DougS Loc: Central Arkansas

-35 F crossing the Alaskan border middle of January, 2017. Had to stop and get gas at Tok, with a fairly strong wind. The week before it was -50F. It was 72° when we left Arkansas.

HRPufnstuf

17F. Yeah, I know that doesn't seem that cold, but I was riding a Harley-Davidson.
But that's why God made cows. Just put on more leather.

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

-40f no wind in Gunnison Colo. My dad and I had to dismantle a wrecked Luscomb Silvair and load it on a flatbed trailer to rebuild it that summer.

DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA

-18 degrees F in US Army class A uniform (no ear muffs)

llamb Loc: Northeast Ohio

It was so cold this morning, I put a pot of boiling water outside and it froze so fast that the ice was still hot.

~Lee

robertcbyrd Loc: 28754

-35°F at Bentley Creek, PA circa 1969. It was very still out. My dad had wrapped his car engine in an electric blanket and it was the only car in the neighborhood that would start that morning.

har1ey4 Loc: Long Island, New York

Ft Richardson Alaska. We had to do Cold Weather Indoctrination. We had to sleep outside for 3 days and we had no tents we only had lean-tos. We weren’t allowed to build any fires. The actual temp was -22. The arctic gear we were given really performed quite well. The white bunny boots we wore were good to -65 so your feet were nice and toasty.

FrumCA

Same as you...skiing in Banff, Canada in the early 2000's. There wasn't a face mask or scarf available anywhere in town. We were resorting to trying to tie handkerchiefs and/or T-shirt around our necks and faces.

Canisdirus

Probably when I visited my sister after the birth of her first child...she lived outside of Chicago...went to -teens.
I told her...never again.
Next time I visited in July...it hit 113.

That trip I told her...let me know when you want to visit me...I'm probably not coming back to this hell.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Around -40F (C), Fairbanks Alaska, February 1968 (work)
Around -22F, MA (home [outside])

When I was young, I preferred cold temperatures because my metabolism was pretty strong and kept me warm. As I age I get more sensitive to the cold. My working temperature used to be 55-65F. Now it's 70-80F. When my wife's mother used to visit she used an electric blanket on high, even in the summer. I haven't gotten to that point yet, but I used to turn the blanket on high an hour before going to bed, then when I got into the bed I turned it off. Now I leave it on. My decreased metabolism has also affected the amount that I can eat in a meal. I used to be able to eat 16oz of steak. Now 4oz is usually enough. And I still gain weight.

mr spock Loc: Fairfield CT

Forgive me for correcting you but it's no longer "Global Warming". That narrative didn't turn our very well so they changed the term to "Climate Change"
They're now covered no matter how the temperature goes

cyclespeed Loc: Calgary, Alberta Canada

In 1968 in Edmonton Alberta we set a record and received a similar certificate which I can not readily put my hands on today since it is in the garage attic and I'm not going there today at -35 C.
The difference is it reads 40 days and 40 nights below 40 degrees.
As some of you know -40 is the same frigid cold in both F and C.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

You guys are all trying to one up each other. You should have seen the last 9 years of my marriage. Talk about cold! Although once in a while the cold spell would be broken by about 3 days of white hot rage.

On the serious side, I didn’t know and initially she didn’t know that the bi-polar was taking over. Three kids and after each kid was born her condition took a huge step down. The depression would be so bad that other than going to the bathroom, she’d be bedridden for 3 days at a time. She missed so much work that she finally lost her job.

The depression was interspersed with periods of mania, spending money we didn’t have, restlessness, fits of rage and later infidelity. Besides working in town and farming, I had a full time job at home cooking meals, washing clothes, cleaning house and raising the kids because she was either too depressed, too manic or hospitalized (6 times). From what my now adult kids tell me, I was fairly successful at keeping them unaware of what all was going on.

When you see the bipolar medicine commercials on television, just know that they are true or even underplaying the seriousness. People without experience think clinical depression is the same as having the blues or just a down day. They think you just make yourself get up and go to work. Not even close. My ex made the last 9 years of our marriage a living hell but I hold no animosity. I wouldn’t wish bipolar on even my worst enemy.

JeffL Loc: New Jersey

My younger daughter is bipolar. When manic she bought a bedroom set that wouldn’t even fit into her bedroom. She bought a very expensive diamond ring she couldn’t afford. When depressed, has attempted suicide. Bipolar is no joke.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

-35F degrees, Mankato, Minnesota, bright sunny day, 1963, no windshield factor.