-=> Quoting Mark Lewis to Daryl Stout on 01-11-13  13:01 <=-

 DS> In 1982 The temperature at O'Hare Airport in Chicago IL plunged to 
 DS> an all-time record of 26 degrees below zero, and high winds drove 
 DS> the wind chill reading to 77 degrees below zero.  The temperature 
 DS> in Downtown Chicago reached 23 degrees below zero.  A week later, 
 DS> a second arctic surge sent the temperature plunging back down to
 DS> 25 degrees below zero.

 ML> i remember this... i was in Rantoul about an hour south of Chicago
 ML> when i was  in the USAF at ICBM school... my young wife, first son and
 ML> i lived in a small  second floor apartment... we got snowed in that
 ML> weekend because the drift came  up and covered our doorway... the worst

How dramatic... and probably more than a bit scary... 

 ML> part was that 4 or 5 of my buddies from  the base had also come out for
 ML> an evening of TV, cards amd drinking... it took  a week for us to get
 ML> out... not fun at all... 

Apparently roads were pretty nasty too then...  with 5 or 6 to dig out,
that part couldn't have been too bad... ;0  Did your commanding officers
understand...?  

ttyl           neb

... I poured spot remover on my dog, now he's gone.

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