Dusting of snow: Everybody panic!!
Despite the wisdom of an overgrown rodent in Pennsylvania, and the realities of the calendar and years of experience, people around here come to think that when all the snow melts, it's not coming back.These people are stupid.
So when we went from a 55º day to forecasts of snow showers in the span of 24 hours, the whole town went into a four-alarm frenzy. Remember when I said my day job is busy when it snows? Everybody just went nuts, so we were slaughtered. My boss called for all hands to be available yesterday.
And . . . we got all of a dusting. You could clear off your sidewalk with an extension cord, a hair dryer, and five minutes of time. Ridiculous.
People: the snow always comes back. Always. And guess what? We're going to get at least six to eight inches sometime in the second or third week in March (and the local news' UltraDopplers won't see it coming). It always happens. Bank on it. Don't start crapping out bricks because you were so stupid as to think that you could put the snowplow and winter jacket away and get your pool ready for summer because we had a couple days off from the permafrost.
It's supposed to get nicer here on the weekend. Maybe I'll be able to get things done then.
posted by Marsh @ 3:40 PM
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