Cold
It's hard to think about much else when the temperature drops below 15F, especially when the wind drops the wind chill below 0F.I couldn't imagine what it's actually like when I didn't live here.
I didn't know the humidity is below twenty percent for weeks at a time, both indoors and out, because the heater runs for most of the day (and night). I didn't know the roads have snow and ice on them for weeks at a time because it doesn't get warm enough for anything to melt. I didn't know it can take 10-15 minutes to get out of your driveway, and that's if your car starts. The cold was an abstract notion, really.
Not any more.
Oh, and add 20" of snow in the last four days. Listen to me: never live on the east side of a Great Lake.
It's also not entirely miserable, though, because the power's still on. As long as the power stays on, everything is livable. Michigan's grid is rated 45th, though, so we seem particularly vulnerable to storms taking out the power. Not this time, though, at least not up to this point.
Here are two more pictures taken while Eli 22.5 was in Switzerland:
New term starts today, so he's back to the grind, but what a trip. It's hard to believe anywhere on Earth could be so beautiful.
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