I now have a new definition of cold. Forget Jack from Titanic and his puny not much bellow freezing hypothermia. Today in Winnipeg it was -21 with the wind chill taking it down another 12 or 15 degrees, and these are in new world Celsius. This is manly hypothermia weather. Walking out of a building into that takes your breath away and gives you an immediate ice-cream headache. It’s quite something to experience and the locals say you never really get used to it being this cold.
It’s been a great trip, very productive, fun people and from what we’ve seen of it an interesting city. Tonight there is curling going on, it was described to me today as the perfect Canadian sport; you can do it while drinking beer. It will be fun to go along and watch for an hour and have a drink.
One thing of interest is that there are far fewer SUV’s and 4WD than you’d see in Bellevue. And despite piles of snow around the city that are the size of a small office block and people having to use their snow blowers to get back into their garage an hour after they last used it, the factory here did not shut down for a single day this winter. Yes there are no hills, and yes live here and you know it’s coming, but somehow they survive.
This has been fun, I really like this new role I’m finding myself in at work. Plus I’ve discovered the local Fort Garry Pale and Pilsner is really good.
