There's Cold and Then There's Cold

It got a little cold here today in Minnesota (and everywhere in the northern midwest).  I got a screenshot of the weather app on my phone to prove it.  It's from when I woke up to make sure the cars started for work.  
 

It was so cold, that they cancelled school for the entire state on Friday for Monday.  Halfway through the day, school was once again cancelled for Tuesday.  The wind is just so cold and cuts through the layers of clothes no matter how many you are wearing.  Seriously.  I went out and started my car just to see if it would start.  I had on long johns (top and bottom), jeans, wool socks, shirt, hooded sweatshirt, wool coat, hat, scarf, gloves, Sorel boots.  You know, the norm.  And I could still feel it.  

I was suppose to go to work at 6:00 this morning, but got a call not to come in until 9:00.  It was one degree warmer.  It made no difference.  Stores were closing early all over the place just to make sure that their employees got home before it got too cold for the evening commute.  My store closed at 5:00.  Safe to say, it was not a busy day. 

As much as I am complaining about it, I liked it.  I have never felt that kind of cold.  It wasn't so much cold as it was pain.  Frostbite apparently sets in within five minutes of exposure, so this weather is no laughing matter, but it was cool to know what it feels like when it is fifty degrees below zero.  Scary stuff.  But to say that you voluntarily went out in negative fifty degree weather is something to be proud of.  I guess.  If you like that stuff.  Like I do.  

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