BLIZZARD!

[phosfate]

So we had a massive blizzard yesterday, with 60 mph winds sending chunks of tree snow into the windows like bullets. Then the power and the wifi went out, so I hid in bed and listened to Ridiculous Crime on my phone, since I never come remotely close to using up my monthly data. Woke up two hours later when everything in the house turned back on simultaneously, scaring the hell out of me.

I love when the wifi goes out, because the wifi company sends me emails to tell me the wifi is out. "Um, you guys know that I can't...yeah, never mind."

Anyway, the Ridiculous Crime episodes about Studio 54 and Miss Cleo are pretty great.

The 7 inches of snow we got should vanish by tomorrow, because it's fucking April.

Comments

[spiralsheep]

If there is an apocalypse that can't be survived by hiding under a duvet then I don't want to be a survivor.

[phosfate]

Seriously. LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU I'M GOING TO BED is seriously underrated as a survival strategy.

I got to a point a few years ago where I was absolutely terrified of wrong noises. Bad thunderstorms. Shit hitting the window like it did yesterday. Airplane engines. Morons going down O Street on their bikes at 90 mph every time the temperature goes over 50F. (One of them hit a phone pole last fall, and it ended in exactly the way you're imagining. They're still doing it.) I was going absolutely batshit from anxiety. My pal Sharon sent me her outdated iPhone, which I couldn't use as a phone because this was when they only let you use them through Apple and the monthly charge was slightly less than my mortgage. But she talked me through jailbreaking it and suddenly I had an iPod with a fuckload of storage that I could feed my DVD collection to, and I had music during the day and white noise apps at night, and everything was fine again. (I also found a big box of earplugs on clearance that I'm still using, and it's the only way to fly.)

[spiralsheep]

I hear you about the noise sensitivity. I don't have that but I did spend a couple of years wearing sunglasses, which was more soothing than I would previously have expected.

[ashenmote]

Oh that sounds horrible. I became really attuned to the sound of dripping water specifically when I lived directly under a roof that wasn't properly maintained, which wasn't bad actually because it would only interfere with my life when it should. But many years of living lower than that cured it. Now I can like leave a window open for minor rain damage without waking up from it.

[wolfy_writing]

Dramatic! That's definitely a day to stay inside warm and cozy. Also hot cocoa!

[crantz]

I try to keep you busy, god knows I do.

Do not get Jack Shining'd in this weather, man.

[phosfate]

I'm calling him Jack Shining from now on.

The blizzard sucked up a dust storm down south and left everything with a thin crust of mud.