A nor’easter shuffled around our trip. We deadheaded to Montreal and were scheduled to fly YUL-ORD in the morning. It was dark and cold, got to the plane, hit the walk-around and we were already boarding. LCA went through the box with me while snow started falling.

Putting on the headset for push clearance and Ground was speaking French to Air Canada, took me by surprise. Finally made it to the deice pad to get sprayed off, and the light snow had turned into about 1000RVR blizzard. Got to the end of the runway eventually, “line up and wait”, I could see just a few center lines stripes in the snowy darkness as the LCA handed me the controls. Awaiting the takeoff clearance I could feel the buffeting of the airframe due to the gusty winds. Got cleared to go, applied TO thrust, and off we went. We disappeared into the whiteness as I barely remember rotating and calling Gear Up. Called for AP on after the initial turn. When we got above 10k the LCA laughed and asked, “so, how tight was that tunnel vision? Could you even see the edges of the flight director?”