Snowmaggedon, Snowpocalypse, Snotopia, Sno My God Can We Stop Already? · Feb 5, 23:40

I thought I’d post to let everyone know it’s snowing here. No, don’t thank me, two people who live on Pluto who haven’t spent the last 48 hours obsessing about the snow.

People in glass houses you know….. I am obsessing too. It’s super fun and definitely not the norm. I can’t stop hoping we get 3 feet, or more, how fun!

I keep thinking how we’re really not that different from our ancestors. Are we really that different from the Incas praying to Illapu for rain? Is refreshing the weather.com page less of a ritual, less faithful, less of a desperate human wish to control what we cannot?

We have a sturdy house, a fireplace, plenty of wood, plenty of food and we like most of the Eastern seaboard will be almost certainly be just fine. We’ll be more than fine; we’ll have fun, we’ll sled, we’ll miss entirely the catastrophe it could be were it not for those few saving graces I mentioned. But being outside just now, even for a few minutes, made me realize that save my modern conveniences, we don’t control the weather at all. When it comes to hurricanes and blizzards and thunderstorms and tsunamis and earthquakes and tornadoes, we’re at the mercy of same Gods as a thousand years ago.

It makes me feel ancient and precious and a bit put in my place.

— LCM

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  1. Around the time the snow started yesterday, I was picking up my children. I watched the first flakes come down and thought, “In the old days, people had nooo idea what was coming.”

    — Claire · Feb 06, 09:17 AM · #

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