It is -22 Celsius here this morning including the wind chill, and a little blazing colour seems like a good way to start the day, along with a beaker of espresso and a good book, thermal underpinnings, woolly socks and my favorite shawl. Beau is not impressed and is snoring gently on the sofa with his blankie.
It will be much colder tonight, and a severe weather warning has been issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada. Another whopper of a storm will begin some time this evening and continue until early Monday with at least 16 inches of heavy snow, high winds (up to 48 mph.) and no visibility to speak of. Hydro has advised that there will be downed trees and power outages. Here we go again.
There is no point in starting to dig ourselves out again until the storm has passed, and our snow blowers and shovels are ready to go. We will all be outside together on Monday morning, enthusiastically flinging snow about and keeping a watchful eye on each other for signs of fatigue and physical distress.
This will be the second big "snowing and blowing" in four days. Where on earth are we going to put the white stuff this time? Snow banks here are already almost Himalayan in height, and throwing anything up on them is going to be a challenge.
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Hunkered down here too. Snow's not coming (we have plenty) but the cold ... there's talk of minus-40 tomorrow night. I expect the little deer up the road won't survive much longer even though we have been taking oats to it.
Amazing to think of your environment these days. Hope there won;t be much more snow.
Warnings for a two day snow has fallen short and instead today, day 2, there is rain turning what was once fluffy into a frozen mess. I could use a bunch of orange tulips to share a vase of pussy willows.
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