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Maine

Irish_Dem

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7. We had that in the midwest last month.

Reply to jpak (Reply #5)

Fri Feb 3, 2023, 03:29 PM

Feb 2023

50 mph wind gusts and 35 below zero windchill.
It was cold.
We had snow and ice too.
Looked like Antartica outside my window.

I just got my heating bill for that period of time.
Almost double my normal heating bill.
Yikes.

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Boy it's fuckin cold out [View all] jpak Feb 2023 OP

When people in Maine say it's cold, it must be really cold. :( Irish_Dem Feb 2023 #1

A lot of schools closed because of the cold jpak Feb 2023 #5

We had that in the midwest last month. Irish_Dem Feb 2023 #7

Be careful. The cold with high wind is a killer. Irish_Dem Feb 2023 #9

I worked for years in the Arctic and Antarctic jpak Feb 2023 #10

Well how can you complain? You are now in a tropical paradise. Irish_Dem Feb 2023 #11

This thread made me colder so I just put on another pair of wool socks. Irish_Dem Feb 2023 #13

Gonna get colder! Easterncedar Feb 2023 #2

Yup. peacefreak2.0 Feb 2023 #3

Would you care to elaborate, or have you frozen to death already? mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 #4

Nope, but I was out of rum and potato chips jpak Feb 2023 #6

(Laughing) Yeah, well that constitutes an emergency, as much as anything. mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 #8

I tried to buy Abigail_Adams Feb 2023 #14

-11 now in my town. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2023 #12