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Blizzard, Schmizzard
An important update
Yesterday in The Calm Before the Blizzard I wrote about an impending storm. We were under a blizzard warning. Well, the blizzard came and the blizzard went. It dumped a meager two inches of snow and the winds were never severe.
Sorry, but that is not a blizzard. Earlier in the week we had a storm that dumped six inches with howling winds and the weather people called that merely a ‘snowstorm.’ The word, blizzard, never came up.
So what’s the difference between a snowstorm and a blizzard?
That’s not a joke. I’m asking.
The big question, though, is, What difference does it make? What does it matter? Why must everything be labeled?
The important big news is that after an overcast early morning we now suddenly have a cloudless blue sky. Finally! Hallelujah!
So I may have to cut my writing short and go outside to absorb some of that life-giving sunshine. I am thinking perhaps a picnic is in order.
I know everyone is dying to hear about my latest picnic adventures since I took the Picnic Pledge back in January. I had one picnic in January and one so far in February so I’ve got to get one more in this month in order to double the previous month. March will have four picnics and April will have eight.
