As thermometers drop across the Northeast and Midwest, bone-crunching blocks and tackles become the norm.
The veterinary bills, plus the shelves of painkillers, antibiotics, syringes, and thermometers, had run into the thousands.
But at the very least it seems sensible to invest in better thermometers.
It is the place where thermometers recorded the lowest ever temperature on Earth - minus 89C on 21 July 1983.
Air temperatures have to be measured by thermometers placed off the ground and shielded from sunlight, according to global meteorological standards.
Thermometers reached the low 80s in parts of southeast Georgia and South Carolina, the 50s in Tennessee and the 30s in Illinois.
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Instant-read thermometers should read the meat's temperature in about 15 seconds and are not designed to stay in the food during cooking.
Every school has now been supplied with thermometers, face-masks and on-call doctors.
They understand the logistics of rectal thermometers: It doesn't work with gloves.
At the Ruijin Hospital in the city's tree-lined, former French Concession area, patients with high fevers and other flu-like symptoms are handed disposable thermometers and masks and ushered in through separate entrances.
Looking at the more recent record, logged as it has been by thermometers, you might hope it could shed light on which of the climate models is closest to being right, and thus what the sensitivity actually is.
My silent digital monologue lead me to wonder what had happened to thermometers filled with shiny but toxic Mercury, watches (with or without hands), cameras with 8mm film, and television sets with vacuum tubes and knobs labeled horizontal hold.
The long corridor, with the nurses' station between the wards, was empty at dawn, too early for the smell of breakfast, for the morning nursing staff to click up and down the corridors with trays of thermometers and medicines, even for the bedpans, which were my responsibility.
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