Peek cold here in the great white north in the past 3 weeks....
-51*C or for those of you to the warm south.... -59.8*F Now that's with the windchill included, but still... It's COLD! 
And those who don't understand laugh at walking backwards into the wind at these temperatures....
Now it all makes sense! That's where the term ICE HOLE comes from! Your back end while walking backward!

Seriously though, I grew up in Minnesota and had my fair share of -40 with 30 mph winds blowing.
It's why I live in Western Washington today (and sinece I was 18)...you don't have to shovel the rain in winter months and if you WANTsnow, its 1 hour away in the cascade mountains!