A lot of the country is bracing for snow and/or freezing rain. Not me. I'm mentally preparing myself ready for bitter cold. Over the course of the next week, it's supposed to get below zero every day except for one, and on one of those days, the high temp will be below zero. It's supposed to get so cold that the news is warning about the possibility of exploding trees. I will clarify that we're a little bit south of that $h!+, but still... once we hit this time of year, I have a hard time getting warm at all. My hands and feet are virtually always cold.
Now that I've got the headline-grabbing sound bites out of the way, I should clarify that I really don't notice much of a difference between zero and -20. Once the thermometer dips that low, it's all kind of the same... just cold.
I'll leave with a personal anecdote about the cold. Back in the 90's I moved from the northern part of my state to the southern part. There was a blizzard the weekend I was scheduled to move. It was 50 below without the wind chill, and 90 below with it. It was so cold that weekend that the antifreeze in one of my cars froze. On top of that, we got a ton of snow. Fortunately, I was able to leave the car behind for a week. When I went back, it started right up, no damage. The body sucked on that car, but that engine was unstoppable.
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