http://www.wunderground.com/US/AK/Bethel.html As of less than 35 minutes ago as I type this, it was -24 f, with windchill of -52 f. A coworker says this morning she was walking to work without snow pants on. The depth of the snow isn't significant- maybe a foot deep where it isn't trod in or plowed aside. It's the cold, of course. She did what people sometimes do when they are too cold- she started running and drew whole lungsful of frigid arctic air into her lungs. She says she then started to panic and was throwing her clothes off just as she was near the hospital and could not feel her hands as she was making it through the door. Another coworker says that people do panic and do that when they get super cold... She said her lungs were still hurting when she left work today and that she was catching a cab home. She lives all of two blocks away, but I don't blame her. Me and my roommate* arecatching cabs to and from work when it's this cold, and we live probably all of a 15 minute walk (if that) from the hospital. This town should change it's name from Bethel to Ketchikab. *We've moved out of the temp housing.
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