Snow: A Marylander's Plight

[dawn_felagund]

I was driving home from work today, and I was about five minutes from home when *whoosh!* it started to snow. I mean, one moment I was driving and it was cloudy but clear; next, I could barely see for all of the snow. Of course, I live in Maryland, and. so. traffic. stopped. It took fifteen minutes to get home, during which time about a centimeter

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[dawn_felagund]

Yes! The weather around here is always the "Big Story" and there are the inevitable shots of long lines at the grocery store and people buying snow shovels at Home Depot. We get little tickers at the bottoms of our TV screens that show weather updates, like, "Severe Weather Warnings for Baltimore, Harford, Cecil, Howard, and Anne Arundel counties," which always amuses me since they can rarely even predict when it will snow correctly much less which counties will get the most! There are also cutesy little graphics of snowflakes or lightning bolts or funnel clouds...depending upon the threat du jour (and we get just about all kinds of odd weather here so they have quite the array.)

This is definitely a place where people obey the "milk, bread, and toilet paper rule." (Marylanders don't possess the common sense to buy water. We'd sooner have soda and milk.) Luckily for Bobby and me, the weather people were wrong (as usual) and called for flurries without accumulation, else people would have been lined up two days ago. As it was, the unexpected snow caught everyone off-guard and, of course, they were afraid to leave their homes to buy a twelve-pack of Charmin lest that centimeter of snow on the grass prove their demise.

And the idea of -10 makes me cringe. It was a relatively balmy 33F here today and I still suffered. I despise winter.

Thanks for the well wishes! I'm going to try to enjoy my day off the best that I can! At least get some things done.... :)

[rinnor]

I despise winter too - no one is really sure why I live in Minneapolis, where winter usually predominates for at least 5 months and the other months are rather iffy. It's probably why I appreciate summer and refuse to turn on the AC except for about 1 week a year.

Once I gave up on the idea of being fashionable and decided to be warm, winter is easier to handle. Boots, hat, big sweaters, thick coat, etc.

[dawn_felagund]

Yeah, my husband is told in no uncertain terms that I have no problem with him taking a transfer for his job, including working overseas, but I will not live 1) in the Middle East, 2) in Africa, 3) or anywhere colder than Maryland.

Moving to Florida, Puerto Rico, or Europe, on the other hand...I can live with that. ;)

I would probably die in Minneapolis.