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Originally Posted by jhein
As far as I'm concerned it is not a very good idea to venture out in these conditions. If that makes me less manly then so be it. Those are life threatening temperatures and the road conditions are extremely dangerous. I don't care how good of a driver a person may be, or if they have studded tires or whatever. The wild card is always the "other guy". And he's out there.
For me, it's simply not worth it to try and drive in these conditions. Not at all. Just the hassle of repairs from a collision makes it a deal breaker for me, much less being injured or killed. No thanks.
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FWIW - if you don't want to go out in cold and wind "at all" - you probably wouldn't want to live where I have.
When you live with sub zero temps and wind routinely (northern MN), you accept it as a fact of life.
Back in January of 1983 we had a stretch of 10 days where the HIGH temp was -20 below. During that stretch we had wind chills in the neighborhood of -135 below.
People dressed for the occasion and went about their lives for the most part.
Was school canceled on a few days? Yes. Did we go on the weekend horse drawn sleigh ride we had planned of for weeks? No.
But most of us went to work as normal. Most of us did our routine grocery shopping.
I remember a Christmas Eve fire year's ago - my mother-in-laws neighbor. -40 or so. Should the fire department have refused to come out because it was cold? My mother-in-law made pot after pot of hot coffee for the fireman as they fought the blaze before they got it under control.