I kind of feel like when I was a kid, schools never called for -20, which happened more often back then. I remember sitting in the classroom in my coat and hat because it was so cold, but we were there! Hah, but old man complaints aside, it is better for the kids for them to call it when it's that cold, so good for them!
Interesting songs. I'm not familiar with either of those artists. I do need to make more of an effort to listen to recent music.
I don't usually listen to new music by choice. I don't hate it when it is sprung on me like this though. I just remember more snow back in the day, I don't remember the brutal cold temps like this. I feel like the polar vortex is just something we started seeing the last couple of decades. I could be wrong though.
I don't know, it seems like it was cold as hell and we also had tons of snow for all of winter, not the snow/melt cycle that happens all winter these days. But yeah, I could be wrong. Memory is funny that way. I do think I've read the polar vortex is a recent phenomenon caused by climate change.