A spring snow joke

I just got off the phone with a friend living in northern Minnesota, near the Canadian border. She said that, since early this morning, the snow has been nearly waist-high and is still falling. The temperature is dropping way below zero and the north wind is increasing to near-gale force. Her husband has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and just stare. She says that if it gets much worse, she may have to let him in.