While you’re snowed in today, playing with your kids and praying that you don’t get caught in a rolling power outage, check out this article by Clayton McCleskey, who attended Highlander School in Lake Highlands before going to Richardson High’s magnet program. He makes the point that Dallasites overreact to the cold, not because 20 degrees here is different than 20 degrees in Chicago or Europe, but because we pop briefly from our car to the door, whereas they walk to their destination, spending time out in the elements. You’ll enjoy his stuff, read his Dallas Morning News article here.