***Official 2025 Weather Thread***

[Cyientist]

BACK IN MY DAY! (2010-2013) it was cold as **** walking home from the bars. no ubers no nothing. just a man with a flip phone and the prospect of 2 totinos pizzas

At least you were post-smoking ban in the bars. 10 years earlier you had to debate bringing a winter coat with you knowing that it will forever smell like an ash tray or risk dying of exposure on the walk home.

 

[flycy]

I vividly remember standing at the bus stop at the end of Welch with a -40 wind chill. Had to be the coldest I've ever been. That would be in... 2008 I think.

Started my Air Force career at Grand Forks in the 90's. We didn't close the flight line until it was -80 degree windchill or worse. Coldest ambient temp I remember for a preflight was -40C. I remember that because I discovered that day doing the conversion that -40 is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit (reported on ATIS in Celsius, our ancient aircraft performance charts used Fahrenheit). You kids are soft with your -40 wind chill!

 

[ScottyP]

At least you were post-smoking ban in the bars. 10 years earlier you had to debate bringing a winter coat with you knowing that it will forever smell like an ash tray or risk dying of exposure on the walk home.

when you are hungover the next morning, having your clothes smell like an ash try was difficult to stomach.

 

[Pope]

Ah, the good old days. When Totinos were round like God intended.

I had very little money in college and lived off campus after my freshman year. Totinos got me through Iowa State.

 

[KnappShack]

when you are hungover the next morning, having you clothes smell like an ash try was difficult to stomach.

And women's hair smelled awful

 

[NoCreativity]

At least you were post-smoking ban in the bars.

Remember going out to eat and requesting the "non-smoking section" only to get placed right across the aisle from a party of 4 whose smoke is permeating all your food?

 

[alarson]

Remember going out to eat and requesting the "non-smoking section" only to get placed right across the aisle from a party of 4 whose smoke is permeating all your food?

Like having a pissing section in a pool

 

[ISUTex]

And women's hair smelled awful

Were you lighting it on fire?

 

[Three4Cy]

Wonder if ISU will cancel class. They actually canceled once due to cold when I was in school. I think the wind chill was around -30 or something like that. I lived on Welch and my dumb ass walked all the way to Mole Bio only to realize class had been cancelled when I got there. I actually got a nose bleed from the cold on the walk.

They won't cancel; they will move everything to virtual.

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

Ah, the good old days. When Totinos were round like God intended.

The pizza name now hangs on the front door of a high school in the Twin Cities. We are recruiting a bball player from there.

 

[cycloner29]

when you are hungover the next morning, having your clothes smell like an ash try was difficult to stomach.

After spending the night at Fox Lounge, your clothes would look like you starched the living crap out of them as they literally keep their shape when you took them off due to the heavy smoke.

 

[4cy16]

And women's hair smelled awful

carpet or drapes?

 

[Clonehomer]

carpet or rug?

Hard floors don’t absorb smells.

 

[SayMyName]

Hard floors don’t absorb smells.

Seems fishy

 

[NWICY]

do they have a coat check?

Johnny's has free coat check and there is a public area where you can hang your coat for free.

 

[nfrine]

do they have a coat check?

Come in the west entrance, lower level. Off to the left.

 

[NWICY]

Remember going out to eat and requesting the "non-smoking section" only to get placed right across the aisle from a party of 4 whose smoke is permeating all your food?

LOL lots of places had a non smoking section but the restaurant was filled with the blue haze of cigarette smoke.

 

[jcyclonee]

And women's hair smelled awful

Yes. But so many of the fun girls smoked. At least when they drank.

 

[jcyclonee]

carpet or rug?

Isn't the correct question "carpet or drapes?"

 

[AllInForISU]

Come in the west entrance, lower level. Off to the left.

That’s not a coat check. But it is a place you can hang your coat. No one is really watching it though.