I think I just understood why Americans are so afraid of a "nanny state." The nannies here are psychotically overprotective.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/nyregion/central-park-ice-fest-canceled-cold.html

Come on, it was -40 with windchill in Ottawa last year, and we went to the ice fest, and we liked it! (Okay, we didn't like it all that much, but we went.)