Winter Arrives for Rochester's Polar Plunge

Winter Arrives for Rochester's Polar Plunge

This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me want to preserve this history.. The original article was published February 12, 2012 and can be found here.

The Polar Plunge at the 2012 Lakeside Winter Celebration.


   If you're a snow bunny like me, this winter had been pretty darn cruel until today. Over the past 24 hours Rochester got nearly as much snow as it's seen all season--and it landed just in time for the 2012     Lakeside Winter Celebration

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at Ontario Beach. We weren't able to stick around for the wagon rides and the snow sculpting contest, but I did catch the good part--THE POLAR PLUNGE! If you got stuck at home digging out and missed the action, here's a short video...


   Oh, and my thermometer says 21degF/-6degC!

For those of you who aren't really into all the hoo-hoo-shrinking hullabaloo, there was also plenty of horsies...

horsies...

doggies...

doggies...

and hot-cocoa drinking tikes...

...and hot-cocoa drinking tikes.

Fun for the entire family not to be missed next year!

Chris Gemignani

Chris Gemignani

Rochester, NY, USA