Psychotic prairie barbers

We're currently getting creamed by an Alberta clipper--nasty sorta storm that blows out of the prairies.

You don't normally hear about these much in Ottawa--not sure if it's just that the term's not much in vogue around here or that the storm track really normally does most of its storming in the Northern US and then peters out just in the lee of the great lakes. In any case, when the radio announcer issues his warming, I have visions of some wild-eyed prairie barber, hell-bent to give us all brush cuts or some damn thing.