People have been freaking out the last couple of days in my part of the world… About the weather that is.

• It will be the snowstorm of the century!

… the weather channel lady must have said, but I wouldn’t know since I have decided not to watch tv anymore, unless chéri watches it, or Mads appears on screen. I would have said that I don’t turn it on anymore (the tv, not chéri, who I do turn on just alright… or do I?) but I still have a thing for Stingray’s free Pop Adult music stream.

Anyway, everybody was talking about the upcoming mega storm, and I didn’t pay much attention to all the fuss, since weather people seem to have trouble looking out of the window and telling us what they see, so trusting what their Magic 8 Ball told them about next Sunday…

People on my street started barricading their apartments, and building up stocks of food and water. My landlords (living downstairs) packed up the pickup truck and left for the South, hoping to make it in time. They even left us the key to their apartment, in case we needed to hide in their basement or something…

I lived in Fermont, not long but I did anyway. (I recommend Googling Fermont, it is a fascinating place… Almost as exciting as the Danish Alps. But not quite) So snow, snowstorms and “frette en tabarnak” are common things for me. (I have pictures of me, standing beside the kid’s pool my mom had filled with warm water… I am wearing my winter boots, which I had to keep on all the way from the house to the pool, since the ground didn’t always unfreeze during the short summer!) all that to say that I don’t get impressed that easily by winter’s up and downs…

Ok, just a short “aparté” because I did Google Fermont myself, just to see what you would get if you Goggled it, and I couldn’t help but check Google Maps. Here’s how far North Fermont is…

I have said this before, but it was a long time ago, so for the sake of the one-time readers, I’ll repeat myself. Here, we don’t usually measure the distance from point A to point B in kilometers. We measure in time… Even if you ask how far, or what is the distance between … and … you are more than likely going to get an answer in hours and minutes.

A Montréal-Québec trip takes about 3h (Google says 2h55, but I decided to round it up), or 268 km for the distance purists. That is if you travel on the North shore of the St-Lawrence River. By the South shore’s highway, you can save a few km, but the road is just planin boring. Montréal-Fermont is a 15h30 trip, but I’d add a few hours to rest a little. 1219 km. That’s far!

Anyway… so I was thinking that by then, I used to live a little closer to Denmark, and I widened my map view… And I found out that my browser had put a star on DK. That doesn’t come from me, since I don’t even know how to do that. You just can’t have a fixation on anything without the Internets rubbing your nose in it afterwards anymore…

So… What was I talking about? Oh yeah, the mega storm… I just wanted to calm any worries from people overseas who might have heard about the imminent cataclysm.

I am doing just fine! When I walked out this morning, it was a bit snowy, a bit windy, but nothing stunning… It is not even “frette” (on my own coldness scale).

Talk about getting lost along the way…

 

Maps: courtesy of Google Map….  As always 🙂