by Peggy Robin
A light snow has started now. All of you with school age children who have been doing the snow dance while
wearing their pajamas
inside out and backwards – good job! But you know, of course, that you made
it come down on the wrong day! A late Saturday to mid-Sunday snowfall may not get
you a day off from school, you sillies! All you may get is some good sledding
on Sunday.
On the other hand, it’s possibly you may have called in
enough of the white stuff to make traveling too difficult for teachers, not just tonight and
tomorrow, but through Monday morning. I just checked with Capital Weather Gang
and they’ve upped their prediction from 3-5 inches to 4-8 inches, mainly on Sunday afternoon through evening (see https://wapo.st/2SPricI). After that, I
gave Free Weather Call a ring, and the weatherman on the line told me it’s
possible that we could get up to TEN inches before 6 PM on Sunday.
If we get that much snow, here's what else will come our way: Surge pricing on Uber at four times
the usual rate. People raiding the stores for milk, bread, and toilet paper. And
any number of pratfalls (funny word, but the thing itself is not funny!) caused by unshoveled sidewalks
and icy steps. You will have to think ahead and take care each time you step outside. But when you do, you will find yourself in a glistening white world, where everything is covered by a soft, all-encompassing blanket, where each footfall causes a satisfying crunch under your snowboots, and you breathe in the crispness of the freezing air and exhale the steam of your breath and feel all around you the picture-perfect wintriness of a snowy day in DC.
Enjoy it till it melts!
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Still Life with Robin is published on the Cleveland Park Listserv
and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.
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