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Okay i am awake and on pain killer that won't let me sleep... So... Here Goes!!!

Cold as Hell.

If you trace the word hell it's origin. The Biblical Hebrew vernacular instead of Byzantine interpretation, then Hell is the name of the city dump outside of Jerusalem. In those days if you were wealthy you could afford to be buried in tombs and grave yards. If less fortunate your body would be thrown in the city dump, ie., Hell.

The piles of rotting and rotten bodies in the dump were a breeding ground for disease which was carried into the city by rats and other vermin. To try to keep the disease at bay the bodies were burned. There were enough indigent dead that the dump burned day and night or what seemed like forever. Hence the warning, "You will burn in Hell, if you don't change your ways." Which literally meant that if you didn't change to be more successful you would become indigent and be thrown in the dump instead of being able to afford a nice tomb. Hell is literally where they threw out the dead and set them on fire.

Next, the Hell reference as a degree of coldness. Have you ever gotten really cold? Almost frostbite cold. Guess, what. Instead of feeling just cold or going numb, it BURNS. Especially when trying get circulation going to warm back up. It burns like, well like the piles of bodies on fire in the city dump, or to use the vernacular, it burns like Hell.

So if it is cold enough that exposure would stop the circulation in your extremities so you could get frostbite where your extremity would shrivel up and turn black like it had been burnt, then it is as cold as hell.