With temperatures dipping as low as -50 with wind chill on Monday and Tuesday, Clevelanders resorted to bundling up and bunkering down as we waited for the arctic cold to release its grip on our city.

Today, as temps climb to a balmy 20 degrees, we can look back on the recent blast and chuckle at the various things we did to survive.

Here are some of our favorites, as told to us, by you via Instagram.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

One reply on “11 Ways You Survived the Polar Vortex in Cleveland”

  1. Many months from now, in hospital maternity wards nationwide, the weather blast may end up being renamed — “Polar Vorsex”.

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