Speak for yourself, for I am from Canada.
That sounds positively balmy compared to our prairie winter.:)
Seriously, the winter of 1979-1980 was a killer in the Midwest. The polar jet stream mainlined super cold arctic air directly from the North Pole. We had three continuous weeks in January-February where the average daily temperature never got above -25 degrees F and nighttime temps averaged -40 degrees F. After three weeks of this, everyone wanted to move to Texas or Florida.