Most people around Britain will have looked out their windows this week and be buzzing. Sure, while the falling snow might have looked pretty in some places, it was absolutely blanketing in other areas, making the journey to work just that little bit more difficult.
But however you get to your job, it probably pales in comparison to nurse Kat Mayer, who walked 10 miles in the blistering weather to get to the hospital for a shift.
The journey took her three hours, with Kat telling Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on This Morning: "I initially started off thinking it would take half-an-hour.
"Suddenly it dawned on me that the hospital is at the top, near the cathedral and it's all hills around it."
She uploaded a video to her Facebook to document just how outrageous the trip to work was and to keep her colleagues informed as to the best way in to the hospital.
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Kat said: "We stayed over last night. We packed our bags, preempting that we'd have to stay over like so many of the other nurses and doctors and health care supporters did to make sure that the patients remained safe.
"It wasn't just myself that walked to work, a number of people walked around 10 miles as well. Our matrons walked in, our heads of nurses walked in. People tried to get here in their cars and had to abandon them but still managed to get in.
"So although my video has gone viral all I did was walk to work and record it and it was just so people know that at the NHS we do try."
Even though there were plenty of people who also made it into work that day, Holly and Phil surprised Kat with a three-day trip to Barcelona for her and her family.
Kat burst into tears, telling the TV hosts: "Oh my God, thank you so much ... I didn't expect this."
Other stories of medical bravery are emerging as the UK continues to be battered by a storm that's carrying red warnings from the Met Office.
An unnamed surgeon made a near three-hour journey in Scotland to operate on a patient.
Glasgow-based colorectal surgeon Andy Renwick has told the BBC: "I won't give her name because she would be genuinely upset with me.
"She is operating today on someone who has bowel cancer. She knew that had to be done and so she has made extra effort to get in here to make sure that was actually delivered."
It's a brilliant display of how hard people in emergency services work during these types of weather events. While we might be huddled up in our homes with the heater turned on high, these amazing people are out there tending to everyone.
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