[dutchess]

If You Add the Chill Factor It Was -70, and the high -50 degrees.

Yikes....no more complaining about the cold here. That's neat that you kept those articles!

[LadyX]

Laughing here, because in both Rapid City, South Dakota and in Fairbanks, school was never canceled because of weather - even in blizzards or ice fog, where visibility is just a few feet ahead of you.

Furthermore, schools in both places kept their budgets low by not having cafeterias in them!
They either walked home for lunch (as mine did) or if bused, brought their lunch with them.

In Fairbanks, the day the wind chill factor was 70 below zero, my two boys walked to school, home for lunch and back home after school was out for the day, living nearby.

The Rules were that only if it reached below - 35 could you bring your lunch - or did not have to go outside for recess.

Hard to imagine, and there was usually in winter the six feet of snow I've referred to before on the ground, except for worn paths or plowed streets.

It was a memorable experience!