From the comment section:
- Already I am sick of hearing about the "Great Blizzard of 2011"
"Record setting"
"Life threatening"
"Top snowstorm of ALL TIME"
"Never before in the course of human events..."
Fucking blow me already, 15 inches of snow and some wind. That's all. Big fucking deal.
WGN this morning was struggling to find enough superlatives to describe this alleged cataclysmic event. It got up to Major Major Storm before I had to vomit. Maybe they will add a third Major on there before noon.
They panned endlessly on the cars marooned in the life threatening wilderness of.... Lake Shore Drive, a mere few feet away!
Then they found two people stumbling and falling and getting up and stumbling some more and zoomed in on them. Were they the latest to be miraculously rescued from death's door in this unholy Perfect Mother of Storm of Storms?
No, they were just another news crew, cameraman and junior junior anchor with microphone in hand attempting to jump the fence onto LSD (Byrne's Alley) to interview some "survivors" of the Blizzard of Blizzards.
Were any still alive? Had they started eating each other yet? How many dead were in those cars? What heart rending tales could they tell?
Who knows, who cares?
They were busy making stories of each other covering the MegaStorm of the Millenium.
Get a life. Storm of '67 still rules, '79 is close second, '99 was worse than this.
Another cup of coffee and then back to nap time and then I will watch the Godfather trilogy. I haven't seen that since I had the flu a few years ago. And after that, the Clint Eastwood spaghetti western trio, and no I am not talking about former Italian American Streets & San Department Heads.
As far as storms go, I wouldn't put this in the top ten. In hype, yes, it is at the top, Numero Uno in Bullshit.
The wind whistles, the coyotes howl, the couch calls out it's seductive siren song...
Damn, that's almost poetry. Nicely written "anonymous."