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In the bleak mid-winter hundreds of intrepid (insane) and be-costumed Bostonians (and those from the surrounding environs) gathered together on the chilly Nantasket Beach to prove a groundhog isn't the only one who can predict whether we'll have an extended winter.

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Punxsutawney Phil has nothing on the Drowned Hogs when it comes to the lengths taken to prognosticate the weather. While Phil lounges on a velvet-lined tree stump and a fleet of top-hatted handlers gently coax him into making his wintry prediction, members of the Drowned Hogs submit themselves to a plunge in the Atlantic Ocean to find out what February in Massachusetts really feels like. (Hint: Wicked cold.)