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57 sats \ 11 replies \ @jasonb 10 Jan \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
Whereish are you, if you don’t mind sharing? We definitely got some serious snow in my neck of the woods. The problem where I am right now is that the schools closed because it was too “cold” and then opened the next day, which was much colder as they realized they’d just never have school again at this rate.
I'm in Cookeville. We're just starting to get it.
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I'm in the middle-ish part of the country. It got pretty cold after it snowed, but the snow was the excuse for closing school and not collecting trash/recycling.
It seems so ridiculous to me, because I grew up in the cold and snowy north. If there was less than a foot of snow, no way anything was closing.
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Where we lived it sometimes got to -40 degrees. I was walking to work everyday. My wife thought I was crazy because the clothes I wore were not really fit for those temperatures. I found that if I kept up a brisk walk, even through fairly deep snow, I could keep warm for the length of the walk. My co-workers also thought I was out in left field.
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Yeah, my first university job was somewhere similarly cold and I also walked a little over a mile to work everyday.
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Yes, it was a nice stroll. I never once got cold doing that. I did get cold if I stopped and stood around, though.
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I got plenty cold, but I wasn't about to pay for a parking pass that would still leave me walking half a mile.
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This sounds like the university I went to. I wound up taking the bus, a special express bus to within about a quarter of a mile from my first class. The walk there was brisk, too. I must say that I saved a lot of money by not driving and parking. The university had a special deal on “all you can ride for a month” bus passes.