Have you heard about the blizzard we had yesterday in the midwest? If you answered no, then do you by chance live under a rock? Or maybe somewhere sunny and warm? It really wasn’t as bad as they said it could be, but at the time, it was even referred to in my local paper as a “sno-nado”, along with what has become the yearly Snowpocalypse! and Snowmageddon!. I’m not kidding. People are funny.
I had turned it over to The Weather Channel that morning in an effort to prepare myself for the impending range of precipitation. Jedi was sitting beside me on the couch, reading the day’s forecast aloud, excited at the prospect of possible snow past his waist.
“Significant icing possible”, it read.
Great, I thought. I can handle snow, but icing is a completely different thing as it causes much more damage, as I saw first hand a number of years back during the great ice storm of ’06. Plus, it’s nice to look at lofty snowflakes fluttering from the sky. There’s nothing attractive about ice pellets pinging against your roof or slicking up your steps.
Unless you’re Jedi, and your mind innocently guides you somewhere else.
“Significant icing?”, he wondered enthusiastically. “Like cake icing?”
Now that’s the kind of weather event I could stand behind. Or happily slip and fall in.
14 inches here yesterday. FOURTEEN INCHES! Mama needs some liquor in her coffee is all I’m saying. Going to go dig myself out now. Stay safe!
@Tina, You stay safe, too! We have almost 12 and it’s completely shut everything down. I’m not even going to worry about digging myself out today, since we have nowhere to go anyway.
Um… Okay. I live REALLY far south. Monday it was in the upper 70s and today we woke up to temps in the low 20s. No snow, but weather whiplash.
Stay warm!
Word. Like that book … Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. 😉
It has been freezing here, but it’s supposed to be 50 on Friday. I seriously love our weather.
Cake icing from the sky might be tasty, but a little sticky.
Cake icing from the sky sounds delicious. Nice take on some very dangerous stuff. Stay warm and safe.
@Kate, Our temperature this morning is a balmy -7, windchill at -20. If I didn’t like you so much, I might just hate you and your 70 degree temps ;).
@Marilyn @ A Lot of Loves, Which would make it not as easy to slip and fall in. WIN-WIN!
@jesser, We love that movie here. A downpour of icing would be good, but I’m waiting for the whole cupcakes.
@Rudri Patel, Doesn’t it? Though I have to admit my 4yo thinks snow itself is mighty tasty, as he won’t stop eating it no matter how many times I tell him to. I’ve given up by this point and just make sure it’s white, clean snow, and not brown or yellow.
@C. (Kid Things),
Fair. Don’t be a hater though. We do get 99% humidity days and 100+ weather for three months of the year. That might sound nice now. But it isn’t.
Now, where can we both move with 70s temps all year long?