Mom did not say much about 40 below zero from her childhood. Did say that when it got 20F below zero they'd talk like it was summer, being so much warmer.
In the morning granddad would open up all the doors and windows before starting a fire to heat the house. Stale air doesn't burn well or heat up as fast. Plus, I think the body does better with fresh air than stale air.
Below freezing doesn't happen much here. Some years none. And others, a few weeks. Certainly different kinds of snow. Some can be driven fast in and others drive slow. Sometimes, if don't drive fast enough, like 40-45 miles per hour, it's very slippery. Other times going fast is slippery. And then there is having having a couple of wheels in the deep and a couple of wheels on the packed. If one is slippery often the others are not. Jiggling the steering wheel, constantly, and you know immediately when the auto is going onto slippery snow and ice. Tires are not the same. One year I was flying past other people on the road. But, the last day they flew past me, and I was barely moving. One time going west it was slippery. When I turned north onto another road I could go fast, and needed to, because of the hill to go up. After driving on snow and ice for several weeks it is nice to see it gone. Those of you who have longer periods of snow and ice I don't envy you at all. Two or three weeks is plenty. It is always nice to have a week or two of winter snow instead of none. And for ice skating no snow at all. Seasons are nice.
