In case you haven't seen it, the country is in the grips of a huge cold spell. Our high here today (at least what I saw) was -11°. We have been getting the warnings since Thursday or Friday last week. Schools were closed today as of Friday last week, and they closed school for tomorrow this afternoon.
Last Saturday we had to run to the grocery store to get a few things and to get some stuff for Kris's dad. You would have thought that we were going off the grid. The grocery store was crammed and the shelves were empty, at least of a lot of items, such as bread, yogurt, frozen pizzas, cheese and many of the produce items. Part of the problem, I think, is that the news reported that the Pick N Save stores were going to be closing early, apparently so people didn't have to go out in the cold. Congratulations weather people, you have succeeded in scaring the population. So for about a two and a half day period where the temperature is going to be below zero people freaked out enough to go stock up on food as if there was going to be a nuclear attack and we all had to go underground. I didn't even see this reaction when we were coming up to the Mayan apocalypse. Guess what? By Friday we'll be at 32°. I think you can all make it through this stretch.
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