If you catch a moment of stillness ...the assault on the senses is otherworldly.

That is how it feels to me when I get awake at 3 or 4 a.m. and go out on my balcony in the middle of Miami Beach. The reporter is writing from frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia. But stillness is the rule in Siberia. You want an "otherworldly" "assault" on the senses, sample stillness in the middle of a city! Streets and roads built for human activity as still and silent as a remote lake. Buildings and motor vehicles idle. Most of all we expect sound in a city, for humans are a noisy species. And yet in a locale where people are densely congregated there is silence. It is uncanny, scarcely believable, utterly enchanting.

That’s four more human beings, and I dare say more sound, on Lake Baikal in Siberia in mid-March, temperature, 0 degrees...

...than I saw and heard at 4:29 a.m. on March 11 on Miami Beach, temperature ~60 degrees.