Geez, I bet there would be a line of helpful guys willing to give you a nice warm hug...
Twelve degrees in Texas and 66 here. Man is that weird, but more to come:
Unbelievable cold in the Midwest
At this point, even zero degrees sounds balmy.
The afternoon "high" temperatures in parts of the Midwest won't even warm up to zero on Monday, the National Weather Service said.
Throw in some fierce winds, and you get winds chills like 55-below-zero in Duluth, Minnesota; 34-below-zero in Chicago; and 24-below-zero in St. Louis.
Twenty years ago on business I was in downtown Chicago during the winter. I forgot something and tried to take a walk to a drug store two blocks away. I turned the wrong way and honestly thought I was going to freeze to death before I got back to the hotel. That wind just howled down the streets.
And at thirty four below zero? I never would have made it.
My home is one hundred percent electric. Electric emergency heat on the heat pump, which is the latest high efficiency type. I wonder how warm I'd be if the temp dropped to fifteen below here? The problem in this severe cold is people turn on anything they can find to get warm. And their homes burn down because of it.
Be careful with those space heaters folks.
