Man, it's cold

I’m just sayin’. We were -10 at the house this morning. High of 5 expected today. Apparently, that was nothing compared to back in the day. Although there are many, many wonderful quotes in this article, my favorite has to be:

“The Portland Press Herald told of an overnight fire on James Street … it took five hours to fight the blaze in temperatures close to 30 below. A reporter paraphrased Fire Chief Oliver Sanborn as saying ‘water from the hoses froze instantly, and fell on (firefighters) like hail as it bounced off the walls of the building.’”

Posted by k-pho at January 15, 2004 10:27 AM