How Would You Handle Negative Fifty-Nine Degree Outside Analysis

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Dan Joling asks “How would you handle negative fifty-nine degrees outside?” Most would consider just staying inside, but some can’t. Some have jobs, others like kids have to go to school to get there education. Unless they stay home, therefore the parents would have to go shopping for food at the local grocery store.

In the paragraph that I read was about cold it could get down to in Alaska. Cynthia Erickson owns the local grocery store and she tells us readers what her worries are about it, she is worried about furnace operating correctly in the cold weather. She says despite even the cold weather she opened her store but even twenty-five minutes later a customer finally shows up. Cynthia states that she watches the weather in advance to

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