@hacks4pancakes ice skating?

@hacks4pancakes that's what I'm saying for Friday down here in St Louis.

@hacks4pancakes But at least on the way back you had liquor!

@hacks4pancakes Try minus -36C all week up here in SK, Canada 🥶 🤣

@hacks4pancakes I moved to Chicago the weekend of the polar vortex. Having to unload a uhaul in -50 weather was not fun! I love this city but I’m going to be a home body for the next month or two.

@hacks4pancakes I did literally walk to school in -25F once. I grew up in the Colorado mountains. They should have closed school that day due to the numerous dead batteries. I think about 40% of the school showed up.

@hacks4pancakes we had to make our own liquor at a still that was 32 miles away uphill both ways. Plus bears.

@hacks4pancakes Ah, but what’s the wind chill? They’re talking wind chill of -30F/-34C in Indy.

I remember having to walk to and from school in fall winter with pouring rain and arriving soaked to and from school. I think it might help build character 🤷‍♂️

@hacks4pancakes Its all fun and games until your nostrils freeze together

@hacks4pancakes Barefoot too

@hacks4pancakes I remember getting frostbite once.
Iirc it was in early elementary school and it was cold enough to cancel recess in northern MN.
Good thing I had intact shoes that year.

@hacks4pancakes Wasn't that in a foot of snow?

@hacks4pancakes At least the alcohol didn’t freeze.

@hacks4pancakes ha and can you believe they have heaters on the ‘L’ platforms? In my day you huddled for warmth with 5 random strangers and just hoped none of them was a Sox fan.

@hacks4pancakes with shoes that have holes in them, and no socks because you had to share them with your siblings...

@hacks4pancakes The walk back was kind of a haze, but that was the point.

@hacks4pancakes with the wind blowing from in front of you and from behind all at once 😁

@hacks4pancakes Heck, we're only supposed to get down into the teens here in mid-Michigan this week. Thanks, lake effect!

@hacks4pancakes oh, that's Saturday night. Here, at least. here, at least. The real cold is supposed to hit on Saturday.

@hacks4pancakes Downtown was a bit chilly yesterday evening.

@hacks4pancakes Or stand on the El platform at 6am freezing your ass off, waiting to commute to the Loop

@hacks4pancakes come on down to St. Louis, we’re expecting wind chills of -30 later in the week

@hacks4pancakes Chicago late 1970s, radio announcer: "And the high for today is -13F".

@hacks4pancakes I was asked to apply for a job at Northwestern, way back when. But I’d been up there in winter and felt the Polar winds coming off the Lake. I stayed out here on the Prairie, where the icy winds have to get past the Dakotas first.

@hacks4pancakes In 3 feet of snow

@hacks4pancakes You're welcome to join us lol

@hacks4pancakes Malört is a great numbing agent it seems 😂

@hacks4pancakes When I was in high school, my family moved to the Chicago area on a day when it was -20F. It wasn't a huge shock since we were moving from Michigan, but still felt symbolic. Many years later, I now live in Los Angeles...

@hacks4pancakes the high here in mn is -1 😱🥶