BRAINPAN LEAKAGE

No, EK isn’t doing the “June Cleaver Dominatrix” thing…Although, I think I’ll have to discuss that with her later, could be fun…ahem… But, let’s keep this family oriented for the time being…

So, some of you are/were expecting to see me in the Detroit area at ConVocation this weekend. That is still a possibility, but it is kind of up in the air…Why? Because it is up in the air, not me.

I was scheduled to fly out today… In fact, I am theoretically supposed to be boarding a plane right this minute… However, Momma Nature is the one strapping on the leather and stilettos this go around, and because she is in such a bitchy mood, my flight got canceled. (see below)

fig 1. The fateful canceled e-ticket

fig 2. What the National Weather Service has to say about things

fig 3. A map to go with the diatribe

fig 4. Radar imagery of the evil poo falling on my head

Soooo… As it stands right now, I have been re-booked on a flight leaving at Oh-Dark-Thirty tomorrow (02/22) morning. Of course, as you can see from the map and the weather service notice this storm probably isn’t going to end until sometime tomorrow afternoon. Therefore, my flight could get canceled again.

Right now it is just a waiting game…But, I’m here to tell you, this storm is VERY un-pretty, and just getting worse…

More to come…

Murv

Relax. It’s all good.

Having been in other parts of the country while on tour, settling in to my hotel room and grabbing a quick look at the news before crashing, I know that things can get blown out of proportion by the national news. Like, the time they were reporting killer storms all but leveling Saint Louis when I was on the east coast. When I called my wife to check on her and the munchkin’s safety, I was met with, “What? It sprinkled here for a bit. Minor shower, but that’s about it.” (This is not to say we’ve never had killer storms, as we certainly have…remember that power outage a couple of years back? And the flood of ’93? Well those were certainly real…)

My point is, you can’t always believe what you hear on the news, so if you are in some part of the country, looking at some talking head on the tube who is telling you that Saint Louis has come to a standstill because of a massive blizzard burying the city…Well, change the channels.

Yes, we did get a healthy snowstorm here. It started yesterday afternoon and ended around 4:30 – 5:00 AM today…At times it was heavy… Up to 1.5 inches per hour… But, when all was said and done we only got hit with a little over 8 inches of the white stuff. Minor inconvenience. Not a citywide emergency by any stretch of the imagination.

Anywho, here are some pictures to prove that everything is okay here and that we aren’t really buried forever, never to thaw…

There…Now EK can go to work and make money to support me in the style to which I am accustomed… (Grin)

I started shoveling around 5:45AM…Only took about a half hour. The worst part was the end of the driveway where the street department had plowed and deposited a substantial snowbank…

From the front porch…

Gotta get the hedge trimmers hold of those shrubs this spring. They never got their final 2007 “haircut” last fall and they grow like nobody’s business.

Do, Do, Do, Lookin’ Out My Back Door…

Yeah…The neighbors are too damn close here in the burbs… But, EK doesn’t want to move to the country.