tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4558607415091400992.post8837514088309974899..comments2023-10-07T07:28:56.441-04:00Comments on Like a Rose: Debbie@Like a Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595737927336471561noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4558607415091400992.post-26490118993956611872007-12-17T21:11:00.000-05:002007-12-17T21:11:00.000-05:00Glad everybody is ok, and you didn't get whammed,b...Glad everybody is ok, and you didn't get whammed,but I have always wondered the same thing myself-why we have these "put your affairs in order and gather your loved ones" type warnings, the grocery store frenzy, only to have a sort of inconvenient afternoon, weather-wise. And the storms that we really get slammed with seem to come out of nowhere. We are supposed to have 2 weeks worth of hurricane supplies at all times, but no one must actually do this, because we have the same grocery store/Home Depot rush any time a storm is predicted(wouldn't people use their existing stash?). I do remember one year I kind of laughed off warnings in Massachusetts, only to wake up and realize my car had been towed for city snow removal, and I had to trudge through a blizzard and pay the really happy towing guys and drive my Nissan Sentra circa 1983 uphill to my apartment, jumping out to shovel it free every few minutes. I'm a little nostalgically jealous, not of the scurrying part but of the cozy "waiting for snow doom where nothing bad happens and the power doesn't go out but there's no good reason to change out of our pajamas" aspect of Northern winter..I'm sure it would be different if I was actually there.Johannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03702200089250394512noreply@blogger.com