Long underwear and small bottles of bourbon can make the ride a little easier. If you drink little bits of bourbon while you are walking in 0 degree weather it feels awesome. Your insides get all warm while your outsides are cold. Kinda like the getting out of a sauna, rolling around in snow, and getting back into the sauna effect. Only just in your guts.
when the Titanic sank there was one guy who was said to have survived because he drank bourbon the whole time, even while he was just floating around in the water. There's no way this is true but it is printed very seriously in serious history books! This one drunk guy who lived when so many others perished, specifically because the bourbon had warmed him up
Just saying. Walking with a friend on a snowy night and they are kinda drunk on bourbon and floppy and they flop into a snow bank. I'm imagining it as really dry snow so also a little bit of a comical snow explosion on impact. Maybe a snow beard on your face as you get up. Sounds like an adorable time with most people, but especially quality people like yourself. I kinda miss winter a lot sometimes. I wish there was a mellower sad emoticon.
About drinking bourbon to stay warm: I remember hearing that alcoholism among the homeless in Montréal puts them even more at risk in cold temperatures because alcohol only gives you the illusion of warmth, you feel better, but your body is still the same temperature? And then again, being drunk and sleepy when it is minus 40 degrees celsius makes it so that some of them fall asleep at the wrong place and freeze to death. I remember hearing horror stories of homeless people getting fatally hit by snow plows who failed to see them on the snow banks they took a nap on. But maybe those are just stories to scare children away from abusing intoxicants?
last night leaving campus at 9:45 at night I was walking fast trying to pass a group of ambling students when I slipped on black ice and SHRIEKED and my bag flew up in the air, but I caught it all at the last minute and did not fall. The students were like "NICE CATCH!!!!!!!!!!"
i'm supposed to fly to sacramento tomorrow....THROUGH CHICAGO
It's really important that I get there by thursday morning! I don't know what to do. United just emailed me saying cancellations are likely throughout the midwest tomorrow. Do I go anyway? Any advice? my flight out of chicago is at 9 pm. tomorrow
I was JUST coming here to rhapsodize about this incredible spring day! The birds are going apeshit, you can smell things in the air, it's a toasty 30 degrees, everything is drippy. I feel incredible
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I remember hearing that alcoholism among the homeless in Montréal puts them even more at risk in cold temperatures because alcohol only gives you the illusion of warmth, you feel better, but your body is still the same temperature?
And then again, being drunk and sleepy when it is minus 40 degrees celsius makes it so that some of them fall asleep at the wrong place and freeze to death. I remember hearing horror stories of homeless people getting fatally hit by snow plows who failed to see them on the snow banks they took a nap on. But maybe those are just stories to scare children away from abusing intoxicants?
what is this world
WE'RE FUCKED
Two days ago it was SIXTY and everyone was outside like the opening shot of Sound of Music
a lot of melt happened that day, and then it re-froze- now there are terrifying, thick sheets of ice on every sidewalk and street.
WHEN DOES IT END
MEANWHILE http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Portland+OR+USOR0275:1:US
It's really important that I get there by thursday morning! I don't know what to do. United just emailed me saying cancellations are likely throughout the midwest tomorrow. Do I go anyway? Any advice? my flight out of chicago is at 9 pm. tomorrow
it's coming down out there (here)- little sleety snows that can honestly go F themselves.
I love thinking about monks having snowball fights through the ages