October Snow

Hundreds of thousands in the Northeastern US are powerless. No lights. No hot water. No heat. Just flashlights, cold showers, and blankets.

I - however - am not one of them. I'm blessed by living in a new building where nature can't hold me to its wraith. I don't even shovel snow when it comes since we have somebody who handles that for us. In some ways, this is a charmed life. In other ways, I pay a lot for the privilege of living beyond nature's fury. But in any case, it's nice when huge storms like this have no apparent effect on me. Like the day last year where I got to work several hours before all the people who had gotten up in the morning to battle the storm. I can distinctly remember being the only person on the bus besides the driven that day. It was surreal, but in an empowering way. And so is the storm this past week.... it makes me feel sort of superior to be so utterly untouchable by the weather.