It came down out of Saskatchewan on a Tuesday night like a freight train. By Wednesday morning, the radio in Bismarck was saying thirty-one below on the farm roads east of Harvey. Fifty-five below with the wind. The kind of cold that freezes your nostrils shut on the first breath and makes your car door handle burn your bare fingers.The kind of cold that kills people out here.Mom didn’t answer her phone Wednesday evening.I didn’t worry much at first. She’s eighty-two. She falls asleep in her chair watching Lawrence Welk reruns on the public station. Sometimes she leaves the phone in the bedroom and can’t hear it ring from the living room.READ MORE BELOW..
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