Blizzard Blues

Winter has barely begun, and the first snowstorm of the season is a full-fledged blizzard - a classic nor'easter in every sense of the word (and the winds to match). I've already had to shovel the snow in our two-car driveway thrice (three times), and I've only been able to do our front walk once.

Oh yeah, we live on a corner and the driveway is on our side, meaning our front walk goes all the way to the sidewalk. And to think my mother bought our house in the month of December and didn't once contemplate the consequences of snowstorms.

I'm still reeling from the big snowstorms that hit my neck of the woods this past February, the kind of snowstorms people were calling "Snowmageddon." One knocked our power out - the first time our electricity had ever been knocked out by a  snowstorm. But you already know about that.

I hope this Boxing Day blizzard is the worst storm we get this winter. A six-inch snowfall will seem like nothing compared to this.