Yep my last Chicago winter before moving to Phoenix in 2014 had a polar vortex. Many of my coworkers didn't show up to work for a couple days because they couldn't start their car.
I’m in Michigan and I work in a steel mill. Our buildings aren’t insulated, they’re just big pieces of sheet metal bolted together, and we lost heat to the plant I work at. This was during the worst days of the polar vortex. We lost our boiler houses which produce steam and heat to the plant and to the blast furnaces that make iron. Everything started to freeze, pipes and what not. Then when it started to thaw out pipes were breaking everywhere. Some of my superiors (our bosses aren’t union hourly workers) had to stay and work 24 and even 30 hour shifts straight to fix the damage done. This polar vortex was devastating. Imagine working in -15 weather all day long. The only plus side is the wind chill can’t penetrate through the walls. It just makes everything really cold.
I was born in Chicago and I remember these winters, and yeah, you do have be a little crazy to live there. Not now though. I moved to Florida in 2005. I'm crazy, not stupid.
0:00 Well, my grandmother told me about growing up in Chicago on the third floor of an apartment building with no air conditioning and inadequate heating.
YAY I SURVIVED THE POLAR EXPRESS HERE IN CHICAGO EVEN WORKED IN IT WEDNESDAY UNTIL WORK CALLED US IN EARLY AND GAVE US THURSDAY OFF BUT WAS ALSO NICE THERE WERE NO SHOOTINGS OR CRIMES IN THE CITY
Finally you will understand something about Russia! We have it every year, every winter, and not for one week. Our schools still on, our cars are running though it may be the reason we're not so cheerful. It is -40celcium right now and it is not a catastrophic :) you will survive, just dress well. Cheers!
@@dacheet8174 No, it's a strategy game. You're the Leader of some settlers in a frozen world, you're responsible for expanding your settlement around a gigantic generator that produces heat and energy, you also can develop policies to control the "hope" and "discontent" of your people.
@@danskroko3537 it mind boggling in a way. I chalk this up to the earth going through the usual changes its always done since the dawn of time. We really haven't been through a real earth quake, deep freeze, mass flooding or a giant meteorite hit yet. We should feel lucky in this aspect.
GalaxyTraveler damn you don't understand climate change in asia if it gets too cold in January and feb expect the summer to be extremely hot like el niño hot wait till you reach summer it will prove its point
here in italy the weather has gotten much warmer in the last years, it used to snow 30 cm (10 inches, i think) in the winter here in the north but now it barely snows 10 cm (5 inches) every year, the summers are also much hotter
Galaxy Traveler, globaal warming and globel freezing. I love it. Believe me I LOVE IT. I wish that we in Europe have that tempeture. Send it to us please.
markus huber wait till you reach summer it will prove its point we've been experiencing it here in asia if it gets unusually cold in January and feb expect to burn in the summer months
Don’t worry your grand kids will be experiencing it to. 🦄
or even worse
Here in Canada, we get these 'polar vortices' all the time... it just happened to move a little more south this time
did we ask
Yep my last Chicago winter before moving to Phoenix in 2014 had a polar vortex. Many of my coworkers didn't show up to work for a couple days because they couldn't start their car.
You know ur a Chicagoan when you know what the heck thunder snow and now, diamond dust is.
I’m in Michigan and I work in a steel mill. Our buildings aren’t insulated, they’re just big pieces of sheet metal bolted together, and we lost heat to the plant I work at. This was during the worst days of the polar vortex. We lost our boiler houses which produce steam and heat to the plant and to the blast furnaces that make iron. Everything started to freeze, pipes and what not. Then when it started to thaw out pipes were breaking everywhere. Some of my superiors (our bosses aren’t union hourly workers) had to stay and work 24 and even 30 hour shifts straight to fix the damage done. This polar vortex was devastating. Imagine working in -15 weather all day long. The only plus side is the wind chill can’t penetrate through the walls. It just makes everything really cold.
just when you think you've heard it all, along comes "diamond dust.." what's next..?
You have to be insane to live in a place like that!
I was born in Chicago and I remember these winters, and yeah, you do have be a little crazy to live there. Not now though. I moved to Florida in 2005. I'm crazy, not stupid.
I dunno... I've seen diamond dust often enough, when the temperature wasn't anywhere near these cold ones.
0:00 Well, my grandmother told me about growing up in Chicago on the third floor of an apartment building with no air conditioning and inadequate heating.
