hunkering down

[ilanarama]

It's finally started to snow; the storm that was predicted to hit yesterday mostly bypassed us and is whomping Denver instead. We're not expected to get near as much as they will, just as in the pre-Christmas storm that closed DIA for days, when we only got a couple of inches. (Not that this wasn't without drama, as some of you already know. More about that in another post.)

The interesting thing (to me) is that these storms really underline our dependency on Stuff What Is Shipped In. I was supposed to bring fruit and vegetable trays to the inlaws' for Christmas, and the grocery store - the huge, national-chain store - looked kind of like the Staniel Cay grocery on the day before the mailboat arrives. Okay, maybe not quite that bare. But there was only a tiny bit of fresh stuff, and what there was looked pretty pathetic indeed. This week they have barely restocked (and then been cleaned out), and it's looking as though what with New Year's holiday coming up, between that and the storm we won't be getting much else.

Well, I don't care. I've got a well-stocked pantry (okay, not as stocked as on the boat, but decent!) and booze in the liquor cabinet. And I have internet, of course (yay!) Blow, wind, crack your cheeks! Let it snow! And all that.

Comments

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Eep! I am once again grateful to live where a half-inch of snow is a once-a-decade oddity that gets everyone all twitterpated.

Hang in there and stay warm!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you get windstorms that knock out all your power etc!

It's actually relatively warm - it's one of these wet, thick snowfalls, I think. We're only supposed to get a few inches. Anyway, I have wood in the stove and a cat on my lap and Yuletide on the browser. :-)

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

And torrential rainstorms that cause huge mudslides that close down all the highways into and out of the county.

There's natural hazards anywhere you go; just have to pick your poison, eh?

Anyway, I have wood in the stove and a cat on my lap and Yuletide on the browser.

Now there's a happy image. :-)

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

It's only barely started to snow here. There's a little on the ground.

My little town got more than any other in the area for the previous big storm, and we only just got our roads plowed today! They were carting it away in a fleet of dumptrucks!

I wonder if the new storm will fizzle.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

You didn't get the 2 feet the "foothills around Denver" got? I bet you must have gotten something, though. It mostly missed us - we've got less than 1/2 inch although it flurries on and off.

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

We got something like 4 or 5 inches. Not bad, all told. It's still going, off and on, though, so we'll see.

[hwrnmnbsol.livejournal.com]

Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But all work / no play make Jack dull,
And since we've no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

It doesn't show signs of slacking,
Through your door I'll soon be hacking,
Now where did that Danny go?
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

When we finally say goodnight,
In our climactic chasing scene,
I'll be colored grey from frostbite,
In my hedge so labyrinthine!

Our expedition is slowly dying,
And the Thing's still multiplying,
But the world may never know;
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Now you have me craving National Lampoon's "Colorado." Damn, I wish I had a recording of this.

Stuck in this old city now,
Where livin' ain't no fun.
Where steel and glass and concrete
Cancel out the wind and sun.
And I'm thinkin' of last winter now,
When we walked hand-in-hand,
In the trails of the Colorado Rockies.
The wind sang us a lullaby.
The snow was thick as cream.
And icicles were chandeliers
Like crystals in a dream.
And the streams were strips of diamonds
And the hills were white as snow
And a bear ate all our soybeans in the night.
Oh, Colorado's calling me ...
From her hillsides and her rivers
And her mesas and her trees.
When blizzards snap the powerlines
And all the toilets freeze ...
In December in the Colordo Rockies.
We had time and space and freedom,
We had love and peace to spare.
Though we ran out of things to smoke
And say and eat and wear.
And the morning of the avalanche,
The Yeti kidnapped Blanche,
And took her to his cave up in the Rockies.
Oh, Colorado's calling me ...
From her glaciers and her canyons
And her badlands and ravines.
When infectious hepatitis
Was all that came to stay,
In January in the Colorado Rockies.
Baby didn't die until
We burned up all our wood.
Considering we ate her raw,
She tasted pretty good!
Then the fascist health inspectors
Dug us out and mailed us home ...
Except for Blanche who wouldn't leave her man.
Oh, Colorado's calling me ....
(Hey! You!)
From her mountains and her rivers
And her meadows and her trees.
They tell me I'll be cured soon,
Thawed, and ready to return ...
When it's April in the Colorado Rockies.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

And like magic! Colorado (http://download.yousendit.com/200B938E02F62477)!

[adw3345.livejournal.com]

And I have internet, of course (yay!)

I read this as "And I have intercourse (yay!). I was all like 'You said it, girl!' Nothing better to while the days away in the dead of winter. Then I re-read it and now it's not so exciting anymore.

-Derrick

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Intercourse is in Pennsylvania, silly. I'm in Colorado.

[trobadora]

I am so glad to be living somewhere where weather like this just doesn't happen. But you have internet, that's the important part, right? *g*

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I guess with Global Warming it's happening less and less in Europe these days!

I kind of like snow, actually. I like weather that varies from season to season. I like sitting on my comfy couch with the kitty on my lap and a fire in the wood stove while it blizzards outside!

[trobadora]

We haven't had proper winter weather yet at all this year! Europe's getting more storms and floods though, so it's not really a good trade. And I like snow, but in the city it tends to turn into a wet, dirty sludge very quickly, which is a shame.

Great Image

[traveller42.livejournal.com]

I also like to be somewhere where the seasons change. I used to leave near New Orleans. Had a great time, but I missed winter. I also used to live in Alaska. Another great place. They actually have seasons and I still miss the way the Northern Lights look from there. I spent a year in Colorado Springs. Another place I enjoyed. We got three foot of snow overnight in September that year (and a snow storm in June the following year).

Enjoy your stove, the cat, and the view.

Happy New Year!!

Re: Great Image

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year!

Yeah, I can't see living in a place without winter at all. Alaska might be a bit much because of the darkness (although I kind of wanted to move up there after visiting in summer 1993) but I like living in Colorado.