Minnesota, hits 54 below

**OGPackin** · 01-17-2005, 02:30 PM

HowTF does anyone live there...

Thas just too dayum cold for me!

OG

Embarrass, Minnesota, hits 54 below
Freezing temps hit Gulf Coast
Monday, January 17, 2005 Posted: 1:10 PM EST (1810 GMT)

(AP) -- Temperatures plummeted across the eastern half of the nation Monday, approaching an all-time record in northern Minnesota and freezing the Gulf Coast as a river of Arctic air pushed southward.

Thermometers registered a low of 54 degrees below zero at Embarrass, Minnesota.

"You keep living, but it gets old after a while," said Christine Mackai, the town clerk for the community of about 1,400 people in northeast Minnesota.

Minnesota's record is 60 below, set on February 2, 1996, in Tower, about 10 miles north of Embarrass.

The cold at Embarrass didn't stop the regular customers from getting their morning coffee at Four Corners, a cafe and gas station.

"Everybody left their cars running," waitress Trish Roggenbuck said. "It was pretty much breathtaking when you walked outside."

While below-zero readings stayed in the upper Midwest, thermometers dropped below the freezing mark all the way to the Gulf of Mexico coast.

The morning low was 28, with wind chills in the upper teens, at Mobile, Alabama, Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi, and Pensacola, Florida. A hard freeze warning was in effect overnight into Tuesday morning for parts of Mississippi, the weather service said.

Mackai said Embarrass had been prepared for bitter cold as early as last Thursday. "It only got down to 28 below, and that's nothing. That's no big deal," she said.

Elsewhere in northern Minnesota on Monday, Babbitt chilled to 51 below, and International Falls -- which calls itself the Nation's Icebox -- dropped to 44 below, the national Weather Service said. Farther south, Minneapolis-St. Paul bottomed out at a mere 11 below.

The arctic blast followed several days of subzero temperatures. Weather service meteorologist Greg Frosig in Duluth said Monday's high would still be below zero in northern Minnesota.

**Juggernaut** · 01-17-2005, 02:32 PM

buuu****ingurrrrrr! People actually live where it gets that cold?!!! hahahaha

**OGPackin** · 01-17-2005, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by Juggernaut

buuu****ingurrrrrr! People actually live where it gets that cold?!!! hahahaha

Bro, we're lucky we live in Florida....lol

OG

**Juggernaut** · 01-17-2005, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by OGPackin

Bro, we're lucky we live in Florida....lol

OG

Amen brother Amen....pass the suntan lotion pig! hahahahaha

**Cry0smate** · 01-17-2005, 02:35 PM

I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad that I dont live in the midwest anymore.

**OGPackin** · 01-17-2005, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by Juggernaut

Amen brother Amen....pass the suntan lotion pig! hahahahaha

Hereya go...lol Pass me my sunglasses bro its sunny out...

OG

**anaBROLIC** · 01-17-2005, 02:38 PM

lol my girl is out there right now visiting family.. i mean its only 23 degrees where i am but it could be worse obviously..

**Juggernaut** · 01-17-2005, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by OGPackin

Hereya go...lol Pass me my sunglasses bro its sunny out...

OG

Hold on!......got a brain freeze....drank my slurpee a little too fast. hahahaha

**Juggernaut** · 01-17-2005, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by phatmark

lol my girl is out there right now visiting family.. i mean its only 23 degrees where i am but it could be worse obviously..

23????? Good Lord.....that's how many logs would be on the fire if I were there. hahahahaha

**OGPackin** · 01-17-2005, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by Juggernaut

Hold on!......got a brain freeze....drank my slurpee a little too fast. hahahaha

You so bad!

OG

**Red Ketchup** · 01-17-2005, 02:43 PM

-15 and sunny here now so thats not too bad, but I just checked the weather channel and they're forcasting -33 tomorrow morning when I get up for the gym... I am SO glad my car in parked in an indoors garage.

Red

**Pale Horse** · 01-17-2005, 02:45 PM

Actually you get used to it. Sometimes it gets too cold to snow.

**Juggernaut** · 01-17-2005, 02:58 PM

The ice in my tea has melted! Man, I really hate it when that happens......sorry Red and Vic, what were you guys saying.....I couldn't hear you over the steel drum band. hahahaha

**Pale Horse** · 01-17-2005, 03:00 PM

I was saying *^&* YOU!

**Juggernaut** · 01-17-2005, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by 1victor

I was saying *^&* YOU!

That's sweet of you to offer but I play for the other team....thanks anyway. hahahahaha Is that a polar bear outside sitting on your car? Gonna be tough getting to work today huh? hahahahaha