the saga continues
Jan. 24th, 2005 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swingchickieday 3 of this sonic death cold. jeez. i actually feel worse today than i did yesterday. turns out i'm not the only one in my group who's sick... at least one of my co-workers has the same thing. i'd love to know who gave it to us, so i can sock 'em in the mouth.
my car is absolutely buried outside. no lie. i'll have to take a photo of it before the ex and his roomie dig it out. the snow is over the WINDOWS. no-one on my street is completely shovelled out... most people got halfway through yesterday and were too exhausted to continue. it was a -20 wind chiil, and the winds were fierce, so i'm impressed people did anything at all.
there were some sad stories from the storm yesterday. most heartbreaking was a little boy, i think he was 10, who died... he was playing in the falling snow with his friends, and was getting cold, but he knew if he went into his apartment they'd have him come in for the night... so he climbed in the family car and started it up to warm up. but the tailpipe was blocked with snow... and he died of carbon monoxide poisoning. the poor thing. they also showed a lot of people whose homes were ruined... south of boston they got about 32 inches, and the shoreline was hit really bad with all the wind and everything. the homes that were a block or so from the ocean, actually got frozen shut. i've never seen anything like it. the roads flooded with sea water, the strong winds blew it onto the houses, and the cold sealed it up as ice. so people couldn't get in or out. one man who had an oceanfront home showed what had happened to him... the waves actually washed up and broke a window, pouring tons of water inside, which then froze. so the inside of his house is a skating rink.
so even though i'm bummed about being sick, i'm much better off today than other people. have to be thankful for that.
oh, and go pats and "iggles". who the hell am i gonna root for in that game???
my car is absolutely buried outside. no lie. i'll have to take a photo of it before the ex and his roomie dig it out. the snow is over the WINDOWS. no-one on my street is completely shovelled out... most people got halfway through yesterday and were too exhausted to continue. it was a -20 wind chiil, and the winds were fierce, so i'm impressed people did anything at all.
there were some sad stories from the storm yesterday. most heartbreaking was a little boy, i think he was 10, who died... he was playing in the falling snow with his friends, and was getting cold, but he knew if he went into his apartment they'd have him come in for the night... so he climbed in the family car and started it up to warm up. but the tailpipe was blocked with snow... and he died of carbon monoxide poisoning. the poor thing. they also showed a lot of people whose homes were ruined... south of boston they got about 32 inches, and the shoreline was hit really bad with all the wind and everything. the homes that were a block or so from the ocean, actually got frozen shut. i've never seen anything like it. the roads flooded with sea water, the strong winds blew it onto the houses, and the cold sealed it up as ice. so people couldn't get in or out. one man who had an oceanfront home showed what had happened to him... the waves actually washed up and broke a window, pouring tons of water inside, which then froze. so the inside of his house is a skating rink.
so even though i'm bummed about being sick, i'm much better off today than other people. have to be thankful for that.
oh, and go pats and "iggles". who the hell am i gonna root for in that game???
