A truck driver was buried in it on the side of the interstate for about a week before someone noticed his antenna. Only had one pack of crackers with him.
That's why you always keep a half tank of fuel and a lot of food during the winter.
Not just food, but water and/or a way to melt snow for water. People don't realize they're getting dehydrated because of the cold, but you'll die of dehydration long before dying of hunger. Getting dehydrated also reduces blood flow to the extremties, increasing the chances of frostbite.
WV was real bad too. I was a teenager and since school was closed anyway, I was going around shoveling the snow off of people's rooftops because it was that heavy wet shit that was causing people's roofs to collapse. (and yes, for free, because that's just something White People are supposed to do.). Had to do it a couple times each over the course of a several days because the snow was piling up so fast. Good character builder and not a bad workout for a teenager with time on his hands.
Grandpa voice: "Why I remember back in the winter of '78, when it got so cold, you could only talk indoors! You couldn't talk outside because all our words just froze and fell right to the ground just as soon as they came out of our mouths! Nobody knew what anybody was saying! Then the spring thaw came and all them words thawed out almost all at once! For a couple days there you couldn't hear yourself think for all the noise!"
Maaayyybbbeee... (Funny you ask, because I was working the summers logging.)
I do remember for a fact that you couldn't tell exactly how cold it was because the thermometers all bottomed out. I shit thee not.
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