It’s the nothingness.
The whiteness.
The endless…ness.
Stretching on beyond the human imagination.
Desolation of the soul!
OH MY GOD!!!!
The Mighty Boosh – Tundra Rap
And that was pretty much the story of my walk into town today. Except with less dancing, and more nervous shuffling over icy surfaces.
Yeah, it’s starting to get cold even here in North Texas — and by very cold here we mean the teens (as a low), when I gather it’s a great deal colder than that further north. On the bright side, most houses further north are a damn sight better insulated than our house here. I suspect I’m going to be making…. something… that uses the oven. All day. It’ll help keep the house warm. ;)
I should add — teens fahrenheit. I’m a Euro Celsius girl myself, but nobody here uses that so I’ve had to get used to the old-style scale. 14F (which is what they’re predicting for us overnight) is -10C — that’s cold even for Switzerland, where I grew up, and they at least know how to build houses. :P
I shouldn’t complain about the weather so much. Norwich has it much better than most of the country but we Brits aren’t much used to this in recent years. We’ve gotten used to mild winters. It has been snowing over the day again too, to keep everything topped up. I’m a Celsius lad myself.
We’ve apparently nicked someone elses weather. Greenland and Newfoundland are freakishly warm at the moment. Everything is all messed up.
I used to live in Cambs, so I know what it’s like. I’m amazed you have snow — I’ll be even more amazed if it stays for any length of time. I take it the transport system has ground to a halt. ;)
Round here the buses are doing their best. The airports are having a lot of trouble, as you’d expect. Not sure about the trains.
Norfolk is the driest county, so we aren’t getting big snowfalls, but there hasn’t been a thaw for ages, so it is slowly building up, and getting flattened into this never-ending layer of think icy stuff.