Where I live, it has been in the single digits for a week, and teens for a week. I wore a coat exactly TWO times. that was to shovel 8 in snow for an hourish. I work in another county, drive 7 days a week. Not ONCE have I wore a coat. I am also barelegged, wear shorts this entire cold...
When I first heard about this story, I envisioned that the house was very isolated. !!!!!!! I just saw a pic of it and surrounding neighbors homes which look practically abutted next to house.
Makes no sense that three large grown men froze by being locked outside, without something hindering...
What was mentioned as in the backpack? I thought it was two computers? I wonder if one was work computer, which, if so, would be unusual, at least to me, to drag a work computer along after work to meet a friend.