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I was looking through the fence at the cows. The fence was just even with my mouth...So of course I wrapped my mouth around it..I couldn't open my mouth to yell for help..Eventually I managed to de-ice my mouth and get back home..I remember my feet and legs being numb and my shoulders and hands being so cold..And my mouth being bloody
You must have been terrified. I have never been unable to yell for help.
Most I ever done is lick a metal pole, just to see if I was fast enough to not have it stick. I was 12 at the time. Anyways I too had to rip my tongue tip off the pole (since I was too far from home to ask anyone for hot water) and it bled a bit. Not a fun experience.
I grew up in the Hudson Valley and I remember one cold morning in January of 1961. I was delivering Sunday morning newspapers and came home to find the themometer reading about -38 on my back porch. The official low at the county airport roughly 15 miles southeast was -30. -30 or even -38 is not all that unusual in places like Fairbanks, Great Falls (MT) or (in a nod to Mike76) Chicoutimi but was very, very rare in southern New York.
Odd thing, though. It didn't seem that cold; there was absolutely no wind and the air was so dry you hear yourself squeak when you walked. I wouldn't say I was comfortable, but all the same I didn't think it was as cold as all that.
last month at night it was 15 degrees outside with a light breeze and that felt like the coldest I have ever felt,it was painfully cold,the kind that makes you tense up.I only had on a pullover or a hoodie cause thats all I ever wear in the winter.The lowest I can remember was 11 degrees.
In the winter I try not to go outside at night,but the days are always sunny so they dont feel all that bad.
-20 F in Chicago during an extreme cold snap in January of 1994...the wind chills were near the -50 F to -60 F range and the TV had weather warnings scrolling at the bottom indicating that you shouldn't go outside unless absolutely necessary and "life threatening cold", extreme wind chills, etc etc.
28 degrees F is the lowest temp I've recorded in my backyard since I began measuring the temp in 1980. So that is the lowest temp I've experienced.
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...So of course I wrapped my mouth around it..I couldn't open my mouth to yell for help..Eventually I managed to de-ice my mouth and get back home..I remember my feet and legs being numb and my shoulders and hands being so cold..And my mouth being bloody
Anyways I too had to rip my tongue tip off the pole (since I was too far from home to ask anyone for hot water) and it bled a bit. Not a fun experience. 
