Snow Through the Ages
Brutus Buckeye is already in the thick of the blizzard that has the potential to biggest snow total in the area's history. You can follow his play-by-play on Twitter. And it seems like it started here a few hours ago. There hasn't been much accumulation yet, but the weathermen are predicting anywhere from 3 to 12". This all got me thinking about how the anticipation of snow has changed for me over the year.
As a child, who doesn't dream of a snow day? It meant an extra day off from school, snowmen, and hot chocolate. I'll never forget how we'd have our feet wrapped with plastic grocery bags underneath our boots (how do the children of Whole Foods shoppers keep their feet dry?).
As a teenager, snow meant money. My friends and I would roam the streets, shovels in hand and anxious to take advantage of people in need. Digging out cars cost about $20 or $30 dollars, driveways and sidewalks cost way more.
Brutus's recent tweet sums up snow for an adults quite perfectly:
"Plenty of booze, snacks, TP, & DVDs. And I can work from home on Mon. if we're still iglooed. What else do you need?"In other words, you spend days preparing and then days worrying about what its going to do to your work.
Man, seems a lot better to make snowmen.
Update: I just checked the weather report and they're now saying we'll get 1-3".
1 comments:
You know, it's funny ... in the 2 years we've lived here, not once have we had a kid come by and offer to shovel our drive & sidewalk for a fee. And there are plenty of kids around here; in the summer, they're always out playing in the streets. But man, they must be either just plain lazy about doing work ... even for money, simply glued to their video games, or just too woosiefied to come out into the cold (you rarely see the kids out playing in the snow around here). Probably some combination of all three, I suspect.
I have to say though that the lack of TV is starting to get old ... pathetic I know. I mean it's good that they have the local news casts streamed live on the stations' websites, but I guess it'll just give us a chance to catch up on all the shows we've Tivo'd in the past. Can't say that I'm super-gutted about missing the SuperBowl though.
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