serendipti's Diaryland Diary

2:38 p.m. - Wednesday, Dec. 07, 2005

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kill me i 'm freezing

sorry I did not finish the last entry. maybe it is because my fingers froze and fell off.
the thing aboout persepctive is it make yous do funny things....i actually said to myself, thank god, this is warm when I left the hospital this afternoon....it was 18 degrees.....much different from this morning, when it was 8 and last night when it was 2 below, when I was tempted to ask the universe to take me away.
I cannot fixate on anything except how cold it is. And thus this article about the record setting lows in the chi:
.....here is how I am doing, in a nutshell:

Record setting low temperatures in Illinois

The Associated Press
Published December 6, 2005, 4:27 PM CST

Meteorologists say cold, dry air combined with snow on the ground has created record setting low temperatures in Illinois this week.

Chicago-area temperatures Monday dipped down to four degrees, according to the National Weather Service, beating the previous record of six degrees which was first set in 1895.

It was even colder in the Quad Cities, where temperatures reached a frigid minus four degrees. The previous record low temperature of minus two degrees was set in 1886.

The weather service said the temperatures are about 20 degrees below normal for this time of year. Tonight, wind chills in some areas will make single digits temperatures feel even colder.

Chicago officials said today that five Human Service offices are open around the city to serve as warming centers. They said 250 people visited those centers Monday.

The city is also conducting well-being checks with senior citizens and responding to complaints by renters about low temperatures in their apartments.

According to officials, landlords are required to keep the temperature inside at 68 degrees during the day and 66 degrees overnight. In the last 24 hours, the Buildings Department has received 187 complaints for inadequate heating.

The cold spell is expected to continue until the weekend.

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