The PineApple Express

It hit last night. Warm moist air from the south moves north to collide with stagnant arctic air and the next thing you know your power is out. In the morning the town is hushed and dark and the 6 to 8 inches of wet gooey snow have trees bent down and broken. The radio reports 2500 homes without power, I think thats just about everybody around here.

So today my job was snow removal and driving MP to work and back. Of all the machines I own the snowblower is my favorite, theres just something magical about it after 25 years of shoveling. The machine labored today to do the 40' by 60' foot area that leads to the supposedly borrough maintained road. That plow usually comes within 2 days of a dump like this one so in the meantime we use the big truck and leave the Subaru in the garage. Its raining right now. In town the storm drains are blocked and theres puddles deep enough to drown a cat in. Then the way this deal works is the PineApple Express loses out to the cold arctic air freezing everything solid. So stand by for the next entry that could be called....'Driving on Glare Ice with People in a hurry'