Hope everyone in the areas with ice and and nor’easter snows stay safe, keep your power, and that all stays well for you.
We lived near the North Shore area of New Jersey during the blizzrd of 1978. That one was actually a series of heavy snow storms over two weeks, culminating in the final HUGE storm. I shoveled more snow in 10 days than I have the entire rest of my life, including the record blizzard of 1982 here in St. Louis. To hear the weather forecasts that the Northeast is going to be hammered as badly or worse than in 1978 is chilling (no pun intended), especially given how many people still don’t have secure homes after hurricane Sandy.
Yesterday was non-stop light rain, often not much more than drizzle, here. When I was in the store late afternoon, some woman ahead of me in the checkout line, a total stranger, was carping about the rain. She turned and insisted on knowing how awful I thought it was. Sorry, but we are still in a drought deficit here with water wells gone dry that supply water to some towns and the rivers at record low levels. If we don’t get rain LOTS of rain in the next few months we will be critically short of drinking water this summer. I managed to keep it polite but when she pushed for an answer I told her just that. Here we are dangerously short of water, other areas are about to be plastered with a blizzard, and she is complaining about some drizzle that didn’t even need an umbrella. *rolls eyes*