Hope things clear up soon for you!  If you have kids I'm sure they will be in
heaven - missing school and building snowforts instead!
In the meantime pretend you live in Nova Scotia and just reach in the fridge
for a Moosehead and sit back and read a good book.

NoraBryan
Calgary, AB
CANADA

David Kirsh wrote:

> For those of you who look up once in a while from preoccupation with
> counting plicae and notice the weather: North Carolina just got hit with a
> record-breaking snowstorm.
>
> There was 18.2 inches of snow at Raleigh-Durham Airport compared to the
> 1927 record of 17.8. Some spots have up to 22 inches and the drifts can be
> up to 5 feet. Everything is shut down. I tried to go to my job at the
> hospital and got about a hundred feet in one hour of rocking back and
> forth; then I gave up. Can't call in because the phone lines are down or
> something. Even the interstates were impassable after roadcrews had cleared
> them a couple of hours before (this was the situation until at least 1pm).
>
> Cold will continue until at least the weekend with wind chill going down to
> 11 Fahrenheit because of wind gusts to 30mph. Possible power outages in
> next couple of days.
>
> Governor Hunt declared a state of emergency for the entire state.
>
> Friends of seashells in the Northeast, this storm is headed your way.
>
> Stay warm,
> David Kirsh
> Durham, NC