Winter lollerskates.

[nenena]

A notice that I found in my mailbox today, from my landlord:

WINTER HEATER NOTICE: When it reaches below 28F, the outside units will not function properly. Therefore, you will need to switch from normal heat to emergency heat. If you have problems with your heater, contact the office.

OMFG.

Clearly I'm not in Minnesota anymore.

28F?! That's like the high temperature on a warm day in March in Minneapolis.

Last week the temperature dropped all the way down to - gasp! - 54 degrees on Monday night. Some of my cohorts were complaining about how insufferably cold it was. I just sat there and LOL'd silently. Oh, ye thin-skinned southerners.

Comments

[meiousei.livejournal.com]

I remember Florida last November, when we had a morning in the 50's. I biked to work in a sleeveless bike jersey, and when I got there my co-workers were wearing wool coats. I LOLed.

We're having highs in the 40's tomorrow in Madtown. I'm savoring the last of the warm weather.

[evercool.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, weather drama is so funny. xD People wear skirts and shorts in 50 degree weather here.

Though I must admit, everyone FREAKS OUT when there's even an INCH of snow and they have to drive here. Even though it snows EVERY YEAR.

[meiousei.livejournal.com]

Icon approval ACTIVATE.

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

Wow, nice heaters have they.

[nenena.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they're perfectly good heaters for a climate where the temperature rarely drops below freezing!

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

Well, they need heaters that can handle colder weather, methinks.

[animeshen.livejournal.com]

Person from Minneapolis LOLS FOREVER. 28? Thats all? Are you sure they didn't mean 28 below?
I live in WA now and it's funny to see how crazy people get when it snows. Last year was an exception because it was like three to four feet and maybe TWO snowplows in the whole state but before that there'd be this sugar coating of snow and they'd be shutting down all the schools.

[thegrapeofdeath.livejournal.com]

54? That's really nice weather here in the winter. I can still wear shorts on those day and no jacket, as long as it isn't pouring rain. Granted, we usually don't get much lower than the 20's here.

[broccoman.livejournal.com]

54 is considered nice for a low here in late November- and this is non-mountainous North Carolina. I mean, you guys actually get snow every year.

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

Wait, so you moved from Minneapolis to somewhere warmer, and in this new place the regular heating stops working below a temperature it really should be able to handle? Oh good grief. Someone else has solved this problem people, it's okay to learn from others.

*converts temperatures to Celsius*

Mind, that 28 would be probably the coldest I've ever experienced in my life. People round here would consider 54 Fahrenheit warm coat weather too. Minneapolis is going to cause me troubles, clearly.

[nenena.livejournal.com]

Y'know, a part of me is wondering if maybe it has something to do with energy efficiency...? Like, I really don't know enough about the science of heaters to say for sure. But there might be something to the idea that smaller, lighter heaters are more energy efficient in a climate that rarely gets actually cold - and as long as there's a backup system in place for the rare ocassions when it's needed, I'm not complaining.

[miss-breeziness.livejournal.com]

I'm probably just as thin-skinned as those Southerners. Where I live, it never goes below zero degrees (although other parts of New Zealand are colder). The downside is no snow and the lack of all the fun things one can do with it. :)

[furikku.livejournal.com]

Damn Yankees! >:(

[nenena.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I have an automatic knee-jerk association thing for that phrase going in my brain!

[miss-breeziness.livejournal.com]

That was...funny and totally AWESOME all at once.

[genarti]

Emergency heat at 28? Ahahahaha.

...Although, to be fair, I remember growing up in Cincinnati, and thinking that an inch or two was a BIG SNOWFALL, TIME TO CANCEL SCHOOL PLEASE NOW PLEASE. My sister visited from Montana during a 'snowstorm,' and she said, "We wouldn't even plow the roads for this!"

When we moved to New England, I realized that she had not in fact been kidding.

[olgiebear.livejournal.com]

-2 degrees Celsius is an emergency?

That a wonderful temperature here in Canada to have this time of year.

[corinn.livejournal.com]

How did I not see this before LOL?

It was in the low fifties today. It was 40 when I went out this morning, and I was freezing. Was decent the rest of the day in my long-sleeved shirt, long pants, and cable-knit turtleneck.

Yeah, Southern California. 50F? WAAAAH COLD!