Consider me forewarned
When The Weather Channel issues a special statement I take notice. When they continue to say that this one will be epic, I sit up with both eyes open. If they go a step further and mentioned snowfall amounts in excess of 1meter, I started to worry. What is an issue right now from them is probably the most strongly worded forecast that we have had in the last decade and I know it is a forecast; we will not know until it’s all over, whether or not this was just hyperbole. But I do trust the weather people they are usually given to speak with a measured tone. It does help that the upcoming storm is actually forecast for south of here. You know like a day to the South. I am smart enough to know when to stay home and that is exactly what I am going to do. I like my house. It is warm and dry in here and if we do get a meter of snow with the wind I will not test my limits by going camping in a tent. However not everyone is as fortunate. We have tent cities now. Something not even promised back in the good old days. You know, if you don’t be good I’ll make you go to sleep in a tent, no this is real. All we can do is wait and see. Hope that this is just a warning. Somehow, the concept of going from no snow to a meter in the trees is foreign. The kind of weather that people get in the mountains. But I live close to sea level and the biggest hill around here… we don’t have a big hill around here. So I will keep you up to date and if my house is lost in the drifts I will try to send directions on how to find me. I must not panic. I must not panic. See. Almost like a mantra. My spirit is calmer already but I do wish I had a few sled dogs.
