Innermost Thought

I have been in New York City for a little over 2 years and I am just now experiencing my first "real" snow; a blizzard. It's amazing really. While holed up in Rhett's apartment working on future projects and putzing around, I can look out my window and see furious flurries of snow. I can also chart how things are going by how much of the cars parked out front I can still see. It's quite amazing really.

Some interesting trivia: In late 1888 there was a blizzard so bad that electric lines buckled and garbage, already a problem so bad that the wealthy created elevated stoops in front of their homes, built up on the streets with no means of removal. Because of this blizzard, the movement for "the invisible city" an underground network of electric lines and transportation gained momentum and culminated in our current electric network and subway system. The same blizzard also galvanized support for a systematic removal of refuse managed by the public sector making garbage and sanitation recognized as a public health hazard to be dealt with by the public. Another interesting note; last year we got 3 and 1/2 inches of snow. This year so far we have received over 25 inches. All I can think is "yeehaw!" the fountains will be running this summer as we most likely won't have drought conditions because of it.

Rhett wants to jump out of his second floor window so that he can land on a soft bed of piled-high snow. I asked that he wait until the next blizzard so that I might have some sort of CPR training.

As furious as it is, all people can talk about is how it's not as bad as the '96 blizzard. Geez! I was dealing with sun on my face and sand in my suit in Aruba in '96. They think they are special because they were here for the big blizzard of '96. New York Elitists. I suppose it's just the circle of life here. I have to admit when people tell me when they first got here I think of them differently if it was after September 2001. I suppose years from now, in the next blizzard as the snow falls about me, I will watch the silent white spectacle and think, "that's nice, but it can't beat the blizzard of '03."