[combat_boots]

“-40 wind chill”

Ouch. You’d have 3 minutes before frost bite starts setting in.

Stay warm.

There just isn’t anything quite like a big, pretty snow. Everything’s entirely different, even the sounds or lack thereof: like hearing your favorite color. For just that one second when you perk up and listen to to the hush of a snow, you don’t even breathe. And if it’s still snowing, or blowing, you can hear the snowflakes falling on trees, twigs and ground.

[Hunton Peck]

Fortunately, the wind has died down now, so it's safe to go out, but the temp's dropping. Mid-teens below tonight is the forecast.

There sure is nothing quite like the sound of a world covered in new-fallen snow. So quiet, yet, as you say, the smallest sounds you can hear are so distinct.