Who Turned Down the Temperature?

Okay, I take back all the worrying and complaining I did about the warm winter!

It feels like winter now, all -4°C of it. It snowed Thursday night and yesterday. Not enough to really amount to anything but it has been white and pretty and then today... yikes! It has been very cold and very, very windy! Not at all a pleasant day. It is clear, but that is as far as pleasant can go. That is not saying much now.

Tomorrow's forecast: clear, then becoming cloudy in the early evening. It may snow overnight but while it won't amount to anything, it may freeze and cause all sorts of problems for the morning commute. Wonderful. Just what we need. Nothing like starting a Monday off on that sort of note! As I have payroll to run and don't want to wait until 0930 to begin, I will have to brave the roads and hope that what is being predicted will not come to pass.

I started this posting right before heading over the squadhouse. I am happy to say that we had a good night. Considering we had Montville and a portion of Boonton (possibly) under our wheels, this is saying something. We really could have been slammed. As it was, we'dve had no calls if Montville did not have their installation dinner last night. Oh, the irony!

As it was, the night might have been a bit easier had it not been so bloody COLD! It was -8°C, around 18°F... not a warm, pleasant experience by any means! The first call, a young person having an asthma attack, was not a problem (although had it been more serious than it was, the cold air could have really made it a very bad call). That was at roughly 2230. The older patient at 0445 was not a good deal, having to take him out onto a freezing cold stretcher and out again at the hospital. Both seem to have made it with no issues. But we were freezing and it could not have been fun for either of them.

BBBBR-R-R-R-R-R!