-35 Below, so I say NO
Jan. 7th, 2015 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseSt. Paul didn't close schools today.
The wind chills are expected to reach -35 F (-37.22 C for my foreign friends--also is this right? I don't know that my converter can handle minus temps). Winds are expected at 15 to 25 mph. How wind chill works is that it's "the measure of the perceived decrease in air temperature felt by the body on exposed skin due to the flow of air." Another fun fact is that when the real temperature is -19 F, exposed skin can freeze in one minute. The REAL temp outside at the moment is -23 F. (My family thinks the skin freezing thing is false, well, fine: it's still colder here that it is on some parts of Mars.)
Minneapolis closed school.
For a point of reference, Minneapolis is 10 blocks from my house to the west. I can drive down University Avenue for less than a minute and arrive in Minneapolis.
So... Mason is home today because I'm not sure what St. Paul is smoking, but it's not safe.
St. Paul has decided that all absences are excused today, at least, but we would have kept Mason out regardless and he doesn't even wait for a bus. Why? Well, firstly, in protest, because most other people do have to wait outside and buses do not run on time always. Secondly, because the last time we decided to go in temperatures like these our car broke down and Shawn and Mason had to walk several blocks home while I was forced to sit in the car to wait for triple-A. I was lucky, our break down was tire related and I could have heat, but our car door also sticks open and super-cold temps, so I was really very chilly.
The decision, St. Paul has said on its Facebook discussion about this, was partly to aid homeless youth for whom school is the one place they can get a regular meal. At the same time they announced this, a call went out to the neighborhood for warm winter coats for homeless kids because there's a real shortage. So, St. Paul required homeless kids to leave the warmth of their shelters, wait for the bus without winter coats, just for a meal? I'm not entirely sure how well all that works in terms of logic.
So, yeah, that's my morning.
As I just told my friend in Wales when she asked me if I was writing--not yet, I have to drink more coffee and complain about the weather. It's the Minnesotan thing to do.
:-)
I also thought I do a very mini review of Ms. Marvel #10. My subscription finally came, btw. Long ago, I decided to subscribe to Ms. Marvel because at CONvergence many years ago, I was on a panel with Sigrid Ellis, who suggest that the best way to support women comic book writers was to subscribe to the titles they wrote. So, dutifully, I went to Marvel.com and put in my credit card info. I was pretty sure I was being ripped off because nothing ever came. Turns out, I apparently signed on to start AFTER #9. At any rate, #10 "Generation Why" showed up at my doorstep a couple of days ago.
In #10 we see Kamala talking to the kids she's rescued from the Inventor's battery packs. They're completely down with being used this way, it turns out because they're all a bunch of Nihilists who are convinced that since the world is going to hell in a hand basket there's really no point in living, at least, they feel being a battery has a low carbon footprint O-kay, thinks Kamala, and she tries to convince them otherwise. My favorite moment comes when she's talking to each of them about their skills and how they can apply them to grown-up, adulting Real Life, One guy says he's good at tinkering and she's all, "Awesome. Future Engineer." Another kid pokes his head up and says, "I'm good at doing the ons nobody else wants because they're dangerous and stupid" She doesn't miss a beat and replies: "Future president." That was worth the cover price, IMHO.
In general, I'm just as happy my subscription starts now. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next (though I'm really hoping for an actual defeat for the Inventor soon). I really like G. Willow Wilson's voice for Kamala. Like my example under the cut, it's funny and sharp and smart. Also, I'm growing very fond of Adrian Alphona's art. It's stylized, but in a way I like?
The wind chills are expected to reach -35 F (-37.22 C for my foreign friends--also is this right? I don't know that my converter can handle minus temps). Winds are expected at 15 to 25 mph. How wind chill works is that it's "the measure of the perceived decrease in air temperature felt by the body on exposed skin due to the flow of air." Another fun fact is that when the real temperature is -19 F, exposed skin can freeze in one minute. The REAL temp outside at the moment is -23 F. (My family thinks the skin freezing thing is false, well, fine: it's still colder here that it is on some parts of Mars.)
Minneapolis closed school.
For a point of reference, Minneapolis is 10 blocks from my house to the west. I can drive down University Avenue for less than a minute and arrive in Minneapolis.
So... Mason is home today because I'm not sure what St. Paul is smoking, but it's not safe.
St. Paul has decided that all absences are excused today, at least, but we would have kept Mason out regardless and he doesn't even wait for a bus. Why? Well, firstly, in protest, because most other people do have to wait outside and buses do not run on time always. Secondly, because the last time we decided to go in temperatures like these our car broke down and Shawn and Mason had to walk several blocks home while I was forced to sit in the car to wait for triple-A. I was lucky, our break down was tire related and I could have heat, but our car door also sticks open and super-cold temps, so I was really very chilly.
The decision, St. Paul has said on its Facebook discussion about this, was partly to aid homeless youth for whom school is the one place they can get a regular meal. At the same time they announced this, a call went out to the neighborhood for warm winter coats for homeless kids because there's a real shortage. So, St. Paul required homeless kids to leave the warmth of their shelters, wait for the bus without winter coats, just for a meal? I'm not entirely sure how well all that works in terms of logic.
So, yeah, that's my morning.
As I just told my friend in Wales when she asked me if I was writing--not yet, I have to drink more coffee and complain about the weather. It's the Minnesotan thing to do.
:-)
I also thought I do a very mini review of Ms. Marvel #10. My subscription finally came, btw. Long ago, I decided to subscribe to Ms. Marvel because at CONvergence many years ago, I was on a panel with Sigrid Ellis, who suggest that the best way to support women comic book writers was to subscribe to the titles they wrote. So, dutifully, I went to Marvel.com and put in my credit card info. I was pretty sure I was being ripped off because nothing ever came. Turns out, I apparently signed on to start AFTER #9. At any rate, #10 "Generation Why" showed up at my doorstep a couple of days ago.
In #10 we see Kamala talking to the kids she's rescued from the Inventor's battery packs. They're completely down with being used this way, it turns out because they're all a bunch of Nihilists who are convinced that since the world is going to hell in a hand basket there's really no point in living, at least, they feel being a battery has a low carbon footprint O-kay, thinks Kamala, and she tries to convince them otherwise. My favorite moment comes when she's talking to each of them about their skills and how they can apply them to grown-up, adulting Real Life, One guy says he's good at tinkering and she's all, "Awesome. Future Engineer." Another kid pokes his head up and says, "I'm good at doing the ons nobody else wants because they're dangerous and stupid" She doesn't miss a beat and replies: "Future president." That was worth the cover price, IMHO.
In general, I'm just as happy my subscription starts now. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next (though I'm really hoping for an actual defeat for the Inventor soon). I really like G. Willow Wilson's voice for Kamala. Like my example under the cut, it's funny and sharp and smart. Also, I'm growing very fond of Adrian Alphona's art. It's stylized, but in a way I like?