That last cold front was a bitch. It was 12F (-11C) when I left the house today, yesterday the high was 32F (0C) and tomorrow it's going to be 72F (22C)

Also, bitlocker is not the only disk encryption software for Windows. It's just the built in one. If you wanted, you could use something like Veracrypt which is open source and will play nicely with all your OSes.