Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Someone Please Tell Grandma J That Jackie Is Not A Liar
Ever since Harry had enough of West Michigan Winters, Jackie has come to Kalamazoo to spend Monday night with Helen. Sometimes things don't work out, but for the most part they do. Helen tries to act like she doesn't want Jackie to go to the effort to come, and she will swoon; "Oh, Bob will miss you!", to which Jackie replies that Bob loves to sit in front of the TV with his remote, scanning all 75 channels about every 2 minutes, driving her crazy, and what a relief it is to let Bob have a night by himself to flip channels. So believing that she is doing Jackie and Bob a favor by letting Jackie stay Monday nights, everything normally goes very well. 
However, last week the weather was really bad and Jackie couldn't come. We had a big one day thaw this Sunday, with a lot of rain, but then it got a lot colder and we started to get into a Lake effect mode. Jackie actually started out mid-afternoon Monday to go to Kzoo, but turned around at the D&W, thinking "this is crazy". The roads were icy, it was snowing hard, and the wind was blowing. So she called her mom to let her know that it just wasn't possible to get there that day. "Um, it's sunny here" says Helen. "Maybe I see a wisp of snow". After about 20 minutes of conversation, in which I hear Jackie say about 10 times; "It really is snowing pretty hard here", she tells Helen that she will try to make it Tuesday. The above picture shows our weather Tuesday morning. I talk to a truck driver who was on M6 in Grand Rapids, and he said that it was total black ice, with a lot of delivery trucks having slid off. All of our roads around here are icy, and we are still in that Lake effect mode, so no trip to the city of promise today. Post script. Remember that play with the great title, "Your arms too short to box with God"? That's what I think of when I see Jackie try to toss the snow far enough over the pile that it doesn't fall short and slide back onto the driveway. Post Script 2. Why go to Colorado to ski? Our slopes are a short walk from the house, with great hot chocolate after a hard day of schussing.
# posted by Bob @ 5:05 PM 
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haha k-zoo didn't get hit near as hard as we have up here(i was down there house sitting for my parents who decided they were sick of this weather and jetted off to florida). gotta love lake effect!
People out here freak out when there is an inch of snow. I saw a news report forecasting a tiny bit of snow and they were putting snow chains on the bus tires! I can only imgaine what would happen if we got that much snow.
I'm sure Grandma held Jackie to her word and made her come Tuesday. Hopefully it wasn't still snowing!
All I can say is my dad called from San Juan and it was 80 degrees. He then called from St. Thomas and it was 85 degrees. He also informed me that he and my mom had too much sun on the ship one day and had to stay inside the next day. Boo hoo.
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