Coldest I have ever seen

when it looks bright and sunny at first sight, but when you step out it is well below zero (-8 degrees to be precise) - it is not funny. Especially, if you aren't adeuqately layered (somehow I have been too lazy to go and buy a warm coat - which is not easy to find in Austin). Minneapolis is the coldest city in the US... the landscape is white, with grey roads running thru. Why is there no ice on the roads? I am told it gets colder in the evening. That scares me!!

I am travelling with the VP of my company. He has been a serial enterpreneur. Born in NY, he has lived in almost every nook and corner of the US. He was a paper boy when he was 10, and guess where.. in Minneapolis. He used to go out throwing papers at 5 in the morning, when it was 55 degrees below zero - YES, 55 degrees - 'spit used to bounce', he said!! 'and with the wind,' he continued, 'it felt like 75 degrees below zero.' He started his first company when he was 31, in Switzerland - this was about automobile components. Then he started another in France - again related to automobile components. There he faced some problems in managing his inventory. He not only solved the problem for himself, but also started another company that sold this solution to other manufacturing companies (he said its was an Internet company). Currently, he has faith in the capability of the Internet - and so he is in Trilogy.

I dont like cold places. I wonder why companies have huge establishments here?