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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
With all due respect, people who have lived in deep south all their lives have no concept of what "cold" is.
Back in my university days the town where I went to school was located on the shore of a large lake in northern Minnesota. Beautiful spot. I worked weekends at a gas station a couple of blocks away on the same lakeshore to help pay the bills. One January morning (about 20 or so below zero) a car with Mississippi license plates pulled in for gas. In the course of my providing service the driver asked me what all those little houses were out there on that big field. I replied that it was a lake, not a field, and that those "houses" belonged to fishermen who cut holes in the ice once in the house to fish. The guy actually got angry, and accused me of pulling his leg. There were CARS out there on that field and cars can't drive on ice or they'd fall through! He thought that the little houses were the town's "sanitary"!
True story.
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I spent 5 and a bit of years in the Twin Cities area and was often too hot as the U of MN often had the heat way up. But getting there was another matter. And I would often be wearing a closet of clothes.