Winter...Is it over yet?

Please tell me the end is in sight?

I hate the cold. After the blizzard last week, we've had a crazy cold spell. Not that it's ever warm here in the winter but I can handle -20C, although I prefer -15C and warmer. It's the -30C and feeling colder than -40C with the windchill that I absolutely cannot stand. Not only is is colder than heck for people, it's just too cold for vehicles.

Chris got called into work yesterday morning. Something had to be attended to and the closest on shift employee was over an hour away. Chris was only 10 minutes away, so he had to respond. It was at 8:30am which is not bad unless you were working nights the evening before like Chris had been. He didn't get in until almost 4am so responding to a problem at 8:30am was not on his list of things to do that morning. That list pretty much just had sleep on it, maybe a bathroom break and some manly scratching, but mostly just sleep. Chris was also pretty sure that the work vehicles were in the city being used as well, which was also a problem. He hopped in our van, drove to the office to discover, as he had thought, there were no work vehicles available so he had to use our van to attend the problem.

Anyways three hours later he made it back home and the other employee who had been an hour away was with him. Chris was lucky because after he went back to the office and went to start the van again, he heard a pop and saw fluid gushing out onto the ground. Our power steering hose blew. He tried to put it back on but it was too cold to be fiddling around with it, so he got a ride home. We went back to the office last night to try again it just blew again right away, he just couldn't get underneath well enough to get it tightened on well. He limped the van home last night after work and tried yet again this morning. No luck. He's since limped it to the local mechanic who is crazy busy because of the cold. Cars just hate the cold. Hopefully they'll be able to get to the van today so that it's ready for tomorrow since Chris has a dentist appointment. He had one today too, but we had to cancel. I hate doing that, after they've already called and confirmed and everything. I suppose with this cold they've had their fair share of cancellations though.

Stupid cold.