so around 4am the wind woke me up. it kept me up for about an hour. it was cold in the apartment, which i attributed to a strong draft due to the high wind.
case in fact, however, is that something knocked one of the windows out of the kitchen! I discovered this when i ventured out to see if anything could be done to stop the noise the flapping plastic sheeting i had set up as insulation was making. so, at stupid o-clock am, i was up with a spare pane of glass and some duct tape, trying to keep the outside outside.
for the record, duct tape does not stick well to frozen aluminum.
furthermore, it is very difficut to get duct tape to support a pane of glass while it is badly adhering to frozen aluminum in the midst of head-on 30+mph winds.