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It was brutally cold at the lakefront this morning for the Penguin Plunge! I don’t know what, exactly, the ambient temperature was, but the gale-force winds made it just barely endurable for spectators. A lot of strangers were huddled together a lot closer than they might have been at a summer event, just to block the wind and keep just a little bit warmer.

I overheard a few people say that it was the coldest Penguin Plunge that they’d remembered in recent years and that they’d never seen winds like that ever.

Here are a couple of pics: One shows Ric diving in, you can tell it’s him by the socks. The other is Ric coming out of the water.

-Bob

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Here’s one of Bob supporting Ric from the warm shoreline.

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