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Originally Posted by speeder
Those stories are nothing…every winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, people get drunk and drop through holes in the ice on snowmobiles and wind up in the lake or river. Other people put on a light jacket to run to the liquor store or to get cigarettes and wind up in the ditch on an icy country road. They will start walking for help and then be found a couple of hundred yards away, frozen to death, face down in the snow.
Alcohol has a funny way of making people underestimate cold. Weather is dangerous, everywhere.
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And on top of that, people think that alcohol will warm you up, but it actually makes you cooler and more susceptible to cold.