[Magdalen] ATTN The Scotts !!!

[Scott Knitter]

BTW, they're saying five minutes to frostbite once the wind-chill warning
goes into effect at 6 p.m. CST today, and throughout tomorrow. That means
it's even dangerous to go to the local market on foot without covering
every bit of skin. Goggles would be good. Glad I won't need to make that
short trip.

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:35 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Right...One of the joys of full-time telework (and there are many) is the
> ability to work even when somewhat ill or when snowed in, as long as the
> data pipes don't freeze. :)
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:40 AM Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Glad you're safe with provisions! Wish it were a day off for you as well
>> but I'm thinking not : (
>>
>> Stay warm! It's unseasonably cold here but no freezing yet. I'm amazed at
>> some of the temperature variations all over the country.
>>
>> Lynn
>>
>> On Jan 29, 2019, at 9:27 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi from Chiberia! Here cometh the Polar Vortex. <ominous chord>
>>
>> I did trudge the two blocks to our nearest supermarket last night to get
>> some potentially essential provisions: a frozen pizza, mac & cheese,
>> pancake syrup, sliced gouda, and high-fiber cereal. And a freshly made
>> Bosnian cheese-filled pastry thing (like a spinach pie only without the
>> spinach, I guess). Obviously I did not run my shopping list past a
>> nutritionist. But I feel prepared not to leave the house until at least
>> Thursday. Cats have enough food, wet and dry.
>>
>> Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the historic record-low wind chill day. The lowest
>> I can remember experiencing is -56 while a student at Michigan State U in
>> East Lansing. There was something so essential I had to brave the wind to
>> walk a block to the Mini-Mart convenience shop. Can't remember what;
>> perhaps generic chicken franks? Rum? Cans of Tab? Anyway, that level of
>> wind chill defies all thicknesses of sweaters and multiple shirts and
>> undershirts. Not to mention the exposed bits of my face. But I did have to
>> expose my eyes to see where I was going, at least periodically.
>>
>> Won't be venturing out in that tomorrow. I pray for any who have no
>> option:
>> no place to go, or heaven forbid a fire or something that requires
>> evacuation. But the city is doing a great deal to make warm places
>> available: every police station, 66 field houses in city parks, off-duty
>> CTA buses, libraries, our neighborhood's wonderful indoor park/gym (The
>> Broadway Armory), and I'm sure more will open up as needs arise. Some of
>> the kinder bus drivers are amenable in such weather to bend the rules a
>> bit
>> and pick people up who wave them down, even if they're not strictly
>> standing at an officially marked bus stop. Actually, I hope they all do
>> this. (Normally, even in torrential rain, a driver will point to the stop
>> a
>> block ahead and make the person run to it if they want to board, or wait
>> for the next bus...a few do have more mercy than that, but some draw the
>> line sharply either because they're a-holes or because of safety concerns
>> with nonstandard boarding points.)
>>
>> Anyway, lots of school closures (the Chicago Public Schools are waiting
>> until tomorrow to close...I'm sure they'll get angry responses from
>> parents
>> about being open today). Current conditions: 1 degree Fahrenheit; wind
>> chill is minus 16F (what it feels like in the wind).
>>
>> Thank you, Mike, for thinking of us Scotts here in
>> soon-to-be-historically-cold Chicagoland!
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 7:09 AM M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >>>> It's 3:30 am here, so you might already be in the thick of what's
>> being
>> > predicted for Chicago "tomorrow".  -51 degrees !!!<<<
>> >
>> > I must have misheard.  But still, damn cold!
>> >
>> > M J (Mike) Logsdon.
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Scott R. Knitter
>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>
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> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA