Bah Humbug, Day Two
Okay, it's not so much as the frost being on the pumpkin, as all the pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, and other outdoor Halloween decorations buried under 8 or more inches of "frost"....
But I am grateful that earlier this year I moved to an area covered by an electric company that historically is the most proactive in the state when it comes to preventing power outages before they happen, and minimizing any outages when the do happen.
So last year I was living in an area where even a bad rain storm meant losing power for a couple of hours, and last winter's train of blizzards meant outages that lasted 12 hours or more.
But in August I only lost power for 30 hours when Hurricane Irene hit...the rest of the state, covered by the "bad" power company, was without power for more than two weeks.
Yesterday my power flickered for a few seconds in the afternoon, but never went off, even though I had a constant cacaphony of bangs and booms surrounding me as branches snapped off trees in the woods that surround me.
This morning I see that a fairly large branch has fallen onto the side of the driveway, but it nicely placed itself right on the edge of the driveway parallel to it, so it's not blocking anything. But I haven't taken a walk down the fairly long driveway to see if anything else has come down. One reason is that I'm suffering from a sinus infection and so I'm just not really in the mood to deal with it right now. Secondly, the driveway hasn't been plowed and I don't feel like schlepping thru a couple of inches of slush.
I don't know if the lack of plowing indicates that there is a branch or even a tree down that blocks access, or more likely, that whomever is supposed to plow just hasn't bothered. Right now it's no big deal, I don't have to be anywhere today or tomorrow, but I hope this isn't an indicaion that I'm going to have the same problem as I had at my old place last winter, that promised plowing will not be forthcoming...that will definitely put a crimp on already difficult job hunting.
Since the snow is the wet, heart-attack-inducing type that clumps together well, local news channels have shown how some people with a sense of humor have created vampire snowmen for Halloween...
:-P