They closed the area schools for the second day in a row. It was minus 9 when I went out to shovel the walk and get the paper yesterday. Today it was minus 18 when I went out to get the paper (the sidewalk can wait).
The funny thing is I grew up in Montana in a town of about 10,000 a few miles from the Canadian border and I don't ever remember their ever closing the schools. I concede that was a few years ago and my memory isn't the same but walking to school in the bitter cold was a way of life. There weren't car pools as most people were lucky to have one car let alone two. We just dressed for it. The girls wore dresses but could wear snow pants underneath. To top it off the nuns made us line up outside the school and march in by grade before school, recesses, and lunch. There wasn't any cafeteria and most of us walked home for lunch. A student could bring his/her lunch but still got tossed out to line up and march in with his/her class.

How would you like to be a Packer or Steeler fan and trying to get to frigid Dallas for the Super Bowl. Chicago and most of Ohio are shut down and Dallas is no picnic when the fan gets there.