-=> 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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