So, I was in Chicago a week or so ago. The temperature was -21 Fahrenheit, -31 if you factored in the wind chill.
To put it in practical terms, the half frozen river was releasing steam because it was warmer than the air. I walked the 6 blocks to my hotel with a jumper, jacket, overcoat, scarf, gloves, beanie, boots and at least 3 hits of whisky. I couldn't feel my legs by the time I got to the hotel. I had to go to the bar for another 3 emergency shots of whisky to stave off hypothermia. How the hell Grizzly Adams managed to survive I will never know...
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You sound underdressed to me, and we haven't gotten below -4F as far as I know! How much long underwear did you have on, and was it fleece, and how many pairs of thick socks were you wearing?
We've been withing spitting distance of melting temperature this week.
When you texted and said it was -30, I thought you were talking in a scale that everyone uses. I thought it was actually 30 below freezing!
dude -21ºF is -30ºC
snow snow snow, snow snow snow
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