[Not A Snowbird]

I think today is the one year anniversary of that three-day snow and ice storm that closed everything down. I couldn't get out of my driveway because of the ice.

My husband had to drive to Portland that night, so he took the 4-wheel drive vehicle. It took him nearly five hours to go 150 miles. Scary, scary, scary.

[blackdog]

My wife is still an emotional wreck. She spent a month in Astoria, refusing to drive at all to the mill. She took cabs instead and expensed them. The whole frickin place came to a standstill for the better part of a week.

She, a normally kind gentle soul mentioned slaughtering the damned seals barking all night outside her hotel room. She relocated to some dump motel closer to the mill, but without those damn seals barking all night! Night and day were irrelevant, as she couldn't identify the sun or moon for the full time she was there. Nothing but fog, mist, rain, and ice all 24/7.