Mother Nature is Still on a Rampage
After picking through blizzard photos for this edition's header, I chose something without a speck of white. Maybe if I act as if winter will end someday, Mother Nature will take the hint. The forecast is for anywhere between five and fourteen feet more snow over the next ten days. <choke> We still have fifteen foot drifts from the last go-round that began around Xmas and didn't let up for the next six weeks. I live on a private road with 17 houses on it. We have a homeowners' group where most (but not all) of us chuck in funds monthly to cover snow removal. Other than the deadbeats, what we do not have is support from the town to truck snow out of here. Anything over about five feet total will annihilate the hill I live on. I'd be willing to pay someone to haul snow out of here, but it would be very expensive. The problem with about 20 percent of the homeowners who never pay anything looms large. Anyway, no point fussing since I have zero control over what com...