Bah Humbug, Day Two

[majorjune]

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

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[droxy]

I remeber getting snow on halloween when I was in Detroit and Chicago.

But I hope it goes so the kids can trick or treat.

[majorjune]

The problem isn't the snow.

The problem is all of the power lines that are down, making it unsafe for anyone to be wandering around on the streets after dark. So many communities are already calling for cancelling Halloween, or at least postponing it.

I'm signed up for my state's Emergency Management notification system, and I just got the call from my town's EM...a recording stating that if you live on the following streets and don't have power, don't expect it to be restored tonight and please don't call the police about it. It then recited almost every street in my town, including "parts of" the street I live on.

So I guess I'm lucky that I didn't lose power, but even though my town is serviced by the good power company, obviously there's a lot of outages even in my town...