Actually Gamer, it's not just one underground mall -- you can walk from McGill College all the way down to Notre-Dame Cathedral underground, it's 30 km of underground shopping. Coldest I ever experienced was when I was teaching in Eastern Iowa -- we had 30 inches of snow on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and then the temperature got so cold that the bank in town said it was -36 F. I had friends who lived in a tiny town in north-central NoDak and it would snow so hard and drift so badly that they'd be stuck for a few days... they lived on canned food and meat that they put outside to freeze.
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Call me crazy - That's what I love about NoDak - all that drifting makes for the BEST snowforts! 30 inches of Snow in one day in E. Iowa - Hasn't happened in the 10+ years I've been here. Though it may have happened while we were at IL's for the holiday & been gone when we got back. I'm also more southeast, so we totally get different weather than northeast Iowa. Oh & we had a slight snow fall last night - though nothing significant. it will be gone by the time I leave work. It is freaking windy, though.
This was New Year's Day 1999 in Independence (between Dubuque and Waterloo)... I distinctly remember it because I had to shovel enough snow to get my truck out and be able to attach the plow to the front of it so I could plow us (and our neighbours) out to the paved road! My girlfriend (now my wife) was visiting from Orange County at the time and had to fly home from Cedar Rapids -- because of the wind, IDOT could only keep one lane of 150 open and some extra cuts for people to park in when you had to pass an oncoming car.
Yeah - we're in the Iowa City area - we get different (normally less) weather than Cedar Rapids - I think the elevation changes at the reservoir & is affects the weather. That New Years we were in Kansas - we did get home to a gigantic drift in our drive - but not more than 2 feet of total snow.
It snows a LOT in California... when it rains in LA, it snows in Big Bear; when it rains in Sacramento, it snows in Tahoe. Last year we went to Mammoth Lakes one weekend and they had -- literally -- twenty feet of powder. It's 47 degrees right now, with a 25-mph wind that steals the thunder of our woefully underpowered heater.