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To: flaglady47

Bunch of wimps, when I went to grade school in Arlington
Heights we walked all the time, sometimes the snow
would be piled up on either side of the side walk to
where it looked like walking down a white hall way.
I remember having our Halloween parade around the play
ground in snow 3” deep.

Course things were different in “those” days.


14 posted on 01/05/2014 2:15:37 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Three inches of snow for Halloween?


22 posted on 01/05/2014 2:31:15 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: tet68
Yeah, I remember the blizzard of '67 and again in '78. I walked to school too. Fortunately for you and I we lived in much safer areas than Chicago back then and walking was no big deal, other than having to deal with the snow.

This is a different time and it's Chicago with the high murder rate, kids getting shot at, yadda, yadda, yadda.

31 posted on 01/05/2014 2:48:03 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: tet68

Im sure in -20 wind chill, right?

I walked to school in some rough weather here in Michigan. I would not let my kids out in this cold just to prove some point.


32 posted on 01/05/2014 2:48:18 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: tet68
BTW, my employer (based in downtown Chicago) told us all today via email and broadcsast phone calls to work from home on Monday and perhaps Tuesday.

I'm frankly glad I don't have to battle the -15 temperatures tomorrow getting to work and worrying if my global warming causing, gas guzzling SUV is going to start so I can get home at the end of the day.

And here I spent all day yesterday in my garage changing out the batteries (yes, plural) cleaning my fuel injection system and checking the fluids, belts and hoses.......

36 posted on 01/05/2014 2:51:52 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: tet68
I don't think my elementary school EVER held classes when it was snowing.

Of course, in Guantanamo Bay, we never had any. Hurricanes, sure. But no snow or ice.

54 posted on 01/05/2014 3:49:55 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: tet68

“Bunch of wimps, when I went to grade school in Arlington
Heights we walked all the time, sometimes the snow
would be piled up on either side of the side walk”

It isn’t the snow, Mr. Macho. It’s the icy cold of -15 degrees as the high (meaning even colder in the morning) on Monday, along with 22 mph winds, making the wind chill factor even much worse. Use your head, not your testosterone.


60 posted on 01/05/2014 6:01:40 PM PST by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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