Its 20 degrees in VA.
Its so cold my local pet shop is now selling penguins.
Starbucks is now offering coffee on a stick = Coffeesicles!
oh hell you were not even in the nicest part of the state......west of the divide is the nicest
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I'm a teacher, and it always amazes me how many high school students will show up in shorts and no jacket on days like this - never preparing for a car or bus to break down. We are already running two-hours late on Tuesday due to the below zero temps.
To be honest, I'd rather have -10 degrees and no wind than 10 degrees with wind. The wind goes right to the bones and makes it feel a lot worse. I've been living in Minnesota all my life and the coldest temperature I've ever experienced was -39 degrees. The governor cancelled schools state-wide that day. I had my Ford F-150 (inline 6-cylinder 300) with a block heater plugged in all night long and it fired right up in the morning!Wind chill is such a stupid thing news agencies do nowadays. As if -16° wasn't already cold enough, they got to tell you the wind chill, which only affects you if you're going outside without protective gear on.
Meteorologist: "It's -16° outside, BUT it FEELS LIKE -40°!!!"
Guy1: "So how cold is it outside then?"
Meteorologist: "Well it's -16° outside, but if you were to go outside without protective gear on, and the wind were to blow in your direction, with moving airs heat wicking properties, it would feel like it's -40°."
Guy1: "My neighbor is fat as ****, weighing in well above 400 lb, if he goes outside is it going to feel like -40° with all that blubber on him?"
Meteorologist: "Well it differentiates between individuals. Person to person, wind chills will feel different depending on a number of factors."
Guy1: "Then why the fuck would you mention it?!?"
Meteorologist: "SENSATIONALISM! Stupid Americans won't watch our program if we don't produce ridiculous numbers! If the weather isn't giving mind bending, abnormal temperatures, people stop watching!"
Guy1:
Think of it this way: There is no bad weather, only the wrong clothing.
Yep. Grade school was exactly 1 mile from the house; high school, almost two miles. I took the bus in the younger grades, and then had a compulsory pivot to my 10-speed bicycle and/or the Shoe Leather Express. All year, all weather.
As someone who wears flip flops 99% of the time and got unexpectedly caught up in a West Texas snow storm recently, I would have to agree. Flip flops in the snow was the wrong choice.Think of it this way: There is no bad weather, only the wrong clothing.
Its 20 degrees in VA.
Its so cold my local pet shop is now selling penguins.
Starbucks is now offering coffee on a stick = Coffeesicles!
Its 20 degrees in VA.
Its so cold my local pet shop is now selling penguins.
Starbucks is now offering coffee on a stick = Coffeesicles!
