“Snow brings a special quality with it—the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.” ~Nancy Hatch Woodward.
I guess I took a snow day last night before the snow actually started here in Kentucky. Whatever, I let Wednesday and most of Thursday slip by without doing a post. I could certainly claim a snow day today with about 6 or 7 inches falling since about eleven this morning. I know that’s not much for you all in those up north states but here in this middle of the country state, the snow has caused a mess. Interstates have been turned into long parking lots. The news said there was a 50 or more car pile-up on one of them. They showed pictures of trucks in various wrong positions on and off the road and some dented up cars. So far no news of fatalities although some injuries.
But the people on the roads behind those wrecks have had to sit there in their cars all afternoon and into the night. I hope they had plenty of gas when they started out. One lady said she’d started out with half a tank and was down to a quarter of a tank. She was a diabetic with no food in her car. Diabetics have to eat on schedule. Another guy walked a mile and half to a filling station to get a can of gas, a phone charger and some road snacks, he said.
Is there anywhere worse to be stuck for hours than in traffic? Ten minutes not moving can seem like an hour and an hour can drag out like five. When the news went off, the traffic was beginning to creep along. So, hoping those people got somewhere safely where they can be warm.
I’m glad to be seeing the snow from inside a warm house although I did go out walking with the dogs. I’m sure Marley would have been fine to skip the walk, but Frankie does get eager to get out the door. The snow was still coming down heavily as you can see from the pictures of the cows and Frankie. I tried to take a selfie with Marley, but he wouldn’t cooperate or maybe I didn’t want to sit down in the snow with him. I was snowy enough already.
Frankie was fine with the snow except he had to stop and chew the snow balls out from in between his foot pads every so often. Then he would be up and off running again. I don’t think he ever gets cold. He’s been in and out a dozen times since supper. Comes in snow covered and icy. I dry him off and two minutes later he’s ready to go out again to bark at something out there. I’m not sure what. Surely the coyotes are hunkered down in under the cedar trees but maybe they are playing in the snow too. The cows are staying close together but I’m thinking they should go find some cedar tree shelter too.
I hope you are somewhere dry and warm. Maybe Florida. I like the seasons and don’t mind a little snow as long as I don’t need to go anywhere. Back when I was working as a secretary in a neighboring city and then later when I had to stay with Mom before she passed on, the snow was definitely a problem. Then I could agree with this quote from Carl Reiner.
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
Do you like snow? Have to be out in it?