Freaking cold

This weekend for work I am going to be in Green Bay, Wisconsin. If you are living under a rock, it's going to be in the low single digits as high temperatures here. I own a lot of cold weather gear. I am fine if the temperature is in the 20s for several days in a row, or for one day of single digits. I am not prepared for multiple days of single digits, and then add in the windchill you're at -20.

Last night I went out and purchased additional clothes, properly layering so I hopefully won't have to write in a future blog about suffering from frostbite or hypothermia. Going to three different stores, I was able to buy enough layers that I should be able to survive. I already had the basics- a couple of really good jackets, good outer layer snow pants and boots that are good to -40. I had basic layer stuff, but i needed more Base Layer clothing, and then an additional outer layer.

On the way in to town today, we stopped at Target stores buying up electric blankets to keep the equipment warm. You get a lot of weird looks when you're buying 7 electric blankets at a time. It took stops at 4 stores, but we were able to get the 15 that we think we need. More on that later.