Posts Tagged ‘snowstorm’
This is the real reason you go shopping before a snowstorm
Daniel Engber of Slate offers an explanation as to why people behave like idiots before a snowstorm, rushing off to a grocery store that will undoubtedly be open at some point the next day. The word is hunkering, in the specifically American sense of digging in and taking shelter. It’s the anxious form of self-indulgence,…
Read MoreBread bags on your feet was apparently a thing. Not just my family’s desperate attempt to keep our feet dry in the snow.
Staring at the photographs from the enormous snowfall in Buffalo, I was reminded of the Blizzard of ‘78 in Massachusetts. I was only seven years-old at the time, but I remember it well. My hometown of Blackstone and the surrounding towns of Lincoln, Smithfield, Woonsocket, and North Smithfield were the hardest hit, reporting more…
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