“Advisory: Heavy drifted snow has made multiple roads impassable. Vehicles are getting stuck. Crews are clearing roads. Travel not advised.” – The Haines Borough Police Department
There’s that, and pretty much everything is closed. Since no one should be out, the pool, the clinic, the library, the Borough office, the bank, the lumberyard. It was wonderful to hear Angie and Nate on KHNS so early this morning. Nate said he walked over, and Angie? Maybe she snowboarded? After the news, Nate even played some classical music, Bach, which calmed everyone down. The blizzard is on its third day and more snow is on the way. Like the old days. Like Alaska used to be. Ridiculous. Epic, and a tad unnerving. As an old Alaskan once said about dog mushing at 50 below: It’s okay as long as everything is okay. Let’s hope it stays that way.
Meanwhile.. the texts from local family and friends keep pinging: Ferry turned around due to icing…Making chicken soup… Soon I’ll have to go out and check vents…The Borough gave up getting up Young Rd….I’m going to shovel now…. Been at the computer all morning…Good luck! …. It’s even worse than it looks…Yikes our TV just went out… LA Rams game tonight…Maybe you need to shovel the dish?…We have got to dig out our decks and I’m wondering about our roof?… After eating a doz large choc chip cookies for breakfast I’m ready to shovel the whole town…Thank you for contacting me… I have snow plowing scheduled…This weather makes me feel old and incapable…There’s a lot of snow down here on the boat waist high…Time to do Wordl…In case you didn’t know, motion sensor farting ninjas are a real thing… Are you okay over there?… We are just riding it out… This is IMPRESSIVE… Still snowin’…
More snow is forecast for the rest of today, tonight, tomorrow and on through the week. And thank goodness we have no place to go, and the fire is delightful, my son-in-law is making his family’s special Italian meatballs and spaghetti for dinner and Henry is fine with cocoa and Christmas cookies for lunch. It may be time for a Christmas movie. Think the kids will watch While You Were Sleeping with Me?
