Two Posts in one day Yay!

This is a reprint from my old LJ but I thought it would be nice to put it in here as its a good companion to Chandra's "Being Rooted" piece. Her house is my second home and during a huge winter storm I was stuck there for about 3 days. What follows is a short account of the Winter storm of 2008. Well, one of them anyway, this is, afterall, ohio . . .

I actually just got home from my friends house in Cleveland. I went there because she lives close to where I work and I didn't want to drive home in the dark on Friday. It finally stopped snowing around midnight last night.

Even tho most of the main roads got cleared late last night, by 5 p.m. there was still no sign of snow plows on any of the side streets. If I had to guess, the city didn't want to pay the extra overtime to clear residents out of their houses. There was about 16 inches of snow on the street, so my friends and I went out and began to shovel the street, soon other people in the neighborhood began to shovel too. One guy brought out his snowblower and used it till he ran out of gas. It took a couple of hours to clear a lane with all the folks working.

Residents of West XXXst Street Cleveland, You Rock!

Mayor Frank Jackson, I hope you freeze in a snow drift 6 feet deep!