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It was 63 degrees inside my garage last night and I was freezing in there! (<-- spoiled California girl)
I'm curious about how you handle dressing... those of you that live in areas where it gets to be thirty below. What does thirty below even FEEL like? Do you have to wear tights under flannel-lined jeans under snow pants, and eighteen layers on top with a parka, or what? Or do you just wear normal clothes with really good shoes and a really warm jacket?
I ski, but it's California skiing, and of course the attire one wears while skiing can't really be called, "every day." In Tahoe we're complaining when the temps get over 32 because it makes the snow icky and lumpy and ruins the powder. I don't remember a day when I've ever skiied when the temps were anything lower than 15 degrees F.
I just wonder how on earth you get dressed for going to work, grocery shopping, sitting and watching your kid do his gymnastics lesson, etc., in a climate like that.
Somebody give spoiled Cali girl here a clue!
Apple Dumpling DesignsIt's been very cold here as well...30's and lower. We had dusting of snow early in the week...but the killer FREEZING RAIN...nasty stuff.
My youngest son's football team is preparing for the semi-final for the state 5A championships so they have been practicing like mad BULLDOGS!!! He comes home...wet, freezing, muddy and STARVING!!!
My housemate was talking to her niece last night in YUMA, ARIZONA...it had just started to SNOW. HUH? SNOW in YUMA...what's this world coming to.
MerBear Originalstights are good, under the pants. warm socks and good thick boots. Then of course on real cold days - long sleeves, sweater, thick jacket that comes down below your behind and a furred hood that covers your whole head, that is also covered with a hat. Then a scarf wrapped around over your mouth and nose for the wind chill. Oh..and don't forget a couple of pairs of gloves. If you think that's a lot to do - try to imagine dressing your toddlers to go outside. They end up looking like stiff little statues and you no sooner get them dressed when they HAVE to go pee!!! and you get one dressed and the other starts screaming and gets overheated. :crackup:
Marion
Shelli,
Your body just gets used to it! I spent 12 years in California, went to Huntington Beach High School. Now I'm in New England. I keep my house temperature at 55 degrees and I don't even put on a coat until the temperature is in the 20's! I love it, we have real seasons here 
Besides, cold temperatures burn calories, I need that!
Karen
cold temperatures burn calories, I need that!
Oh........... so THAT'S my problem!!! Geography!
I'm moving east, baby. And so's my oversized bum!
:)
Thanks, girls, for the explanations. I feel like a complete chowderhead even asking about this; my parents grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. But they don't talk much about their youth there, except to say it was very cold, and that they were both from poverty so they were ALWAYS freezing and underdressed. I think the largest reason they never took up skiing once they got to Cali was that they just couldn't believe that anyone would actually PAY to hang out in the snow!
My dad tells a story about how, once, his father left a beer out in their unheated home overnight, and when my dad woke up the next morning, the beer had frozen -- geez, that takes a serious low temp! -- and pushed the lid right off the bottle. It was sitting atop an inch of frozen ice-beer!
PS Karen -- Huntington Beach, eh? I went to school at UCLA, undergrad and grad school, so I was temporarily a SoCal girl myself. What brought you east?
Drea's BearsThanks Tracy, fortunately I don't have to go out today, I've cancelled all of my classes for tonight. It's just not worth having my students take that risk for one little old ballet class! I'll just make them work extra hard next week 
Tomorrow should be just snow but still cold........I hate being cold even though I am Canadian I'd much rather be roasting somewhere hot!
AndreaM 
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If you think that's a lot to do - try to imagine dressing your toddlers to go outside. They end up looking like stiff little statues and you no sooner get them dressed when they HAVE to go pee!!! and you get one dressed and the other starts screaming and gets overheated. :crackup:
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I like my deerskin moccasins for warmth with good socks. I feel the heat much more than the cold so honestly prefer winter to summer. The biggest downside for me is the short days. The sun isn't up until 8 or so in the morning and its dark by 4:30. You really can go to work and come home again in the dark.
Nobody mentioned having to plug your car blockheater in at night if you want a prayer of it starting in the A.M.!
We have lots of homeless right now because of our booming economy out here in western Canada. It becomes a real danger to them and even though there are 'warming stations' set up, there are usually deaths that occur because of the cold.
I am grateful for my tiny but warm little cottage!
Cheryl 
