’t get above 0° for two weeks.

I would probably eat myself to death if I had to live through that.

[Alberta's Child]

I thought I had it bad in western Canada until the day I was driving across northern Ontario one October a few years back. I stopped for gas in the small town of White River, Ontario (north of Lake Superior), and I commented to the guy working there about how mild it was so late in the year (it was in the 50s, if I remember -- very warm for late October up there).

"Yeah, it's got us all concerned up here," he said, "The last time it was this warm so late in the fall we had one of the worst winters anyone can remember."

"Lots of snow?" I asked.

"Hardly any at all," he said, "but there was a four-week stretch from late January through late February where the HIGH temperature every day was no warmer than -30."

The White River itself froze to the bottom that year, and when the spring thaw came every farm and home down the river was inundated with rocks, trees, soil, and everything else that got chewed up by the ice and carried downstream.

Holy sh!t. LOL.