The Roaring Lion...
You know the old saying "March comes in like a lion and goes
out like a lamb"? I'm not sure where the phrase started, but it
often seems true. When March begins it's still winter and by the time
it's over, we've entered spring.
We're not very far into
the month, but to me it seems like the March lion is roaring and
pouncing! At least that's what I see for my section of the world (that
would be the northeast). We were just two days into it when we got
slammed with a Nor'easter. I thought that meant wind and rain (based on
the information I'd gotten BEFORE Friday), but it turned out that it was wind,
rain, ice, and snow. In other words, a couple mess. (Actually I
could use more descriptive terminology, but I'm trying to keep things
family friendly for the moment!) I was on the fence about driving into
work that morning (if you're from North Jersey, you know what a horror show
Route 3 can be in the rain) until I drove my son and his friend to school that
morning. When I pulled out of the garage at 7:26 it was raining.
When my son got in the car the rain was turning to sleet. When we picked
up his friend, it was sleeting quite hard. By the time I got home ice was
building up on the perimeter of my windshield. As a result I decided to
bag the commute (thank GOD for technology and being able to work remotely and
for a boss and company that understands that!) and put the car in the
garage. Seven and a half hours later when I went to pick up the boy, I
had to use an ice scraper as a cane/crutch to get down the hill to the garage
as the drive way was a mess of ice and slush with the wind whipping around me.
Miraculously, we didn't lose
power (although a text message from PSE&G informed us that they knew of an
outage in our area and were working to get it fixed) and the next day it was
warm and sunny enough for the snow and ice to melt away. (Although warm
is a relative word.)
But now word is out that we are
going to get yet ANOTHER Nor'easter on Wednesday! Less than a week later!
(Seriously Mother Nature, what ARE you thinking.) The predictions on
inches of snow vary widely: maybe only an inch or maybe over a
foot. The only thing that is solid is that Wednesday is going to be a
total mess no matter what. Talk about a roaring lion!
While I'm complaining (and why
shouldn't I?), there are a whole lot of people who STILL haven't gotten their
power restored and with this next storm bearing down on us, it looks like they
won't get it until AFTER that one comes through. (I don't even want to
think about what might come after that it's too scary of a
proposition.)
So even though we're only in
the beginning of the month, I'm ready for the lion to move on and turn the
weather over to the lamb. We need some gentler, kinder SPRING-LIKE
weather. (Maybe with a side of mint jelly?? Am I the only leg of lamb devotee
out there?)
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