Here Are Photos of Frozen Fountains to Remind You How Cold It Is Everywhere in the U.S.

[LanternWaste]

7. I just cannot understand how you guys are able to live through multiple days of this...

Never having spent any appreciable amount of time in the north or northeast, I just cannot understand how you guys are able to live through multiple days (sometimes even weeks?) of sub-zero temperatures. Well, academically, I realize it's possible to live there in winter, but I have a difficult time wrapping my head around waking up where it's -15 in the morning day after day and going to work/school/etc/ in those conditions. I live in north-central Texas, and we consider anything below 20 degrees as frigid, an emergency warranting broadcast warnings, days of preparation, bottled water hoardings, school closings, etc.

Granted, I love winter camping trips (and am planning one for this weekend actually)-- but again, that's a Texas winter, we get maybe one snow (rarely anything more than an inch) and one icing a season. One heavy coat and (maybe) a scarf and we're good to go. But seeing on the news what people in MI or MN go through every year for weeks at a time makes my brain hurt.

My sympathies go out to everyone living through this.