#snow panic

Creepy overly-serious announcer voice: "It just started snowing in Ghost's small Missouri town. Let's watch the panic ensue when everyone and their dog decides to go buy milk, bread, and eggs at exactly the same time. Ghost, if you will?” Ghost, bundled up in five layers: "Yeah, screw you narrator. It’s cold out there and it ain’t gonna last. This is Muh-ZUR-ruh, not Uh-LASS-kuh.”

CO-SAV: “And there you have it. Some people just don’t have the sense to panic over flurries.”

Panic over a snowstorm makes us look silly OH NO! Six Inches of Snow!! Living in suburban Washington DC, we don’t get much snow. Officially part of The South (South of the Mason Dixon Line), snow is infrequent. BUT not unheard of, not unprecedented. In the past hundred years the area has had snow storms of 28 inches (1928), 40 inches in 2010, (dubbed Snowmageddon), and 25 inches in 2016. Other…

This was the scene here all last week and weekend.

This is an obvious scene of fear and panic.. Times Square, empty during the Blizzard of 2015 that became the Fizzler of the new year.. I am amazed that the city that never sleeps wouldn't venture out to enjoy a kiss under the lights during the snow.. or hot coffee and snowball fights on a city street.. I am sort of sad seeing this. If you go through the annals of history when big storms actually hit, the entire city was out and about, doing the same thing they'd be doing if it was sunny and warm..

But this year, with this new found generation if wimps, we hide and 'hunker down.'  We play video games and stare at the endless supplies of bread and milk purchased in near empty stores.

Don't get me wrong, weather can be dangerous during storms. Blizzards can also be horrendous with massive power outages and winds that can kill. 

But this storm was not that. At least not for millions of people who were told their lives were about to end and their island would be disconnected from the United States, sent out to drift, and subject to alien spaceshifts playing target practice on big buildings in the Atlantic Ocean. Okay. Maybe that is not what was said.. but what was said obviously led to fear and panic..

In New York State, the travel ban imposed by the Governor would say that you get a $300 fine if you get in your car. Sheesh..

Are we not able to endure any challenge anymore?

Last night during the brief snow that hit my part of Pennsylvania, I took my dog for a walk and noticed several yards were covered in footprints, sleigh paths, and tunnels. It was amazing to see the work of children playing their hearts out on a cold and school-less winter day. 

But that is not the scene in the trendy Big Apple. At least not according to the evidence supplied by this photo.. This photo shows an opposite era than one in the past. Now we hide behind walls and computer screens. We live blog our reactions, and we Tweet about weather.

But we don't get out and enjoy it. Play in it. Live in it.

Live a little. It's snow. And obviously, it's not the big storm promised..

I love the energy of Times Square. I think a lot of people missed out on that energy by hiding away from flakes as they fell ...

BUT THEN.. Just when hope is lost.. and image comes across a wire like this: People acting like children in the snowy city:

And this:

The only problem for America: Our handstand friend is from Liechtenstein.