Living in such a cold region hadn’t been my plan.
To be honest, snow and I aren’t friends, but when you fall in love, the heart has a way of blinding you from the things you don’t like.
My fiance owned a lodge in the area and wanted me to go and join her. She planned to make me part of the enterprise, so I had to compromise and exist with snow for many months in a year. The upside was I got to be part of an excellent wintertime business. Last winter, we were getting less snowfall which was weird, and at first, we didn’t crank up the furnace. We thought this would go on for some time, so our monthly energy costs might be less. But, as much as we loved the low energy costs because of using the furnace less, we worried that a lack of ample snow would keep the guests away. Boy, were we wrong. It seemed the less snow fell, and the use of the furnace was calm before the storm. As I drove back to the lodge after a store run, snow began to fall. This wasn’t the average snow because it was accompanied by winds that kept getting fierce with each passing minute. I had to turn up the AC in the car so as not to get too cold as I raced to get back on time. My fiance was already working on cranking up the furnace when I finally arrived because we were in the midst of a fierce snowstorm that no one had seen coming.