-3 degrees and a wind so hard it could cut diamonds are not good for your health

I suppose a blizzard is nature's way of occasionally showing who's boss, as it did today.

Its been snowing real hard since noon, so there's about 4 inches of fairydust coating anything and everything which faces the heavens. The raging winds don't help much either, blowing snowflakes into every crevice of your face and right into the bus where you think you're safe from it all. I swear i checked my ears at least ten times to see if they're still in one piece. Ears are always the first to go!

Anyways, i took refuge in the warmth of the trainstation until my ride arrived. I was sitting alongside a dozen or so people - mostly foreign workers from microsoft and the neighbouring factories - all huddled up, shivering and nagging about the snowstorm, when outside we caught a glimpse of the true rugged Norseman. Wearing what seemed to be a light jacket and corduroys, this rough blonde-bearded bloke casually strolled along the aisle eating his apple, without a care for the wave of ice constantly crashing against his brow. He was later joined by his friend, also well over six-foot tall and lightly dressed, who chatted away on his mobile and waved his arms around, as if he were on some Hawaiian beach. No hat. No scarf. No gloves. We shuddered.