Alternate headlines include Snowmaggedon, Snowpocalypse, Snow-M-G, Blizaster, and Tsnownami, or fill in the blank with your own: _________.
As if you hadn’t already heard, the Midwest (among many other parts of the country) is currently being battered by a serious blizzard. In fact, my city declared a Level 3 Snow Emergency yesterday afternoon, and almost every single school has been shut down…except one.
Suddenly, my snowy day weather song sounds ridiculously wimpy, as do the rest of my winter-themed tunes. I mean, really — how do you do justice to a snowstorm of this magnitude? Maybe you have a spectacular answer to that question, and if so, please share it in the comments.
Truth be told, I’d rather just concentrate on the fact that winter will be over in six weeks or so, regardless of what the groundhog says. (Happy Groundhog Day, by the way!) I keep thinking about the lovely spring songs I’ll soon be able to sing, not to mention the lovely weather that will accompany them.
But then I float back to reality, which at the present time involves lots and lots of snow, ice, and wind. I hope you are keeping safe and warm today. As Al Roker might ask: what’s the weather like in your neck of the woods?
Dear Rachel,
I probably shouldn’t even be writing this…:)
Where I live, in Victoria, BC on Vancouver Island (a 2-hour ferry ride across the ocean from Vancouver…where the Winter Olympics were held last year) we have no snow. We almost never have snow. We have blossoms emerging on the trees in our backyard right now.
There is a slight dusting of frost on the car windshields this morning. An unusual event. (…and this is Canada…land of igloos!)
I didn’t grow up here, so I know what blizzard conditions are and what it’s really like to navigate through snow drifts taller than most adults.
Be safe! Spring IS coming.
I’ll take your word that spring is coming, you lucky duck! I would love to live someplace where it doesn’t snow…maybe someday :)
Hi Rachel,
I’m in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and the sun is shining here. All of my downstate friends have the day off, but not us. We’ve only had one snow day this school year, but I guess that’s one more than you’ve had. :) Be safe and warm!
Hi Kim! The sun was out here for a brief time this morning — a sight for sore eyes. I hope that groundhog was right and spring is just around the corner for ALL of us!
Yesterday was 70 and breezy.
Be jealous!