Winter: The Inevitable Freeze

The winter winds came early this year, weighting down trees and buildings with thick, heavy, wet snow, breaking everything in their path. Crews worked tirelessly to cut away fallen trees and debris, finally giving up due to the danger it posed to them. Cities and towns had no power for weeks on end after the storms cleared. Gas stations boasted lines extending far beyond the norm of people awaiting fuel services to keep their generators going. Emergency shelters popped up overnight for those with no way to heat their homes. The season of the inevitable freeze was upon us once more.

This year, winter came as every year before. Some people rejoiced at the icy cold weather that blew in, while others took refuge in their homes, hoping it was all a bad dream. For us, winter means that no amount of heat can make us feel warm inside, when just beyond our windows lay the inevitably freezing temperatures that seem to penetrate to the bone. It means spending exponential amounts of extra time getting our kids bundled up til they resembled starfish just so they can waddle around outside for fifteen minutes before getting too cold to play anymore. It means summer is a distant memory.

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For my husband, it means being covered head to toe in hives, and feeling extreme exhaustion every time they begin to go away. He has cold urticaria--he is allergic to the cold.

Ice pallets whip through the frosty minus forty five degree Celsius wind, cutting my face as I walk to work. Drifts provide constant work, as they pile up on the driveway again and again. We sometimes imagine sitting someplace warm, perhaps on a beach somewhere tropical, the waves lapping at our toes as our boys build sandcastles and play alongside the water. Then as if receiving a swift punch to the gut, we are jolted back to the reality of where we are.

Last winter, the snow exceeded seven feet alongside our driveway. It was like driving through a tunnel every day when we would return home from work. A couple years back, it was so cold that the parking meters downtown in the city were breaking off. Every gust of wind makes me wonder how people can be wired to like this. I ask myself constantly, "What is the appeal of dressing like snowmen to go out and build snowmen?" "What is the draw that makes people want to live like this?" To this day, I have never found an answer that is justifiable in my mind.

Sure, I enjoy the warmer winter weather when we take our kids outside and get to delight in the joy and excitement on their faces. Those days just seem few and far between, as the winter winds never seem to really die down where we live in Manitoba, Canada.

The hoarfrost on the trees in the early morning is an incredibly beautiful sight--very picture worthy--until you step outside and a gust of minus forty five degree wind freezes your eyes open and your boots to the ground, and you realize why the trees are covered in tiny icicles like that.

The dream of seeing snow and of experiencing winter for some is a burning desire, but when they picture it, they never picture the temperatures dropping so low that your throat freezes when you take in a breath, or shoveling off their vehicles when they get four feet of snow overnight. They see the photos--those perfectly timed moments when people are ice skating or walking surrounded by large, gently falling snowflakes--the photos taken the one nice week we get during winter when conditions are optimal and we've waited for months to venture out of our homes.

Winter--it's beautiful, it's majestic, it's breathtakingly peaceful. Before you know it, if you're anything like me, you almost forget that three days prior your hands took an hour to work again after shoveling the driveway, and that in two days time, your pants will freeze to your legs and you will struggle to use the bathroom. You almost forget, but almost doesn't count.

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