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mtm1963
01-17-2005, 06:42 PM
:snowman: :snowman: :snowman:

Even the snowman are cold! :p

Jan 17, 4:31 PM (ET)
By The Associated Press

Temperatures plummeted across the eastern half of the nation Monday, approaching an all-time record in northern Minnesota and freezing the Gulf Coast as a river of Arctic air pushed southward.

Thermometers registered a low of 54 degrees below zero at Embarrass, Minn.

"You keep living, but it gets old after a while," said Christine Mackai, the town clerk for the community of 691 people in northeast Minnesota.

Minnesota's record is 60 below, set on Feb. 2, 1996, in Tower, about 10 miles north of Embarrass.

The cold at Embarrass didn't stop the regular customers from getting their morning coffee at Four Corners, a cafe and gas station.

"Everybody left their cars running," waitress Trish Roggenbuck said. "It was pretty much breathtaking when you walked outside."

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http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050117/D87M2T6G0.html



mtm1963

Ed Sane
01-17-2005, 07:04 PM
Now all they need is a power outage, some squirrels, weird religious figures, and maybe a truck and it just might be newsworthy.