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Related: About this forumDear Northerners: We get that this weather is no big deal for you. Now please shut up.
'Hello! Good morning! Washington metropolitan area, you have woken and you are on your eighth day of being very cold. Which means, if you are originally from a place accustomed to lower temperatures New Hampshire, say, or Ely, Minn. you are on your eighth day of pompously explaining how you used to ice-pick your way to the office while riding the carcass of a frozen walrus.
And you know what? Just stuff it.
I mean, I have dealt with cold weather, says Alexandra Palombo, current Washingtonian. I went to college in central New York. But theres a certain smugness Northerners have about cold and their ability to handle it. We get it, youre from a tundra. But I just think, why are you here, if it was so great?
Plus, as Palombo has considered while walking to her office near the currently frigid Union Station neighborhood, a lot of the cold in those other places is lake effect. Its more snow than ice and wind. For those four years I was in Ithaca, did I have better coats? Was I just a dumb college kid? Or is it possible that it actually does feel more bitter here? Is this whole city a wind tunnel?
I think it must be a wind tunnel, offers Mike Koschak, who has pondered this question on his own commute to work in Washington. Look, if you are in one of those Midwestern states where everyone boasts that theyre used to the weather you are driving everywhere. Here, you are walking, or youre biking, or worst, youre just standing. Youre waiting for the bus, and youre standing.'>>>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/dear-northerners-we-get-that-this-weather-is-no-big-deal-for-you-now-please-shut-up/2018/01/04/2084459a-f0ba-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html?
A fun read, imo; no hard feelings from this New Yawka who lived in DC for 20 years and now in southern MD where today's hi is 22, river adjacent to my home is partly frozen and the creek is almos entirely frozen!
BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)When I went to school in Milwaukee the Minnesota kids would brag how much colder it was where theyre from, even when the wind chill was -30.
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(131,028 posts)IronLionZion
(45,475 posts)I like this cold instead of the wet sticky slush we usually get around here. It's been delightful going for afternoon walks this past week. I love it.
I've lived in Western PA, Western NY, Minnesota, Indiana, and lived in this area for almost 10 years now. My hometown is -6 today. DC is a balmy 17 right now and sunny. Who's up for a walk on the frozen reflecting pool?