Cryptic:That was hours, and many inches of snow ago, Dulce. This is the worst winter in my memory. I'm beginning to have nightmares about glaciers and icebergs, and frostbite, and hypothermia.
Usually I love where I live but recently I've come to regard it as a horrible polar hellhole.
Nightmares, oh boy, that's not good. Your subconscious has enough sense to be afraid of this life-threatening cold!
I have only experienced such extreme cold for one brief period long ago while traveling in Scandinavia in the dead of winter (there's a reason for that saying!) where once I had to wait outside for 30 minutes for someone to return and unlock a door (long story) or make the long trek back to town only to have to come right back again. I chose to wait. That cold wind made such a mockery of my thick coat and thick layered clothing, I could feel it in my bones and vital organs, and realized, "there really is a finite number of minutes my body can put up with this and not shut down." Extreme cold is scary.