Cold 'nuff fer yeh?

Last month was one of the coldest Decembers on record for my area, or at least that is what they told me in my gas bill. I grew up in Pennsylvania. I am not surprised by very cold days or weeks. Where I grew up, it was not unusual for a whole week to pass and the temperature not to be above 10 degrees F. Or more. When I was living in Mississippi in 2004, in January I believe, we were enduring a Mississippi "deep freeze" where the high was in the 30s for a week or two. One of the men in my class commented that he had a sore throat because of the very cold weather. I told him that just before I left the house I had gotten an email from my dad showing me the thermometer in front of their house showing -17 degrees F.
Yes, readers, I know a bunch of you are from even hardier stock than I, with your truly arctic winters in Minnesota and New England.
I think we can all agree, though, that this is much too cold for humanity.