OMG

I turned on the 'tube' a few minutes ago, expecting to hear the latest Tiger Wood gossip but ... was met by an urgent weather bulletin.
WINTER STORM WARNING it said on the crawler creeping along the bottom of the screen.  Thinking that my satellite was somehow receiving a Michigan weather station, I quickly double checked the channel only to discover it was really one from Mobile Alabama.  I turned up the volume to hear the weatherman tell folks that 'if they had never seen snow before, plan on driving about 60 miles north from the coast for this rare event Friday evening'.  This is a big deal down here.  Every station on the hour warning of the coming storm!
 
Expecting upwards to 1 inch  of the white stuff in isolated areas, the local road commission is probably out trying to find a salt truck while the local folks are trying to find tire chains at the local Sears store.  I poke a little good natured fun at the locals but I wonder how us Michiganders would react to one of their all too frequent hurricanes?

But ... one of the reasons we left Michigan some 1100 miles away ... was to avoid hearing these weather bulletins ...  but we just can't seem to escape them.

So here we sit.  The hot water heat system is running, it now gets dark before 5:00pm (Central time here), and it's too darn cold to be outside. 

Shivering but still livin' the dream,

Phil