survival lessons.

the office closed at 1pm today because the school district closed at 12:45pm because everything is covered in ice.

watch the trees get iced over and the branches slowly sink...

ooo, the lights are flickering. and i hear sirens.

didn't i do this 10 years ago? yeah. the jan 1998 ice storm. shut down the city of montreal for a solid week because the power to the city's resevoir went out and there was no drinkable water. i later heard it took some people in the outlying areas 9 days to get electricity back and they were building tents of blankets around fireplaces until the mounties came by distributing generators.

that time, i was playing a videogame on my computer and didn't even notice the power went out because the laptop switched over seamlessly to battery power.

darn. no games for the mac.

well, if i survived that one, i ought to have no trouble with this little bit of ice. we even have wood for the fireplace.