You know why they have those cracks in the sidewalk? Because when it's hot in the summer, the concrete in the sidewalk expands, and when it's cold in the winter, it contracts, right? That way there's room for the little cracks in the sidewalk to get bigger or smaller as the concrete blocks contract or expand with the cold or the heat, all respectively. So the concrete doesn't instead crack or buckle as it heats and cools alternately.

Well apparently they do that in roads too, it's just had to see because, well, a little dark crack in black asphalt... you know?

Well it wasn't hard to see today! I'm walking to the bus stop, after seeing numbers on the Weather Channel like 19 and negative 5. Farenheit, of course. For all ye Celciusers out there those would both be a ways below 0.

So I pass a manhole, and right along the center diameter of the manhole, from one end of the street to the other, is a nice, neat, straight crack two freakin' centimeters wide. TWO CENTIMETERS wide.

THAT'S how cold it was today.