Everyone will be at the grocery store. The cousin you haven’t seen in 3 years will hug you. Gah!
There will be no bread, no milk, no eggs. Anywhere.
No one owns gloves, except work gloves. I went out to check the garage cats and wore my garden gloves.
School let out early. Won’t go back til next week. Oh, joy.
Frozen pipes. Son-of-a-wrek already has some. Guess where the sleep over will occur? Eh, don’t matter, they already eat here every dang night.
DO NOT drive anywhere, people are crazy on the roads.
Of course Granny gotta go pick up her prescription. Not to good driving in a spring rain. Winter mix gonna blow her mind.
Cancel any unnecessary appointments. Take off work, everyone else will.
Cook…chili, soup, anything warming. Make hot chocolate.
Oh, crap. Someone run to Dollar General get some mini marshmallows. And milk, if there is any. Just in case.
It’s how we roll,
down in this here place.
(Alas, my kale gonna freeze tonight, got the garden gloves handy, maybe I should go cut it all.)
Depending where the pipes are located, I would look for some foam insulation at a hardware store. I had this issue many years ago and once I put the insulation on it never happened again.
Some of my pipes are right near the outside wall in an above ground basement. And it gets really, really cold here in PA.
When I was out shopping earlier today we were in the middle of a cold snap, with a temp of -9°C (16°F 'Murrican) and a wind chill of -11°C. I wore no gloves and a fairly light jacket. I would have worn my sandals because they’re so easy to put on and take off, except I get tired of being ridiculed by strangers for wearing sandals in the winter, even in this here supposedly polite Canuckistan. We Canucks are made of stern, hardy stuff!
It doesn’t do this often enough. Foam insulation is a bit late for my sons house.
My pipes are insulated.
Son-of-a-wrek skates closer to the edge than I do. He has this every year at least once.
By Saturday I’ll be running air conditioning.
In Arkansas, if you don’t like the weather, no matter it will be different tomorrow.
It’s warmed up to a pleasant -8 C, from the chilly -30 we had last week. Warm enough to snow the past couple of days.
However, unlike Wolfpup, I always have toque, gloves and scarf in the winter. You never know when you might need to walk somewhere. Don’t want frost-bitten fingers.
I’ve been to Arkansas a least three times in the last ten yeas and loved it.
We stayed in the upper northeastern corner in the area around Horseshoe Bend.
Visited a lot of the different towns around that area over the years. Calico Rock, Mountain Home, Ash Flat, & Pocahontas are some of the towns I recall.
It’s a two day trip by car from where I live so we saw a lot of lovely country along the journey.
Last trip was 2022 I think.
Always wanted to explore a bit further west but ran out of time.
You got me there! I should explain, for those unfamiliar with the climate in Canada, that we have three kinds of winters. There’s winter on the west coast, where the wimps complain if the temperature falls below freezing. There’s winter in southern Ontario, which is generally moderate and lately has had very little snow.
And then there’s prairie winter. I found prairie winters to be crisp and dry, and TBH despite their attempts to kill me I’ve always regarded winter on the prairies as rather beautiful and quintessentially Canadian. The low humidity makes them relatively more tolerable than a deep cold snap in southern Ontario. But damn they can be cold! January in Saskatoon would be a good place for NASA to test robotic equipment they’re intending to send to Pluto!
Montreal’s not very cold lately, though we had a bit of a dip to -14C or so. Looks to be -6/-7 most of the week ahead for daytime hours. A light dusting of snow, only a few cm total ground cover. I keep getting startled by headlines from places that don’t seem far away from here who are having much more severe weather.
