New England Snow Day Survival List.
1. Bread.
2. Milk.
3. Shovel or soup pot to shove aside snow with.
4. Bucket of sand to throw on the icy sidewalks and porch, or cat litter, which is a weirder yet still effective alternative.
5. Ice scraper to remove the caked up layers of winter wonderland from your windshield.
6. Moments consulting the "Dopplah radah," which advises as to the track of the storm.
7. Warm, fat cats to sleep on your feet to keep your toes warm yet awkwardly immobile.
8. Enough insulin in your pump to make consuming mass quantities of bread-and-milk soup possible.
9. Job that makes it easy to work from home while the snowflakes fall fast and furiously.
10. Internet connection.
11. Extra carton of milk, just in case a pack of wild Vikings come to visit and clamor for French toast.
12. And more bread.
Comments
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Siah needs to experience the snow. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Rachel Baumgartel | December 13, 2007 10:07 PM
Wow cold weather. I forgot what that even feels likes. Im just having one of those Mid-December, AC on for a week, 80 degree Louisiana Christmases. Nothing like Christmas shopping in shorts!
Posted by: Kim | December 13, 2007 11:21 PM
As a woman from RI who reads Don Bosquet, I have to remind you not to forget the hay-ya (hair) spray, cause if you're stuck home with the BF you still gotta look your best! Stay warm!
Posted by: Laurie | December 14, 2007 12:10 AM
Um snow, blizzards, kitty litter just another winder day in Montana. I just dont get it when a town has to shut down because of 1 inch of snow. We never shut down. Even when we got the ash from Mt. Saint Helens. Coldest I have been in was 80 below zero with the wind chill facotr.
Someone mention soup ?
Posted by: Joanna | December 14, 2007 07:38 AM
Kerri
You should have been tracking my French Toast alert:
http://www.bernardfarrell.com/blog/2007/12/french-toast-alert.htm
Can't wait until Sunday!!
Posted by: Bernard Farrell | December 14, 2007 08:40 AM
Did I see bread on your list twice!!! I wish we would get about 2 feet of snow here in D.C. so we could shut everything down.
Posted by: Dave Wendel | December 14, 2007 08:44 AM
I'm jealous, all we've had so far this year are some rinky-dink flurries and dusted grass. Hope you're staying safe and warm inside.
Posted by: Jillian | December 14, 2007 09:37 AM
Dopplah, Dopplah. Mah Gawd, Ma, look at the Dopplah!
Posted by: Darrell | December 14, 2007 09:43 AM
Man, I am so jealous. We got snow for all of 5 minutes, and then it proceeded to rain, HARD, for the rest of the day. Now the city is a sloppy mess -- well, a sloppier mess than normal.
Posted by: Rained-on Rob | December 14, 2007 10:28 AM
Why do we feel compelled to make soup when a snow storm is predicted? do we have some latent lentil gene that gets activated by changes in barometric pressure?
The one other item I'd add to your list is the set of DVDs from the last season of Lost.
Posted by: Barbara K. | December 15, 2007 01:57 PM