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Posts Tagged ‘snow_bound’

The Blizzardly Blogger Blues (Snow Bound)

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Email alerts all day “Natio­nal Weather Ser­vice issues stern war­ning“

“as dan­ge­rous as win­ter weather can get”

No one wan­ted to leave the bar. Chan­ces of anyone get­ting back out this wee­kend were slim. Sta­ving off the much fea­red “cabin fever” we lin­ge­red. The goal, to delay wall clim­bing due to tem­po­rary insa­nity of a for­ced wee­kend at home. Ine­vi­tably we had to leave. Wal­king, almost blin­ded to home, on streets which, when you could see them through the side­ways falling snow, were impas­sa­ble, unmar­ked by tire tread, snow plows nowhere in sight. The walk was more of a trek, almost dan­ge­rous (if anything of this world I live in can be called dan­ge­rous), a won­der­ful last hurrah before a bliz­zard for­ced incarceration.

Once home I had much to do.

Fill the bath­tub and sinks with water. Check for wor­king flash­lights and dig out the cand­les. Charge cell phone, lap top. Check on ever­yone I know and don’t know, and ans­wer all text mes­sa­ges and emails from con­cer­ned family and friends. Food, water, alcohol. Sac­ri­fice something to the god­dess of elec­tri­city in exchange for a wee­kend without a power loss. Still wor­king on that one.

Be safe my east coast bliz­zard buddies.

peace