Stayed over due to weather
A quick look out the window reminds me that I am at home and that I am in very little danger of being storm stayed. That’s the expression we use around here for when you can’t get back to where you want to go. Further looking back in time I realize that I have not had very many incidents that saw me storm stayed or otherwise delayed by weather. There was a trip in the winter when we got hit by an ice storm and had to stay at a hotel on the road but that was easy. There was also a train trip that went on for so long that some fellow passengers decided to give up on public transportation and rent a car. For the next afternoon I traveled with them from one major city to another in order to get home for the holidays. Again that went well there was also the time that I could not get home from church where I had gone to sing in a choir. Happily the choir director simply invited me to stay with her family at their house. I was only a few kilometres from home but there was too much snow. There is a commonality to the story. All of my delays have pertained to winter weather. I have never had to shelter in place because of a hurricane or any other natural disaster that did not involve snow. Or ice if I count that freezing rain. We are now getting ready for winter in this part of the world and given that there is no snow on the ground that tells you something. This used to be the time of year when you got your sleigh out from storage two down the hills. Yes I know where my coat is and my boots but right now I could probably traipse around outside in bare feet double digit weather. For the record I’m not going to because that might get people in the neighbourhood talking about the crazy old man who lives up the road I do not want to add to their stories.
