Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Dannyalcatraz]

Respect. (From someone who lived through the Blizzard of '78. In my lifetime, we've never gone below -20 here.)

As bad as I had it, I was stunned watching news of Canadians suffering temps too low for their thermometers to register. They were talking about vehicles cracking their engines even though they were using bloc heaters.

Up to that point, I thought even AVERAGE Canadians had the same kind of cold-weather equipment as arctic researchers.

Nope. Polar cold is a whole other category.

 

[Scribe]

-80degF

Yes! The only temperatures at which my school was actually closed growing up, my Father still had to go and open the doors, on a bike because the car couldnt run, because if some parent mistakenly brought their kid to school somehow, they needed to get in or die.

I only remember it happening once though.

 

[payn]

Blizzard you say? @payn you want to tell them about the Halloween Blizzard of '91?

Halloween '91. Trick or treater's tears for as far as you could see.

 

[Ryujin]

Yes! The only temperatures at which my school was actually closed growing up, my Father still had to go and open the doors, on a bike because the car couldnt run, because if some parent mistakenly brought their kid to school somehow, they needed to get in or die.

I only remember it happening once though.

I started working at the uni in December of '98. January of '99 was when we had the massive snowstorms that had Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman call in the army (and the rest of Canada won't let us forget it). I was still probationary and got to work EARLY every day through that, as I didn't want to lose the good job I'd just gotten. The uni's administration, at the time, was proud of being the last in the area to close, during bad weather. They wouldn't announce until 10:00am, at which point I'd been on campus for 3 hours. By that point the trains would no longer be running and they'd switch to busses. I was leaving a little after 10:00am and not getting home until some time after 4:00pm.