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Did Old Man Winter ever decide to visit us in a hurry. One day it was fairly nice out and the next day we went into the 'deep freeze'. Monday morning I was up and ready to go at 5:20 a.m. When I checked my weather gauge it was showing -38C with the wind chill so I dressed appropriately as I headed out to deliver the papers.

I have a 4 block walk that normally puts me facing right into the prevailing North West winds and this day was no exception. The wind was howling down from the arctic right into my face. Even though I had on a nice fur hat and had it wrapped around to cover most of my face, I still got quite cool. I certainly was happy to finally take a corner and get the wind in my back.

Tuesday morning wasn't much better but at least we didn't have as much wind.

This morning my paper delivery guy was a little bit late, but not overly. The weather gauge showed about the same for temperature as Monday (ie -38C), but I do believe the wind was a bit stronger. This time the wind was coming more from the East so I didn't have as long to walk into the wind. It still was chilly, but not overly.

The biggest problem is that we got a fair good dump of snow overnight and of course I was out before anyone had cleaned up their walks. It makes it so awkward walking in the deeper snow when it's dark and you can't really see the lay of the land. Of course very few people actually leave an outside light on at night. Even a measly 25 watt bulb would at least give me a clue what is in my way when I walk up to the mailbox. Oh well, in about 6 months I'll have daylight at my delivery times so no sense worrying about it now.

With plowing thru the snow this morning I took about an extra 10-15 minutes to do my route. The extra exertion plowing through the snow made it so I was almost at the point of sweating by the time I made it home even though the temperature was down in the -38 C area. I just loosened off my hat a bit and that cooled me down in a rush.

Hopefully by tomorrow everyone was out and got a bit of shovelling done. Mind you it has been blowing all day today, so even if they did shovel it is likely to have blown in again by morning. At least at the time I'm out (05:30 a.m. to 06:30 a.m.) there is very little traffic so I can walk down the middle of the road.