CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- This weather is tough, but one Chicagoan has lived through worse.
David Rice grew up in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. When he was a young teen in the early-1980s, there was a span of 30 days when the high was 4 below and the low temperature was minus-49, he said.
That’s something not even Chicagoans have had to endure.
Rice, who travels the world for business, said that coldest day was actually the only day they shut down the schools. He said he and his friends spent the day playing hockey.
Meantime, he continued passing newspapers.
"Sixty dollars a week when you're 13, 14 years old, is a decent haul back then,” he said.
So who's tougher, Chicagoans or Canadians?
"When it comes to cold, I'd have to say Canadians,” Rice said.