Missing Michigan lake~~~♥ and Chicago♥
I really enjoyed it. 💜
YAY I SURVIVED THE POLAR EXPRESS HERE IN CHICAGO EVEN WORKED IN IT WEDNESDAY UNTIL WORK CALLED US IN EARLY AND GAVE US THURSDAY OFF BUT WAS ALSO NICE THERE WERE NO SHOOTINGS OR CRIMES IN THE CITY
Diamond daydreams.
I remember 1 year it was so cold I had to bath in liquid nitrogen because water was instantly freezing over
My friend in Chicago said they don't mind when the temperature does this, because your less likely to get robbed and shot.
Squall summons Shiva
Finally you will understand something about Russia! We have it every year, every winter, and not for one week. Our schools still on, our cars are running though it may be the reason we're not so cheerful. It is -40celcium right now and it is not a catastrophic :) you will survive, just dress well. Cheers!
@FN LS we are all different and unique, just like in any other country :)
Same here in Canada :)
Just a normal winger day in Finland
Overheat the generator. The city must survive.
I come here to this comment.
Frostpunk?
@@4f52 yeah
4f52 Band name?
@@dacheet8174 No, it's a strategy game. You're the Leader of some settlers in a frozen world, you're responsible for expanding your settlement around a gigantic generator that produces heat and energy, you also can develop policies to control the "hope" and "discontent" of your people.
Very Cold !! Strong Winter !!!
Wonder what the water and gas pipes look like now.
petrol devo. Just fine - I live here. Just like all the other years it got this Cold. If you want a real reading - go to the Farmers Almanac.
@@danskroko3537 ive been reading the farmers almanac off and on. Its really interesting how the past repeats itself.
@@petroldevo9934 Almost like "History" was being Created.......Ever since 1871......Wink.
@@danskroko3537 it mind boggling in a way. I chalk this up to the earth going through the usual changes its always done since the dawn of time. We really haven't been through a real earth quake, deep freeze, mass flooding or a giant meteorite hit yet. We should feel lucky in this aspect.
Diamond Dust 🤠
And they breath that shit in
How about that it gets cold in chicago in the winter.
What about car engines are they cracking apart from the frozen fluids which expand
NO - Not the first time it got this Cold.... 47 yrs in Chicago.
I wonder if the cold weather caused a dip in the murder rate.
What grandchildren?
american weather news is so weird, when you saw the temp degrees and thought it's in celcius
America uses imperial system
you know it's really cold when ya balls make that metallic ball bearing sound as you shuffle down the street !
You most-used the term steam.
0:19 so cold vapors water too
After those ice quakes you might expect a shitload of sinkholes in the warmer weather ...
진짜 추운 동네에 살았었징
Wow
I thought Diamond Dust was slang for coke.
I'll be glad when this cold weather is gone. I pray for warm weather
Any gamers here relate to final fantasy summoning Shiva
Conclusion burn some paper man, burn the building
On the good side they are admitting the sky booms are real.
Chicagos historic cold is my sweater weather lol, -50c in northern canada, so what's that -58F, these guys at -20f bitching lol
Welcome to Winter, bitches 😎
No brain, more pain. Nature is cruel, physics are brutal...but who cares? Don't stop the music!
Just the government controlling weather.
Can there be something on RUclips where you have to prove that your parents are not related?
The lady in the end look like Jessica Biel with fewer teeth showing.
"global warming"
GalaxyTraveler damn you don't understand climate change in asia if it gets too cold in January and feb expect the summer to be extremely hot like el niño hot wait till you reach summer it will prove its point
here in italy the weather has gotten much warmer in the last years, it used to snow 30 cm (10 inches, i think) in the winter here in the north but now it barely snows 10 cm (5 inches) every year, the summers are also much hotter
Galaxy Traveler, globaal warming and globel freezing. I love it. Believe me I LOVE IT. I wish that we in Europe have that tempeture. Send it to us please.
mass pollution is disturbing the same weather patterns responsible for creating all life
Where is al gore to explain this sub zero phenomena. We are supposed to be experiencing global warming.
Shining Wind. He is on vacation in the South. There where it is warm. In may he'll come back.
Trump what about global warming? hmm bring in we cann use som global warming right now!
The planet will use and throw humans one day
Where is global warming when u need it??
markus huber wait till you reach summer it will prove its point we've been experiencing it here in asia if it gets unusually cold in January and feb expect to burn in the summer months
Oh, it’s still here...waiting...lurking.
God Warns Americans