If you have thick wool socks, cold is not the problem with sandals. This problem would be that when you are walking you get snow on your toes, and that is cold. I can go bare-feet in sandals until it starts snowing, no matter the temperature.
It was -18F on the way to work yesterday morning. Monday was a whiteout. I saw this, and then I turned around and headed back to base to work from home:
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Nice, @Boomer. Heâs going to take out the power grid!
I was in San Antonio in the early 80âs attending one of Uncle Samâs vocational schhols. It snowed while I was there. Just enough to still see the grass through the snow.
Closed business, sent kids home form school early - major event.
Itâs been a bit chilly here, tooâŚdid I mention that my furnace was also down for a couple of days?
When I woke up this morning the house was 51 degrees. I feel like shit. And I want to go back to sleep now.
I changed the filter, it has been a month after all. Thankfully by the time I left the house was 61. But, I still feel like shit.
And my wife called me from two hours away with a flat tire.
Yesterday it was 76 here in Central Texas. Today our expected high is 36, maybe 37, overcast with a good chance of rain. We go on these 2 to 3 day jags of horrific cold then itâs in the 70âs for a day or two and weâre plunged, again, into temps we normally only see in our refrigerators. Iâm too old for this shit.
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I would love to see 36 degrees as itâs been a while. A lot of below zero to teens around here lately.
We need to replace the air filter here, too. Weâve been sick TOO MUCH. And allergies only exacerbate it. Bleh.
There are reports of actual snow falling in the next town. My weather widget says itâs 39°, though. Iâm warm and comfy on my bed, so I donât want to get up to look. 
Bleh. Another 5-10 inches of snow Tuesday night into Wednesday. So probably another snow day with blizzard bags to do. I love winter, but Iâm ready to move into another season. At least it should be warm enough I can send the kids out to play in the snowstormâŚ
The roads here are disintegrating. This freeze, super freeze, play with 40, super freeze, freeze, snow, 45, salt, plow shit is actually causing a couple sections of highway to accordion. Not to mention the craters you can lose a Suzuki in.
New York is under a state of emergency today. Not NYC, not NY County, the entire state. From Montauk to Plattsburgh to Niagara Falls.
Iâve no clue how long itâll take me to get home tonight. If the snow keeps up at the current pace, it could be 2+ hours (normally 45 minutes).
I hope you took it slow and steady.
Bah. Drive took less than an hour. No major issues.
And then I got to Subaru all the way into the driveway 
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Drive in for me (on the other side of the lake) took 2.5 hours. Drive home took 50 minutes because all the idiot drivers from the morning left early.
Most recent snowfall here was mixed with enough rain to make it a heavy, HEAVY pack on the ground. Previous snowfalls this year have been lightânâfluffy - this one weighed easily four or five times as much for the same volume.
Plus, it froze as a crust. The crust was solid enough that I could walk on top of the snow without breaking through most of the time.
I had to run the snowthrower at it in increments of inches to chop it up.
And some stupid@ss parked on the street in front of my house⌠so the snowplow left wide swaths in front of my drive and in front of the neighborâs. All froze, of course, all hard as a rock since it was frozen slush and not snowfall. We donât know whoâs minivan it is⌠deputy sheriff is now handling since itâs been there for more than 3 days.
Main roads are about 90% clear, side streets still largely covered. Thatâs from a snowfall that stopped midnight between Tuesday/ Wednesday.
What is this âsnowâ and âslushâ of which you speak? Such things are foreign and unknown in this distant land.
I think Mother Nature is getting tired. All she could manage this week in my area is finally dropping it below 30 degrees F and these tiny snowflakes for about 10 or 15 minues at a time. Just enough for you to notice it and think, âOkay, technically, itâs snowingâ.
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Remember the furnace I had to replace two weeks ago because it died? That was nothinâ!
Water stopped flowing to our house and that of our neighbor across the street last Saturday. The ensuing CF resulting from the circumstances of our common service line (itâs privately owned, not village infrastructure) and itâs location beneath a Village street, still hasnât untangled to the point of a confirmed plan for resolution.
This may be the trigger for a postal eventâŚor maybe just a personal meltdown.
ADDENDUM: Still no water. Believe itâŚor Not!
When everyone around us was reporting snow, it was sunny. I donât know what it is about Olalla â itâs all or nothinâ!
0 degrees, piles of snow are now dangerous collections of knife like protrusions.