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Today was the kind of day where, if you stay outside long enough, your vitreous humor will freeze totally solid and you can take a fork to your eyeballs without harming them. Seriously.

But now I am warm.

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Wher do you *live?* :)

Chicago. We specialize in colorful and vivid descriptions of temperatures that are really only a little bit subzero. :D

In Seattle we reserve that kind of description for rain. :) Of course, a Chicago winter would kill most of the people who live here - if they didn't kill each other skidding around on the roads, first.

I hear you - where I grew up (mountains, VA) the big problem was ice storms, on roads that were literally "unsafe at any speed." Here at least people mostly know how to drive: slow. No less aggressive than usual, just more slowly so. ;)

I miss real snow. I lived in Lebanon, outside of St Louis when I went to jr high. Drifts up to the house and giant icicles...

It's a balmy 30 degree F here. But it's been in the 20's for two solid weeks. And it's been doing the freezing rain/ sleet/ snow/ stuff thing today and supposedly tomorrow too. Joys.

Ugggh. YOu know, the freezing rain/ice is worse, IMO.

We should be seeing 30-something again this weekend. It's been a while!

30 feels like a heat wave compared to 20. The ground is like rock. Been feeding the birds, and yesterday morning I watched a gorgeous kestrel falcon grab a sparrow from the feeder and feed herself right in front of my window. Can't blame her, although the little birds were bummed.

Every day, I am glad for many reasons to no longer live in Chicago. That's often one of them -- Buffalo seemed mild while I was up there for work over the fall.

Well, we miss you, but we know better than to try to persuade you to come back. :)

Amen to that. I lived in Great Lakes, IL for two years when I was young. Windchill of -40. That was pretty unforgettable.

It is offensively stinking hot here. There must be some alchemy by which we can average our eyeball temperature.

I'm willing to try equalizing even with the risk of destroying the universe, but I will NOT trade: given the choice of two such nasties I much prefer the cold. :)

*Brrr* Living only a short distance from you, I have nothing whatsoever to add to your statement. But I'm posting this anyway XD

Brrrr. You probably have it even worse than we do...the lake moderates us a little.

Ooh, I sympathize. (And can relate, being a Montrealer and all).

Oh, I bet you can relate!

Feel the burn. Builds character.

*tries to wrap her brain around the imagery*

*fails*

Heh. It's a special feeling, let me tell you. Also when your ears and nose start feeling crunchy because the cartilage has stiffened.

I suppose it's silly of me, but just once, I'd like to feel what "serious cold" is like. The coldest temperatures I've ever felt were, oh, I don't know, 20 degrees fahrenheit?

Also, great icon!

Oh boy! Come on up and visit! You'll love it! ;)

Thanks, it's pretty, isn't it.

thesuthernangel made a bunch of great animated snow/Narnia icons. Always winter, never Christmas!

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