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Frozen Campuses The Polar Vortex is here!

Frozen Campuses The Polar Vortex is here! i am seeing headlines such as: ‘CHICAGO COLDEST EVER! FROSTBITE IN MINUTES! -60° WIND CHILL MINNEAPOLIS.’ Note the all-caps, exclamation-pointed emphasis. I thought of were the students at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and all the other campuses over which The Vortex will sweep (and has already swept) this week when I read that headline, the first people.

It isn’t just like the regular non-Vortex wintertime hasn’t already caused problems right here in the north climes. Yesterday, I had to produce a trip that is death-defying the frozen, icy tundra of my driveway in my own wife’s Honda CR-V. The snow and ice addressing my concrete-paved driveway would require A cat D-9 bulldozer to split it loose. Our mother earth is showing no mercy only at the beginning of 2019.

To facilitate my wife’s venture towards the supermarket, I moved her automobile to the end of the driveway, that may oftimes be its parking that is new spot outside of the garage, until all this ice and snowfall loosens up — ideally by June or July. The air that is outside happens to be hovering just above zero earlier this week and for the next three mornings, it’ll be FROSTBITE IN MINUTES! ‘simply above zero’ reminds me of late comedian George Carlin’s bit while the Hippy Dippy Weatherman. He reported, ‘The heat is zero. No climate today.’

Thus, i am considering cold universities. For anybody high schoolers looking for prospect schools to a Continue reading