Blizzard Busts Super Bowl Plans

Stupid snow! I know we are all sick to death of the S word by now, what a ridiculous winter it has been (and, really, what would we do if we weren't complaining about something, hmm?). I live in Maryland, we have relatively mild winters, nothing too extreme, well, normally. Our total cumulative snow fall this winter is about 4 feet, with 30" falling on Super Bowl weekend! All of the restaurants and bars are closed because everyone is snowed in. Home parties are cancelled for the same reason and even if you can get out there is no place to park in neighborhoods. Think of the loss of revenue, to say nothing of the leftover cheese platters. I guess everyone is staying home and eating all that bread and milk that we stocked up on in preparation for snow. You might notice a shortage of toilet paper at your local stores. We have been hoarding it around here. Sorry, if you run short and can't find any, let me know and I'll send you a couple rolls of Scott, this stuff just throws us for a loop.

People tend to lose all good sense when we get a snowfall of more than 1/2", at least around here they do. Last weekend it snowed all day Saturday and ended sometime after midnight I believe. On Sunday afternoon my husband and I went out to run a few errands. We were stopped at a traffic light and looked over to the right where there was a line waiting at the car wash. Now I understand the need to get the salt off of your car but good lord! The snow had barely stopped and the roads were still a slushy, salty mess. Between the car wash and home these cars would be filthy again in a matter of moments! Seemed like a waste of time and $15 to me, how about you?

Well, today we noticed something that we found inexplicable. There is a family of 4 adults who live down the street from us, 4 drivers, 4 vehicles. One of the drivers is in high school so he is not going to a job that he must get to on Monday morning. This family owns 3 small to midsized cars and a 4x4 truck of some sort. It's blue, that's all I know. I noticed them busily digging out the cars, clearing the driveway and around the mailbox. Did a great job too, they got all the way down to the pavement and squared off the sides quite well. When we looked closer we noticed that they cleared out all of the little cars and didn't even attempt to clear off the 4x4 truck! No, the truck is still buried. Huh? Oh, it runs, I pulled over to let it go past on the street just Thursday. You can see it in the picture, it's the giant lump of snow on the far right.