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Title: Icebox of the nation at 40 below zero(regular temp)
Post by: jtyangel on February 12, 2008, 09:26:28 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080212/ap_on_re_us/cold_weather

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MINNEAPOLIS - It lived up to its name: The temperature in International Falls fell to 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation."
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It was so cold that resident Nick McDougall couldn't get his car trunk to close after he got out his charger to kick-start his dead battery. By late morning, the temperature had risen all the way to 18 — below zero.

"This is about as cold as it gets, this is bad. There's no wind — it's just cold," said McDougall, 48, a worker at The Fisherman, a convenience store and gas station in the town on the Canadian border. "People just don't go out, unless you have to go to work."

Residents of the area use electric engine block heaters to keep their cars from freezing.

global warming... :ohnoes:

Title: Re: Icebox of the nation at 40 below zero(regular temp)
Post by: Lord Undies on February 12, 2008, 09:41:46 AM

I guess it takes guts to live there.  How many old people, women, and minorities have died? 

Title: Re: Icebox of the nation at 40 below zero(regular temp)
Post by: NHSparky on February 12, 2008, 11:29:27 AM

Al Gore, you have a new home ready for you!