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Cold is When You Write About It

Up here this week, it got a whole lot colder really, really quickly. To explain again for those of you in the southern USofA,  Cold is when it’s nearing -50 degrees with the windchill and your exposed skin can get frostbite in less than 10 second. Cold is when you get a ‘weather warning’ on your phone, and it’s just to tell you that it’s going to be dangrously cold. Cold is when you can freeze your actual eyeballs   (okay, so I googled that and you can’t actually do it.  But if you could, you would here this week) That’s cold. So, it’s cold here. And inevitably, people say things like “I can’t believe how cold it is!” Really?  You can’t?  If you moved here from Miami this summer or were born this past year, than you can be excused for thinking that it wouldn’t get this cold. But if that is not the case, I can’t help but ask “Were you here last year?  Or every year before that?” I admit, even I (who tend to take the ‘this is Canada and it gets cold here so suck it up’ road) am willing to admit that -50?  That’s friggin stay inside under the blankets and wait for spring kinda cold. But, well, cold weather happens here.  It happens every winter.  Sometimes more, sometimes less, sometimes it lulls you into a false sense of security  at +5 before biting you in the ass with -35 a day later…. but it happens. And on my way home today as I…