..is what I am. Temps today for my part of Ohio were (at 7am) 3 fahrenheit. At 8, it was 12. But with wind chill, close to zero. And next week, without wind chill, forecasts are for lows of -4, with wind chill, -15 BRRRR!
Although you wouldn't be able to guess this from these views..
What you see above is a 200 year old stone church, gradually being enfolded by the big city.
Below is a view of the city, from around the corner..
What you can't see are the snow powder-devils whirling around on the sidewalk. It was so windy, my eyeballs dried out and starting freezing.. OW!
In case you were wondering what I was doing downtown, allow me to spin the chronometer back to this morning...
Whoo Hoo! A Cleveland Tour, in a comfy Stretch Limo, sponsored by Rockwell. How lovely!
Because our tour vehicle was a limo, most of what I was able to see out of foggy windows was sidewalk, storefronts, bundled legs, shopping bags, road, construction sites and snowblown cars, all lovingly enunciated and elocuted by our tour guide.
We did manage to escape from our rolling prison though. One such stop was the Cleveland Rock n Roll museum, where we saw props from rock concerts, thoughtfully discard..um donated by Rock artistes such as this food item:
and this disco device:
Interesting diversion, but that's it. Oh, but this marks the 2nd time I have visited an I.M. Pei building, the first being the Lourve.. see the resemblance here?
After a really average lunch (with a weird rendition of beef horfun), the tour ended. Inspired by our whirlwind tour of Cleveland, three of us decided to go visit the Cleveland Museum of Art.
That well-intentioned move was doomed from the start. Aside from the gale-force winds scraping snowflakes into the car's paint job, almost everything at the museum was closed!! They are gearing up for the Monet exhibit later this month, apparently. So what did we do? Followed our Singaporean indoctrination of course! We shopped! I bought a post card, maggie-nets and a battering ram.
This greeted us outside the gift shop.
After a long, cold day, what better food to have than a nice carbo-ey soup?!
If you're thinking it looks like a steel doggy bowl, you're right! Only $2, it's large enough to house soup, pasta, veggies and meat. Yummy slurpy hot stuff on a freezing day!
In case you can' see past the light flare, the police came this time! Gee Whiz! Two firetrucks, two police cars and an ambulance! What now? Thanks for coming so quickly to a fire alarm guys, it's much appreciated.
After the resigned hubbub of disgruntled, frozen firemen grumbling about the cold finally died down, us hapless residents discovered that some resident had his door broken in, or he had broken his door, and the impact, or something set off the fire alarm. Lovely. And this time, the firemen lugged up a hose too. Great. There's always something happening in this building...
As you can see, it's smaller, but still going. I'm surprised. Weather channel sez that 15 minutes out in this weather, you'd get frostbite on exposed skin. No wonder my eyeballs keep tearing.
