Okay, I’ve had enough snow already. Really. Snowpocalypse 2010 Round 1 snow storm was enough: we got a full two feet, and maybe a bit more. I know that’s nothing compared to the folks up in the Great White North, but here in Maryland we panic at the sight of the first snowflake (and hey, I’m from Phoenix Arizona, where we only see pictures of snow and panic).
The crowning glory of Round 1 was that we lost power for 32 hours. I bought a diesel backup generator a couple years ago after we lost power for a couple days after a hurricane, and thought, “Hey, we’ve got this in the bag!” Half an hour of cursing and cranking later, the generator sputtered into life, then died after about thirty seconds. Is that typical, or what? Needless to say, as soon as the snow is cleared enough for people to make their way out again, I’m having a local backup power company come and install a natural gas-fed standby generator that takes care of itself and comes on any time the power goes out. I’m not going to mess around with that again!
Fortunately, the stores weren’t too bad last night when we made our resupply run in anticipation of Snowpocalyps 2010 Round 2, which is supposed to dump another ten to twenty inches of chilly white stuff on us. The good news is that work was closed again, but we’re not looking forward to shoveling the driveway out again: the piles of snow we made after Round 1 were as tall as my wife, Jan!
In the meantime, I’ll try to get more revisions done on Legend of the Sword, and get in a P90X Core Synergistics workout to get loosened up for the shovel-fest!
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Tags: P90X, Snow Storm, Snowpocalypse 2010
