Jimmy

You know it’s bad when the 12th most searched for term on Google right now is “frozen pipes what to do“.

It hit -15.8°F at 6:25am at my house last night with the windchill bottoming out near -28°F (that, of course, does not take into account how it feels when the wind gusts, which would be quite a bit colder), now it has rebounded to the balmy temperature of 10° above zero and tonight is supposed to be a good deal warmer than last night, so I think the worst is over, at least in Indiana.

Classes were, in fact, canceled today at HU. Power wasn’t restored until just minutes before 9am, when the first classes of the day normally start, so I was able to sleep in and get another 7 hours of sleep (on top of the 4 I had gotten through 8am) which was very, very nice. But this means that all my friends on campus had to spend the coldest night the area as seen in many years (edit: NWS says it hasn’t been this cold in 24 years) in unheated dorm rooms and/or crowded warming locations, neither of which had to be really fun. I hope they’re all OK.

Anyway. I should go see about some breakfast of something.

Cheers.

-j

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