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February 5, 2008 at 9:28 AM

Yes, it's cold, but it's necessary. To weed out the sick and the weak.

From Sydney Menees
Posted on February 5, 2008 at 12:11 PM

I would be one of the first, then. I've been sick the last four days!

From Tom Holzman
Posted on February 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM

Stay warm! Do not do anything foolish and freeze to death.

From Jim W. Miller
Posted on February 5, 2008 at 2:20 PM

70 here, but raining so we can't lay out and tan. I was in -20 once. I spent much time outside just to experience it. It was like the air starts to freeze your lungs and you can't breathe.

From Jim W. Miller
Posted on February 5, 2008 at 2:24 PM

P,S, somebody told me it was -40 in Minnesota last week.

From Laurie Niles
Posted on February 5, 2008 at 2:47 PM

And the BUGS. They all live forever here in So Cal.

From Jim W. Miller
Posted on February 5, 2008 at 10:19 PM

A surprising thing about Sunnyvale, Ca. was there were no bugs. Pretty much warm year-round there too. Somebody told me that you don't see bugs on windshields there. Then I started looking for them everywhere. I couldn't find any. I looked under rocks. Under my house. In my hair. Nothing.

From Emily Grossman
Posted on February 5, 2008 at 10:39 PM

I couldn't find anything below -28 in Minnesota, at International Falls on January 19th. Your friend must have thrown in the wind chill for a more dramatic effect. Generally, though, Minnesota had a colder January than Soldotna. Being coastal, we aren't that cold. Why just the other day, I was hiking Skyline in a bikini. The snow gives you a great tan.

From Neil Cameron
Posted on February 6, 2008 at 12:12 AM

Pics!

Neil

From Jasmine Reese
Posted on February 6, 2008 at 3:53 AM

I have been in -26. Pretty fun. I like spilling my hot chocolate and watching it freeze in two seconds time.

A girl in my school lives up near Crane School of Music. She said it was -53 once. She walked outside for 5 minutes, got hypothermia, and had to be driven to the hospital.

From Jim W. Miller
Posted on February 6, 2008 at 4:07 AM

That reminds me, one symptom of hypothermia is removing clothing. Neil may get his wish.

From Tom Holzman
Posted on February 6, 2008 at 2:07 PM

During WWII, my father, who was in the US Army Air Corps, was stationed in the Ukraine and spent part of the winter sleeping in a tent. I think it got down as far as -30. He had awful memories of the cold and could never stand really cold weather after that.

From Antonello Lofù
Posted on February 7, 2008 at 11:34 PM

Will you do the end of the guy in the last Sean Penn's movie?

Will you eat rotten meat with worms and flies on?

will you live in a bus and...

don't eat strange berries..

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