The calming effects of a brewing storm - I'm going on storm watch.

The national weather service is all agog and the local weather anchors are having their middle winter field day. It appears that sometime late tonight into our grey lives some snow will fall and tomorrow, at this time, we, on the eastern part of Long Island, will have a nor'easter, not horrible cold but cold enough, and a foot or two of snow.

I'm sure you all remember back when, and this is if you are from the northern tier of states, waking up to the complete silence that is an overnight snow.  Boots crunching through it as you walked to school, the wisps of smoke from chimneys..all those magic images that now are more in black/white/and gray in memory than real. 

Anyway, have to go to the store for essentials now as by 8am it will be packed.  It isn't that this is going to be a horrible earth shattering storm but what breaks down in these things is distribution and transportation.  A two day event that won't end until some time Thursday, with local governments all out of money for overtime plowing and sanding, means that no food trucks will hit the one local store until the weekend at best so you go now or you don't bother as folks buy food by dtes on the label with the new stuff going fast and the old stuff...well you can't get to a hospital to get your stomach pumped either.
Listen to some nice pre-storm music (Britten's four sea interludes)....find your shovel....you'll get an update at noon.