Typical MN Weather.

     It's almost 11:30pm here in the wonderful state of Minnesota, and I just got back in from discharging a slew of patients- that means walking them in wheelchairs out to their vehicles.  Let me tell you, scrubs are not the most insulating material to be bundled in for this line of work, or at least this portion of the it- out in the winter weather with sub-zero temps and plenty of wind, and only scrubs to protect me from the cold. 

     I feel like Grandpa Simpson when he got lit on fire in that old Treehouse of Horror episode, and his response is a sad, "Ohh, I'm still cold."  

 

     Really, this is a potential job hazard of working at a hospital doing patient care and I have reason to believe that all my potential future progeny are now cryogenically frozen inside me as I type this.  Frozen nards are a scary thing! 

     SERIOUSLY!!!  Scrubs are the equivalent of tissue paper clothes!  It's like wearing colored air.  I may never feel toasty-warm again.  Each person discharged is worth between 5 and 15 minutes of freezy, windy parking lot goodness.  Hopefully, there'll be no more discharging people tonight, because nobody likes a frosty nut-patch, and I don't think I can handle another dose of Jack Frost kicking me in the everything.

     Working in the middle of this:

N.O.A.A. Warning -
Event: Wind Chill Warning
Alert: ...DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS WILL PERSIST THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING...
TEMPERATURES WILL ONLY RISE A FEW DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON...BUT
REMAIN BELOW ZERO. EVEN A 10 TO 15 MPH WIND WILL CREATE WIND CHILL
VALUES BETWEEN 20 TO 40 BELOW ZERO ACROSS THE REGION. THE COLDEST
WIND CHILL VALUES WILL OCCUR ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL
MINNESOTA. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL WELL BELOW ZERO OVERNIGHT...AND WITH A 5 TO 10 MPH WIND...WIND CHILL VALUES WILL CONTINUE IN THE 25 TO 45 BELOW RANGE.
...WIND CHILL WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST TUESDAY...
* WIND CHILL VALUES...BETWEEN 30 AND 45 BELOW INTO TUESDAY MORNING.