We are a little off topic here but when I lived on the north side of Dayton, OH we drove back to western Iowa for Christmas. I had an Escort then and there was 4 of us in the car. Going through Iowa with all the humans in the little car all the windows but the windshield were frosted over. I said it must be pretty cold out. We went by a truck stop with a time/temp sign and it said -25 degrees, yet pretty cold, that's without wind chill effect. Had a convention in Des Moines about the 2nd of January and it was about -15 then. A bunch of us wanted to hit a few bars so we gave the hotel limo driver $20 to drive us around in the hotel van and keep it warm. Every place we stopped we would buy him a drink to but not enough to get him tippsy but it sure beat warming up a car all the time. And, a lot cheaper than getting a taxi.
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