How do people live in Minneapolis?

[onza]

-13 this morning, my car sits outside and it didnt sound all so normal when i fired her up.

 

[JTsyo]

They move south from Canada.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I love MN and would trade Dallas for it in a heartbeat if I could get a physical design position there. Somehow attached to the Midwest.

I love the 4 distinctive seasons.
/end
Tundra -> Floods -> Mosquito -> Best season

I think you forgot "Construction"

 

[BurnItDwn]

lake of the woods or a lake near some woods. if you have been there how is it?

As a child, I've been to Minnesota near Lake Superior for family vacations. Otherwise, have not been there as an adult. I do not mean a specific lake or specific woods, just any rural lake/forest combination.

That said, I have spent many many days in Door County, Wi, in the winter. My grandmother moved there in the 80s to a house on the bay. I built some epic snow forts, snowmobiled quite a bit, used to ice fish with my uncles, and did many miles of cross country skiing there. I suspect the weather in Sturgeon Bay in the Winter is probably a bit warmer than much of MN, but, going outside from sunup until sundown in below 0 temps is not scary or foreign to me.

 

[DrPizza]

There isn't "too cold" - there's only "not properly dressed." Properly dressed, it's pretty tough in the lower 48 to ever find some place that you can't spend a few hours outside enjoying yourself. On the other hand, half of the country doesn't come out of their air conditioned houses 1/2 of the year, unless it's to run out to their remote started car with the air conditioning cranked full blast.

The only thing I really mind this year is the chores I do. 3 years ago, I had to break ice out of water buckets for maybe 10 days at the most, around Jan & Feb. This year, EVERY FREAKING DAY, except perhaps for 4, since the beginning of December. The killer for me though, we gambled - we bred 15 of our goats on the same day last year (hormone treatments brought them into heat simultaneously). In a span of 29 hours - from Mon 7pm to Tuesday midnight, we had 20 baby goats born. HUGE hassle, drying them, especially all their ears, to avoid frostbite. And, a constant concern until temperatures get back to at least 20F.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I don't live in Minneapolis, but I like the idea of anywhere that's cold 7 months out of the year. Maybe everyone there is like me. What I don't understand is why people live in the states that are hot 7 months out of the year. I hate the heat. I feel that spring and summer have nothing to recommend them as seasons.

 

[onza]

I prefer to be cold than sweating bullets. COLD > Sweating imo. Thats why we take vacations during the winter if we miss the sun.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I don't live in Minneapolis, but I like the idea of anywhere that's cold 7 months out of the year. Maybe everyone there is like me. What I don't understand is why people live in the states that are hot 7 months out of the year. I hate the heat. I feel that spring and summer have nothing to recommend them as seasons.

This, and I'm originally from the freaking tropics.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Why don't you go purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

You need to look closer to the ground.

It rained today. It was crazy.

 

[NetWareHead]

we had 20 baby goats born.

probably needs its own thread

with pics of course

 

[pete6032]

I don't live in Minneapolis, but I like the idea of anywhere that's cold 7 months out of the year. Maybe everyone there is like me. What I don't understand is why people live in the states that are hot 7 months out of the year. I hate the heat. I feel that spring and summer have nothing to recommend them as seasons.

I live in Chicago now and its cold as f***. My roommate just moved here last september from Florida and he's already talking about moving back because he can't stand this cold weather bullshit.

I have lived in #6, #4, #3, and #1.

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-winter/20-coldest-large-cities-america-20140107?pageno=20

 

[JulesMaximus]

I'm sure it's not so bad...

 

[dr150]

Honestly, it's not the cold that's really the problem for me -- it's the snow, and the result it has on traffic. Any measurable amount of snow and my commute goes from ~20 minutes one way up to usually 1.5 hours one way, sometimes 2 hours...

Get a motorcycle, yo!

BTW, I went jogging today in 70F weather....then grabbed a sammich in my flip flops. :thumbsup:


Don't get me wrong....our pillow soffft residents had our share of drama recently when the temp plummeted to 63F!!

 

[foghorn67]

I don't live in Minneapolis, but I like the idea of anywhere that's cold 7 months out of the year. Maybe everyone there is like me. What I don't understand is why people live in the states that are hot 7 months out of the year. I hate the heat. I feel that spring and summer have nothing to recommend them as seasons.

Even as a native Californian, I didn't mind the heat in Louisiana. The only time it bothered me if I got within 50 ft. of the Mississippi. It was weird how the humidity and heat would jump up as soon as you approached it's shore. I would dread having a job on the river.

I hate the ultra high dry heat. I lived in Phoenix for a few years and I couldn't stand the summers. From May to the end of September. Which is weird, because I like Tucson, even in the summer. Temps seem similar but it feels way different. And it sort of cools off at night. Phoenix didn't.
Winters are awesome in both cities.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's because many of its residents are the progeny of Nordic Aryan ubermensch.

 

[roguerower]

I'm headed up to the twin cities next week. It better be 70F and sunny!

I lived in North Dakota during the winter of '12. It wasn't too bad, you just had to dress for the weather.

That said, I will never voluntarilly move someplace where it gets that cold.

 

[BoberFett]

So who's organizing the Freeze Your Ass Off Meetup?

 

[norseamd]

So who's organizing the Freeze Your Ass Off Meetup?

polar bear swim

 

[BoberFett]

polar bear swim

No thanks, I prefer my genitals to remain external.