JCT777 wrote:Steph - I know what you mean. I got 1.5 inches of snow, while parts of upper Bucks and upper Montgomery Counties in PA (which are literally only 20 miles to my north/northeast) got 3 to 4 inches.
Getting shafted by a storm is always painful------But there is no greater pain than the pain of getting only a very small amount of snow, or no snow at all, while the lucky dog just to your north gets several inches and gets to feast on blowing snow for days. Not that I begrudge that fortunate person their snow; I wish them all the very best powder in the world. But a near-miss shafting by a storm causes the most exquisite pain to the person who got no snow----and it's a terrible loss. Not only do you suffer the torment of no snow, you miss the blowing and drifting, you pay the price in milder temperatures because of the bare ground/atmosphere feedback loop, and those milder readings in turn bear the promise of future rain instead of snow. On top of all those wrenching heartbreaks, you don't get to shovel snow, and you did not get to enjoy the delight of observing falling snow. Your very soul cries out over all the missed opportunities of what might have been---the excitement over the snowstorm, the Winter Storm Warnings, the mad, insane scrambling for milk and bread at local stores, the wild, nonstop coverage of the local news stations, the wild hyperbole of people on the street, the word-of-mouth snow accumulation forecasts that go higher and higher by the very hour, it seems, and all the wonderful anticipation, of the shoveling, oh, the wonderful pictures of snow, the plowing, the mounds of snow piled up in your driveway by the passing plow, the winds blowing big drifts back over your shoveled walk again, and again, and again, and again, and of the spontaneous snowball fights that begin with just two or three people, but that grow to eventually involve the entire neighborhood, with distinct factions setting up and digging in and taking the fight to each other over and over again, and over this wonderful scene, the snow blowing over everyone and everything!!! and so many other truly excellent trappings of the winter snow season!!!!
Getting handed the shaft by a wayward winter storm is the true embodiment of one of Life's worst letdowns.
-JEB
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