It's early May in Yellowknife about 3 am.
Today is the first day the temperature's been above freezing in a couple of weeks.
It got warm for a few days in early April, including a day of rain, but the rest of April's been back down to -10 or so Celsius. Most sane people are staying the fuck away from the ice. Three guys in a pickup truck decided to go drive out on the ice. When the inevitable happened, two got out and are recovering in hospital with mild hypothermia. Not suicide, no, this was no suicide attempt at all, Bubba was just showing off for the girls, you see, Bubba has jumped from this tall suspension type bridge before and swam back to shore, he was just trying to impress Bobby Sue or Ellie May and that nasty old Tennessee undercurrent probably done dragged his dead, hillbilly ass near to Guntersville by now.