Vancouver to Regina

Got up a little later than I intended to this morning, quickly packed and dashed out to the Airport. Luckily I managed to check in on time at the airport and grabbed a coffee at before I boarded the flight to Regina. The plane was only small but full and we soon we landing in Regina. The pilot put on the seatbelt sign quite early as they were expecting a lot of wind, and even though it was a little bumpy on the way in, it was no worse than many other flights I've taken. A couple of the people on the plane though it was bad though and it was rather quiet for thee last couple of minutes as we landed. Once at the gate you could feel the plane been buffeted by the wind. Apparently we had landed in some of the worst winds in years and it was quite breezy out of the plane. Debbie and Her partner Alan were at the arrivals hall to meet me and we collected my bag and drove into town to have something to eat at a bar which was hidden away in an old warehouse. It looked nothing from the outside but was packed inside. We settled down to some very good beer and a I had a huge plate of local meats and potatoes which was almost Germanic but very tasty. We then took the highway out to their house which is about 50km out of Regina on the Prairies. The land here is flat, very flat, you can see for almost 50km in all directions, apart from Debbie's house which is on the edge of a lake which cuts through the land like a huge crease. This was defiantly the coldest it has been for me and with the wind felt very cold. The wind had in fact been been so bad that a neighbour if theirs had lost his whole shed, this was no small 'shed' either it was huge and had the entire roof ripped of it all that was left were the cars that we once parked in it and the pool table. The roof had dropped about 200m away on the edge of the road way leading around the houses. Many of the houses in the area had suffered wind damage with the shingles and roofing materials ripped off them. Debbie and Allan had old slight damage with a couple of sections of fascia ripped off. Their next door neighbour had had a load of glass veranda panels blown out and the railing were just peeled back like they were made from tin-foil. And we had flown in to Regina in this wind.