That's what I heard yesterday on the CNN news weather- Russia, Poland and neighboring countries are locked into a sub-artic air mass. I assume Ukraine is one of the neighboring countries- check your maps- it's in between the two, and it was -25 C at 7am Wednesday morning.
Some of the schools have closed until next week Monday because of the cold weather. This is the coldest morning so far, yesterday wasn't much better, the water was froze up to the cows' waterbowls two hours after the guys turned them on for them to drink. In spite of the water restrictions, production continues to rise, we are up to 550 liters a day, with several good-milking cows getting ready to calve soon, so more milk is coming.
Unfortunately, the milkbuyer lady's van would not start this morning, so we haven't sold today's milk yet. Hopefully she gets it going as it warms up a bit during the day. Minus 25 would be no big deal back in Manitoba, but here no one is prepared for it. Of course, for some unknown reason, it is unusually warm- just below freezing lately back at home.
Sunday morning it was freezing in church. Last year it would have been no surprize, we would have been dressed for it. This year however, the church bought a giant electric heater (like 50 x normal size) to heat the room for Sunday services. They had a special electric line with a giant plug installed in the room. Apparently that plug had somehow broken, and they couldn't run it Sunday morning, when it was -16 outside, and had been colder the days before. The rads are pretty much turned off in the room, so everyone was wearing coats, gloves, hats- I was wishing I was wearing corduroy pants and wool socks like I would have put on the year before. Pastor Andrey even preached in his coat, which he said he had never done before. The kids were all in their snowpants, running around after the 2 1/4 hour service, made for soft crashlandings.
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