Snow, Trees, and the Internet

I know I have already written about how beautiful the snow is, and I stick to the philosophy. Being of the technical generation I had forgotten how inconvenient it is though. I watch most if not all my television programs on the web, I do all my banking, pay my bills, even my phone runs through my Internet system. So that being said... When the power goes out, no phone to call a friend or 911, no checking the stock market or the latest news or weather. Forget the banking, automatic payments just cause overdrafts. Another mess to clean up is what it turns into.

I am proud to say that I can still shovel snow. Two packs of cigarettes per day for 32 years add beer on that and I can still shovel with no problems! I think the health department is maybe misinformed a bit. We had 10 inches of very wet snow here, it was a wonderful workout to say the least, but I still did better than a 22 year old.

Trees, I love them, they are down all over the place here and it looks as if we are getting 18-24 inches in the next day or so. I expect to do more sawing by hand (I don't own a chainsaw) lose my Internet and phone connections, lose my electric. I know I sound like I am bitching but hear me out.

Every generation is raised differently, my point being we never relied on the Internet growing up. I have books, playing cards, kerosene lamps, candles, food stockpiled, bullets for the guns. I am ready and prepared for the next round of snow if it is really as bad as they say. Is the younger generation? Did the information handed down really get absorbed? If McDonald's can't open can they still find something to eat?

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