[SignalHillHiker]

February... set to tears...

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The pigeons tried to warn us by being creepy.



But some people still dared venture outside.



Even the poorest households in the poorest neighbourhoods had their heat on bust.



Even my neighbourhood local, which is standing-room-only with alcoholics by 10 a.m. on a Tuesday, was closed.



A giant, foreign goose even landed from God-know's-where - the signs were all there.



It got so cold the clouds went away again.







So cold you had to go out at night just to see if it was actually real.





But it was all too real.





The cold stayed so long that, like people with hypothermia stripping off their clothes, we all went outside in madness.







So cold you could just feel when driving that if you hit a bump hard enough your car would shatter into snowflakes.





So cold and grey and gross that the houses were your only confirmation you could still see colours.











So cold that in your diminished state you thought this was hilarious...



So cold that when the sun came out because it was so cold you went outside anyway because your vitamin D deficiency was giving you dark thoughts.











So cold you had to spend hundreds of dollars to replace all the copper pipes in your (relatively young) century-old home with modern ones.



And eat comfort Jerk chicken with mac/cheese burgers.



And the month ended without a sign, without a hint, that spring was anywhere else. It still felt and, as it turns out, was... the middle of winter.