Well another 8" of the white stuff overnight and the country is paralysed. Barely anything moving, no trains and just the odd 4WD. It is so deep most people don't realise that they are actually acting as snow ploughs with their front spoilers piling up snow. Efforts to move a van around the corner have made 2 hours and about 10 yards so far.
The trip to the dentist was hard going, sometime up to my knees in snow but as he had made it in it was incumbent on me to do so as well. The Wisdom tooth extraction was difficult and I can really feel it as there was much pulling and grinding and plenty of extra local anaesthetic which is now wearing off. It has left a pretty badly damaged mouth and local area but plenty of pain killers appear to be sorting that out. We are waiting for the snow to stop a little later today then the temperatures will plummet to -6 to -9 Celsius which is about 16 degrees Fahrenheit if I remember rightly!
No trains at all today again and it is amazing that we have this much snow this early in the season. It reminds me of when I was a kid. We don't do snow in England and we have no investment in the sort of kit that many others have as we don't normally get this sort of winter...
Anyway, no more tooth work for me until the new year - I'm going to see my dentist in March for a check up and see how things are. For the rest of the day no hot drinks or food and starting tomorrow the old salt water rinses and slowly get back to normal. I have to say that the Root Canal work might have been preferable but looking at the state of my tooth it sure needed sorting out.
I need to go and get some more tablets in a minute as these are wearing off and I feel like an opponent of Mike Tyson must have done.
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