Everything moves real slow when it's forty below
After a long winter, spring is finally starting to appear. I know for you folks on the east coast it’s been a long snowy winter.
You have my deepest sympathies.
This winter in Alberta wasn’t all fun and games. A few weeks ago, We had to endure (again) minus forty weather. I think Sam Roberts said it best in his song "The Canadian Dream".
During this song the words ”Everything moves real slow when it's forty below” are stated over and over.
I was still living in New Brunswick when I first heard this song and didn’t really understand what theses words meant until I experience extreme cold weather for myself.
As I drove slowly to work that day (My car and everyone else’s only being able to go 85 km/h on the highway since our engines couldn’t handle the cold) I enjoyed the beautiful glow of the city lights through the ice fog.
Once I arrived in the city the traffic volume was significantly lower as some people chose to stay home rather than brave the ice-cold weather. A sidewalk that would normally be filled with pedestrians is virtually empty. Who could blame them?
I for one am welcoming the springtime weather. Unfortunately it's not summer yet.
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Don't stop now. I lived four years in Whitecourt and I loved it. Tell us some good news.
Here's a thought. If HELL and CANADA were part 'rock/paper/scissors', who would win?
Would hell, with it's fire and brimstone, melt Canada's ice cold -40 degree weather, and it's beautiful icey cold beers and glaciers?
Or would Canada, with glowing hearts whom we have all seen rise, 'cold shower' Hell to the point of annihilation???? Who would survive this battle royale.
Man, it sure is cold up there in Alberta eh!
Its a dry cold in Alberta, where we have a wet cold. 40 below there is like 25 below here and, when you get that cold there, you don't get much wind where here that damp wind will cut you in half with a really cold wind chill facter.