The weather outside was certainly frightful earlier this week in the Lakes Region.

Christmas shoppers, commuting motorists and people who work outside for a living had to contend with below-zero temperatures and two sizeable snowstorms.

Six-year-old Rhonan MacCarter, left, plays in the newly fallen snow as his stepdad, Jason Rice, loads a Christmas tree onto their car at Lowe’s Home Improvement in North Windham during Tuesday night’s snowstorm.

Second big snowfall storm in three days hits Windham in early evening.Neither snow, wind or gloom of night – or all three at once – kept Windham High School junior Shaun Davies from doing his job at Shaw’s Supermarket in North Windham, sledding cart-loads of returnable bottles to the compactor machine behind the store during Tuesday night’s snowstorm.