Ok, I'll admit it. Im a Texan. That comes with a predisposed disposition of sorts regarding weather. We dont quite know how to deal with an abundance of winter weather other than, poorly, on all counts. We dont know how to drive in it, how to prepare for it or much less how to dress for it! We are flip flop wearing folks 365 days of the year.
Our TV news people get so wrapped up with these weather events that they hijack regular programming for hours in order to show the exact same spot on the highway slowly getting covered with snow! One lone reporter is standing there shivering like an angry chihuahua, saying road conditions are bad and getting worse and to stay home if at all possible. I figure this reporter must be the most hated one at the station, maybe she steals lunches from the fridge or something equally as heinous because she is always out there, braving the conditions. Bless her heart; in the spring you can find her in a blinding storm with hurricane force winds clinging to a street sign for dear life or standing in a ditch to show how fast the water is rising and how fierce the current is running while saying with a quiver in her voice that it only take 6 inches of fast moving water to knock a grown person off their feet and sweep them into the sewer hole, never to be seen again! Compared to that, I guess standing in a swirling snow with teeth chattering, ice crystals forming on her lashes and struggling to stay upright is no big deal.
This year we seem to have more than our share of winter weather. For crying out loud, enough already! The hardier souls living in the Texas panhandle just laughed at us last week. They were nice enough to loan us a few snow plows so we could at least look prepared to the Yankees visiting for the Super Bowl. Those panhandlers take snow in stride but here in the metroplex, forget it. At the first mention of snow we head in mass for Walmart, stocking up on everything from toothpaste (I know) to dry goods. If yesterdays trip told me anything, its that half of Collin County will be eating beans and brushing their teeth for entertainment this week.
The schools are closed again today which sends mothers running and screaming down the street pulling their hair out. Oh wait, that was me years ago, maybe mothers of today have more patience (or better drugs). They are on the news as well, complaining if the schools are closed and then this morning complaining that one district remained open! You cant please everyone.
So, here I sit, staring longingly out at the newspaper in the middle of our precariously sloped driveway, covered with ice and soon to be hidden by snow. Gary forbids me to go get it, thinking I most surely will fall on my head, yet again which might prevent me from fixing lunch. My only distraction appears to be a fight between a cardinal and a squirrel over the piddly remains of a suet block in the tiny live oak out front. Ho Hum, maybe I'll go put a pot of beans on the stove.
Snow Snow and Still More Snow
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
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