Ice Storm Impends

[mbranesf]

I said in a recent post that I was getting through even this especially snow-heavy winter without too much in the way of my usual seasonal depressive symptoms, but...y'all, this is getting frakking stupid! We have had a serious winter weather event weekly since Thanksgiving and now they say that we will experience here in St. Louis, over the next three days, a compound of winter shit that will rival the infamous Big Snow of 1982. It will begin tomorrow with as much as an inch of ice being laid over the city by freezing rain, to be followed by up to a foot of snow, and then high winds and severe cold. Oh yeah, and outré weather conditions like "thunder snow" and "thunder sleet" as well. Now they're just making shit up!

Anyway, an ice storm of such cinematic proportions means massive, widespread power outages. In 2006, a similar storm left people without electricity for over a week. J and I were spared the loss of power in our home, though our restaurant was knocked out for about 36 hours (we saved perishable food in our powerless refrigerators and freezers by simply opening the doors to the outside and chilling the entire interior of the place to 30F degrees). So, will we luck out this time and keep our home lighted and warm? And even if we do, will the cable (internet and TV) be working? If I do not post here or on Twitter or Facebook sometime during the evening hours Tuesday US Central Time, it probably means that we are blacked out and that I am really cranky.

One last thing, to any local area peeps and tweeps who live to bitch about the heat in the summer: suck it hard.

[Note to self: Top priority Monday morning--stock more booze!]

Comments

[red bakersen (from livejournal.com)]

Good luck, my friend. If I could send you the heat we have here, I would.

If you lose heat in your house remember - you and J can keep each other warm with your bodies. ;)

[mbranesf.livejournal.com]

We certainly may, though it might not be as sexy as your comment implies since we will probably be huddling in multiple layers of clothing, with two cats sandwiched between us! But we'll be good and drunk ;)