In Maine we have a thing called frost heave. I’ve seen it in the rest of the country. Just never heard the term.

It’s where the pavement gets so cold the pavement buckles.

Our parking lot in the front of our restaurant is asphalt. And tonight the section right in front of the front door developed frost heave.

We discovered this at 4:55 as we were opening for dinner.

The problem.

The front had to be forced open.

And closed.

Like seriously I thought someone would hurt themselves trying to open the door.

And most people gave up trying to close the door.

There is an outer and inner door but with both doors open, the temperature in the lobby was about 40 degrees tonight.

The temperature outside at 6:00 was 12*.

The host and I stood there for the first hour till the first seating was in.

I couldn’t ask her to be there longer, so I acted as host until everyone else was seated. She helped in the dining room etc.

I finally sat down around 8:45. Shivering.

It’s now 1:00 am and I am still cold.

I had my heat in the car on at full for the entire 45 minute drive home. My fingers were numb.

Even a bourbon at work didn’t help.

A bourbon at home hasn’t helped.

Hopefully, the 10 degree warm up tomorrow will help.