Mother Nature, You Bitch

Well, isn’t this fun? First we get a good 2 feet of snow dumped on us, and now they are calling for another 10 to 20 inches tomorrow.

Yesterday I went out at 8 o’clock in the morning to shovel out my driveway. There is so much snow piled up in our neighborhood of townhouses that one is hard-pressed to find a place to put it. There was already a hill of snow to the left of my drive from when the neighbors dug themselves out, and the ex’s drive was to my right. So I took that snow, one shovelful at a time, and walked across the plowed street and piled it up over there. Sometimes I would get gigantic clumps of wet snow that stuck together like a humongous snowball and I would just drag it with my shovel to the other side of the street. It took me 2 1/2 straight hours to complete.

Now I sit here, still sore from yesterday’s ordeal, and hear that we’re getting even more snow tomorrow, and I can’t even imagine how we can handle another 20 inches of snow at this point. The roads here are still a mess, as in you’re driving along and all the sudden there’s a big snow pile in front of you.

Oh well. I’m still thankful because at least we have power unlike so many others who haven’t had power for days. And thank god I made it to the library at the last minute Friday afternoon. Looks like I’m gonna be doing a LOT of reading over the next few days.