My camera battery just died, so I can’t post a picture, but things out there are still blizzarding and show no signs of abating. The winds are so strong (and erratic) that there are strange drifts and peaks of snow that are several feet high in some places, but also a few tiny spots of ground that are barely covered. Mostly it looks like we’ve had about a couple of feet at least so far, and it might continue snowing until 6pm this evening. Erdos is slowly getting buried. We are hunkered down with Tamari almonds and chocolate, gazing out the windows mesmerised.

We just saw a tiny little sparrow flitting about in the backyard and I marvelled at its resilence. I wonder how many animals die during snowstorms like this one. There is a stray cat we sometimes see behind the apartment — where is it now? Where would it go for shelter? And then there are the human animals. The city has emergency procedures to try to get as many homeless people indoors as possible during snowstorms, but it is difficult to imagine that they manage to help everyone… I’ve never felt more blessed by my warm house.