FROST BITE AND HYPOTHERMIA CAN OCCUR IN A MATTER OF MINUTES.

Man, a friend of mine (who is not a parent) posted on FB today "I bet all the parents whining about how their kids need to stay home because it's too cold will be whining about their kids going to school when it's humid in June."

My reaction was pretty much, "Do you know how quickly hypothermia and frostbite can happen when kids are outside waiting for the bus or walking to school at 7 am in this weather? No kid is going to get heatstroke at 7 am in June."

Several parents jumped in to agree with me. What the hell, man. You have a nice warm Subaru to drive to work. Shut your piehole.

Where are you again, shrift?

Apparently Chicago has been relocated to Jötunheim.

shrift lives slightly closer to the sun than I do.

Colder out in the burbs, eh?

"I bet all the parents whining about how their kids need to stay home because it's too cold will be whining about their kids going to school when it's humid in June."

I swear, the majority of the internet is for people to criticize other people while not knowing what they're talking about.

Colder out in the burbs, eh?

Maybe. Unless the wind is from the lake.

I swear, the majority of the internet is for people to criticize other people while not knowing what they're talking about.

The rest is for cats. And porn. And people complaining about porn to their cats.

Also, parents don't whine about kids going to school on a regular schedule. We whine about unexpected kids at home on days when we're supposed to be working.

Lee might remember but one of the early conversations our librarian classmates had was about living in places where the weather report was supplemented by something else. Someone who had lived in Hawaii mentioned that the weather was really a surf report. I was coming from Buffalo, where we'd get the number of minutes it would take exposed skin to freeze.

In other weather news, NYC has reached double digits! We are at 18/feels like 15! I may go down to only one layer of gloves for my commute home.

A guy in my office was griping that when it was cold suddenly children lost the ability to learn and adults the ability to work. Of course, he had a kid at home. But he also had NINE INCHES of snow where he lived. yikes!

We're up to 16/feels like 5, and it's snowing.

And Duane Reade was sold out of Hot Hands again. Maybe I'll just order a case from Amazon and keep them in the basement for the next polar vortex.