measi's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blizzard It's been a day of sitting around indoors, playing computer games, watching anime DVD's, and starting to dig through all of the penpal letters I have to sort through. Since we woke up, it's been snowing-- rather hard for the better part of the day. It's grown consistently worse by the hour. I've lived through few true blizzards with the horizontal snow blowing past the windows, making my view of the outside world appear as if I were looking through silk screen netting. The windows are rattling. The wind is howling outside, and curls of snow keep forming strange patterns under the muted light of the streetlights. It's blowing so hard that the snow is going through the screens to settle along the glass of the windows. And the cars are getting odd-shaped drifts that actually have angles outlining the cars, rather than the odd-shaped mounds that usually form. There's actually not that much snow on the Jeep-- the wind's blowing fast enough that I can see the paint of the hood from up here, even though it's been parked since noon. But the drifts alongside the jeep are about three inches short of the top of the hood. It's just all blowing off. And we're supposed to have the worst of this thing tonight between midnight and 4 a.m. I have to wonder how bad it's going to be. I wonder if, with how paralyzed New Jersey became from all of this, the meeting my office is supposed to have tomorrow will be cancelled-- or if work itself will be cancelled. I doubt the latter. There might be some validity to the former, however. The power of Mother Nature is just awe-inspiring. Especially when She pounds the earth with snow-filled authority. It's an amazing reminder that despite all of our technology, our lives still depend on the ebbs and flows of nature. And despite the hassle of dealing with it, I feel an odd sense of reassurance that things are as they should be-- human life hasn't torn itself completely away from the cycles of nature. I feel reassured sitting here in the house, listening to the windows rattle. Mother Nature is just giving us a bit of a fireworks show. ;) ~ Mel. 11:50 p.m. - 17 February 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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