Winter sucks

[DrReality]

have any of you lived where it got REALLY COLD in the winter. I grew up in Ill and one winter it got down to zero and I had anold 64 Chevy. To get that thing to start in the morning I put a heat lamp under the hood and covered it with blankets. Sucker did not want to start but it fired up. That is too cold for man nor beast. That's why I love the South. It may get cold for a night or two but it is gone.

[gsuteke]

I rent a house in Sea Pines (Hilton Head, SC) for two weeks a Summer from a guy that lives in Chicago. We've become friends over the years, he stays in a spare room at our house each year during the Masters.

I give him a hard time about "moving where the heat is."

Well right now in Chicago he tells me it is about 0 degrees outside. I just walked outside on my patio in Augusta, GA wearing khakis and a polo shirt without socks. the concrete was a little cold (I sat down for a minute and enjoyed the 25 degree weather) but it was tolerable.

Once again - move where the heat is!

I just spent a week in Southern California. I don't understand why I'm still living in Georgia, let alone the Northern United States!!!!!!!!

[dlpin]

I lived for a year in rural michigan. Winter was so depressing. Some saturdays I wouldnt even go out to pick up the mail just so I wouldnt have to dress up, put on the winter boots, hat, gloves, etc just to walk the 20 yards outside to the mailbox. If I remember correctly, the first time it got above freezing after new years (this was 95-96) was january 21st, or something like that. Not only that, but the weather was wild too. I was in High School, and one day in march I got up and it was 60 degrees outside, so I decided to just wear a t-shirt to school. By the time I got out, it was 20 degrees and snowing so bad you couldnt see more than 10 feet in front of you.

The worst day was this day in december, -27 degrees, with a -47 wind chill.

I remember the day I decided I would never live in Michigan again. It was the day I came back from spring break. I had spent a week in Southern TN, right by the AL-MS-TN border and the weather was beautiful, spring was in full bloom, flowers and green everywhere. Then we drove home to Michigan and everything was still gray and dead.

[DrReality]

I lived in Lake Tahoe for two years and we got some pretty tough weather, but the good thing about it was you could at least snow ski. That made it all worth while . . . . . most of the time.

[Swish]

Man when I woke up this morning (outside Nashville) my atomic clock read "0". Thats crazy for here, and thats without the wind chill.

[crimedog]

I lived in Montreal for 4 years, I used to walk to McGill where I was in school from my apartment which was about 25 minutes. Some days it would get down to -40, which is where F and C intersect... you'd get to class and even with a hat and scarf you'd have trouble saying words because the elasticity in your cheeks was gone.

Now I live in NYC which isn't as bad, although today its allegedly -1F ("feels like -15") which kind of blows.

We could see those people trying to get out of the plane upriver out of the window of our office, that would be dangerously cold.