Random Thoughts

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Life in a smallish town...local FB page post - Walmart closed at 7 tonight!

This follows posts asking how the roads are.  They are frozen and slick, just like during every other ice storm.  smh

OMG - what will we do to survive?  Tomorrow the weather is to be bad, more cold and snow and sleet.  By Monday it'll be in the 60s again.  Calm down people.

 I'm reminded that as a kid (about age 11), we got 4 inches of snow, and school was closed for two days. Southern Californians just can't deal. My dad drove to work, anyway. That was nothing, compared to what he drove through in Minnesota.

When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a mom and pop grocery store.  That was the year we had the April blizzard.  This was eastern Iowa so it's not like we weren't used to snow.  But this was snow to the extreme.  My boss picked me up on his snowmobile and brought me to the store.  The guy my age who worked there came in on his family's snowmobile.  Then the snowmobile club answered calls from people around town who needed emergency supplies...mostly the elderly and those with small kids.  Dennis and I 'worked' the store.  And had snowball fights in the aisles.  pffft to Walmart having to close at 7.  LOL