School has been cancelled for 3 days. Bold north? NOT.

philtickelson wrote:

Awesome, now do one about car seats!!

This might be the best thing I have ever seen on this site! A+

Also. Guys this is really bad. Like really really bad.

In Wisconsin, some beer trucks won’t deliver because it’s too cold

I find it funny, the tough old boys, and the up north tough birds, etc etc.

The fact of the matter is, there hasn’t been this kind of cold in any of our lifetimes, period. This is record cold people, it doesn’t happen often at all!!

Think what you want -60 below windchills can frostbite, hurt, whatever.

It’s dumb to try and have school when it’s like this, just is.

Well, the furnace is back online. Only 15 hours without heat. Wind chills only got down to -42 last night, so the gas fireplace saved the day.
Sitting at -22 temp and -48 wind chill right now, headed down to -33 and -61 tomorrow morning. Those numbers are not anything I want my son driving to school in. And the -35 forecast for 8am Thursday morning isn’t either.
These are not every year temps… missing 2 or 3 days of school is not a big deal. Heck I’ve taken my son out of school th last 2 years to go pheasant hunting in North Dakota for the week of MEA, calling him in sick those first 3 days of the week. I’m thinking he will be just fine chilling for 3 days.
Being “northern tough” has nothing to do about it, being smart is the prudent thing to do in weather like this.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

And Riverruns….thanks for getting that rural mail delivered even in the snow and the cold!

Well I didn’t freeze off my arm today. Couldn’t do that, how would I drive?

Don’t look for your mail tomorrow either. It won’t be in your boxes. That’s the rumor floating around.

-23 the fish are biting while in pajamas

Generator exhaust is warming the propane tank…..going to need that tonight.

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But, they had pajamas on all day…..

Pailofperch wrote:

But, they had pajamas on all day…..

Hey…..they had bibs and jackets on until the shack warmed up

Does that count???

B-man wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Pailofperch wrote:</div>
But, they had pajamas on all day…..

Hey…..they had bibs and jackets on until the shack warmed up

Does that count???

With jami’s underneath???

Don’t judge

I let them dress themselves

They saw Dad geared up in bibs and boots and did the same.

(Toss ’em in the fire as my Grandpa would say)

I remember riding the school bus in 65,66,67 .Lived out in the country, the Oshkosh graders plowing snow ,so slow. Snow banks 10 feet high , and freaking cold we had no indoor plumbing so it was the unheated outhouse , collect the eggs from the chicken coop , pump water every day and haul in fire wood before my brother and me went to school. We would wait inside till the bus would come and make a mad dash out the door . Sometimes the driver would keep on going if you were not standing by the side of the road The coldest i remember was 40 below . Rarely did school shut down , do remember coming home early a time or two. Was out side today for awhile with heavy winter gear and Balaclava , Carhartt Extreme Bibs , Extreme Jacket , it did not take long in the wind at only 12 below i was toast. Wonder how we did it with the crappy clothing we had back then ! I’m ready for spring

We played basketball at noon in that weather the ball wouldn’t bounce so you had to pass the ball up the floor to advance it, great day for us non dribblers.

Pig-hunter wrote:

I find it funny, the tough old boys, and the up north tough birds, etc etc.

The fact of the matter is, there hasn’t been this kind of cold in any of our lifetimes, period. This is record cold people, it doesn’t happen often at all!!

Think what you want -60 below windchills can frostbite, hurt, whatever.

It’s dumb to try and have school when it’s like this, just is.

I will fly the BS flag on that statistic. Feb 2nd, 1996 was the lowest ever recorded temp in MN. -60 was the official actual temp in Tower MN. In Chisholm, we had -53 that morning.

This morning, we have -35 with a -59 windchill. Dang cold, but not the coldest we’ve ever seen – not even close.

But I definitely agree with the idea of closing the schools!

mike mulhern wrote:

great day for us non dribblers.