(The following post was made ready for publication early Saturday morning, seconds before the power went out for a second time, preventing me from getting it on the Internet!!)
I don’t know if Mother Nature is making a political statement, or if the data reported by the United Nations’ committee on global warming used the wrong noun in its report, but this sure isn’t feeling like global warming.
Nor do I yet know what the official snow depth is in Potomac, MD, where we are temporarily snowbound at the home of our hosts; but a yardstick placed in the snowpack this morning on the deck just outside the window walls to the back yard registered a smidge under 29 inches. And that wasn’t in the deepest spot.
Weekend activities here are either cancelled or postponed to another day. All of the Protestant churches are scrolling cancellations of Sunday services across the TV screen, and the Roman Catholic Archdioceses of Washington and Baltimore have exempted their flocks from Sunday Mass, while encouraging them to tune into Masses on their TV sets.
It will be a great day for the Super Bowl Sunday afternoon, providing the power doesn’t fail again, prompting all of us to bundle up once more, as we might do for a ski expedition.
It is not supposed to happen this way! I called family members in New Hampshire this afternoon, and not a single snowflake fell up there, the usual destination for all this fluffy stuff.
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