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.   
      
   i remember this... i was in Rantoul about an hour south of Chicago when i was   
   in the USAF at ICBM school... my young wife, first son and i lived in a small   
   second floor apartment... we got snowed in that weekend because the drift came   
   up and covered our doorway... the worst part was that 4 or 5 of my buddies   
   from the base had also come out for an evening of TV, cards amd drinking... it   
   took a week for us to get out... not fun at all...   
      
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