Nobody in mid-April is going to want to read this but…..snow. Our snow was almost gone, grass was showing, streets were clear. A tad early for this time of year considering where we live. Which is the northern part of Manitoba. We were so happy. We were going to break out the lawn furniture. We were using the bbq already. My son was riding his bike and his scooter. We opened windows for fresh air, had the furnace shut off during the day.
But then, someone played an evil trick on us. The storm of storms, it snowed and the wind blew continuously and powerfully for thirty six hours!! All day and all night and all day. It came at us from the sky, it came at us sideways and it was even picked up off the ground and thrown in our faces.
It’s finally stopped, the sun is supposed to shine later this afternoon. The city’s been almost completely shut down. We don’t do “snow days” often up here. We’re tough, we’re northerners and so it takes a lot for school administrators to say okay enough, we’re closed. But they did. Businesses also closed. Ninety centimetres of white stuff is what we’re digging out from.
I want to put it behind us, I feel almost traumatized. I can’t wait to see the grass again. In a couple of weeks I guess.
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