Sigh...

There are various rumblings amongst our weathermen for more precipitation in our region tonight. The main part of the storm is supposed to miss us, but nobody knows for certain. Predictions are running from just a little rain to 5" of snow. The possibility of more white stuff is predictably and cruelly timed, as we're just getting things back to normal here. There's been a lot of melting in the past three days. Although the Manor is still heavily hit due to a Northern exposure and a copse of shade trees to our South, the ice dams that extended 4 inches OVER our rain gutters have gone, thus protecting us from any type of leakage or wicking into the house structure; in most neighborhoods there is now street parking and all major and secondary roads appear clear*. I even passed by two speed traps this morning. It was almost charming to once again see the polizei out and thwarting anyone getting anywhere with alacrity, as if trying to make up for the lack of ice and snow. Even the grocery stores have restocked, and no longer resemble some post-apocalyptic wasteland. But the gods are cruel. And I await their tricks - I now have enough chemical snowmelt to wipe clean Antarctica...Oh, I'm sure that the resulting yard will look like Death Valley, come Spring. But I figure the grinding glacier of ice on it now has probably wiped all life forms out all ready. We'll see.


*Of course there are the usual resulting potholes. But I zig-zagged around a small cluster on Braddock Road that were incredible! The surface areas weren't particularly wide, but my gods they were deep! I've never seen such holes! I swear, they were so deep that you could hear the cries of damned souls rising from their inky blackness, and smell brimstone.