there's cold, and then there's cold (minus 11, snow just ending)

I can just now feel my fingertips again. I am Nanook, of the West. The snow today was feather light. Clearing the driveway took only half and hour. And the falling snow filled in my work behind me.

Just now I've done the back porch. I stopped with the job nearly done, because my gloves had become useless against the frigid air. In 24 hours Montreal has been transformed from global warming poster city to slightly south of the North Pole.