Frost "Nibble"

Well unfortunately I haven't taken a lot of pictures this week...I will put a few more up from my Chicago trip but other than that not much. :(  I have a few fun stories to tell for this week which should make up for the lack of pictures.

On Monday, I had a meeting to attend at Pike. There were still remnants of a blizzard moving through our city of Grand Forks, meaning there were about 40mph winds and it was probably about -25 degrees outside. I was planning on only wearing jeans, long sleeve shirt, and a light jacket to Pike because I was getting picked up so I wouldn't be outside any more than 15 or 20 seconds. So no need for any snow coat or gloves right??  That ends up being a terrible mistake....

So I get picked up and the five of us in the car decide we want to stop and get food before our meeting which was scheduled to start in about 30 minutes.  Keep in mind its windy, blowing snow, and super cold. We drive about 2 miles to a little sandwich place, and stopping us from getting into the parking lot was a huge pile of snow, probably about 2 feet high and 10 feet long.  Our wonderful driver (nothing against him :P) decides to try to truck it through this mound of snow with his little 2 door car (talk about crammed in the back seats). We get about halfway through and the car tires sink right into the snow, putting us up on a nice pedestal with the tires spinning. So now we're stuck in the middle of this big patch of snow, and I'm only wearing jeans and a light jacket, and Sperry's for shoes. We all hop out and start working away at getting free of this mess we have put us in.  Bare hands digging through snow, wind hitting my face, really not something ANYONE should be doing. 

We're outside for about 10 minutes and I give up and can't take it any longer...I run to the sandwich place to get some place warm. My hands are burning and my ears are frozen solid. Every part of my body aches of cold.  Long story short, we finally get the car out about an hour and a half later thanks to a truck that was driving by. We chained up with him and he pulled us out. So, except for that first 10 minutes I was outside, the remainder was spent in the sandwich place watching the other guys try to get the car out. They were properly dressed unlike myself so they could handle being outside. 

For the rest of that evening, my hands burned, and the pain never went away. I was starting to get worried :/ I know it takes awhile for them to warm back up but not 4 hours later. When I wake up the next morning, three of my fingers on my right hand are numb and tingly. There wasn't any purple or blue coloring...just numb as if you had bruised your finger nail. I went to the doctor  the next day (Wednesday) and he said that is wasn't very bad and gave it the name "Frost Nibble". I had just damaged the nerves in my fingers. 

Well I think that one story gives me enough to talk about this week without boring everyone :P  Of course the one week I manage not to fall on my butt I instead almost freeze my hands off.  Not sure which one I would rather have happen to me... embarrassing moment or lose a finger?

On a more positive note, yesterday I heard the first form of life other than us up here in ND!! Birds were chirping as I walked to class and it was the first noise other than cars and wind blowing I have heard since November!! Hopefully this is a sign that Spring is around the corner...no more of these - degree days. Time for warmer weather! (Can't believe I would ever have myself think that)

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Pike house we stopped at on our way to Chicago!

Thanks for following and not making this a waste of my time. :)

Cameron

Did I forget to mention I walked into a Subway for the
first time??

Just a little banner I made...I will talk about it more next week.

Lake Michigan...kinda looks the ocean doesn't it?