12.28.01 – guess you already know.

Record snow paralyzes Buffalo, N.Y.

another snow day! the city is at a stand-still – stores are closed, driving is banned and k-mart sold it’s last snow shovel last night. apparently it’s a new record for buffalo. more than six feet of snow have fallen in the past four days. it’s been snowing all morning – i can barely see across the street right now. the city has run out of places to pile all the plowed snow, so now the national guard has come in to help truck away some of the snow, and the state prisons are sending prisoners out to dig out fire hydrants and get the snow off roofs threatening to collapse. the only movie we have here to watch is It’s a Wonderful Life (due back yesterday, but I can’t find my car under the six feet of snow, so Blockbuster will just have to wait), but Seth has some sort of personal vendetta against the film, and now he’s dragging Hannah down with him, so we’re stuck making popcorn and watching the snow fall for this afternoon.

i received the following email from an old friend:

oye, my dearest jenny, i was hoping your alumni account wasn’t up-to-date when it listed buffalo as your current residence…i just looked up the weather on cnn.com/weather, and the site’s cover story is: buffalo’s fucked. guess you already know.