Holy cow is it ever windy here!! As powerfully muscled and tall as I am (don’t laugh), I am getting blown about by the enormous invisible mouth that is shooting +30km winds all over the city. It’s especially bad on Donald & Graham and Donald & Stradbrook (respectively, the corner where I make a bus connection and the intersection I walk across to get home). To make it worse, today was supposed to be a wonderful 17 degrees, but instead it was rainy and cold and it could possibly snow overnight. I miss Vancouver!

I used to think that Vancouver was pretty windy, but compared to Winnipeg winds, Vancouver winds are like someone whispering in your ear. And it seems that most of the windstorms that occurred in Vancouver were early in the morning or late at night. Maybe I just wasn’t paying enough attention to them. Here, they are so strong that I fear for my life. Not that the wind will kill me; more like the wind will push me 1 foot too far into the path of an oncoming vehicle.

Oh, I saw this really funny postcard today (this is my rendition of it, don’t want to be slapped with a copyright lawsuit now do I?):

Whoever designed this card is pretty clever, b/c they’re getting paid almost a buck for every card they sell, and it’s just a blank white card with one line of text. There’s another card, with the caption “Winnipeg at night.” Guess what that looks like.

I love this city and the people–a reminder to the Pegger blog audience that feels I’m berating your city. Though I must say, sometimes Winnipeg in the winter does look like that postcard…