Snowed in

It's a little after 5 p.m. Saturday, and I can no longer see out of any of my windows — they're encased in snow.

I'm sure it's a scene common across about a third of the country as this winter storm pushes up from the south and through the Midwest and into the Northeast.

I'm a little upset about it, too, because I'm not good at sitting at home. I'd rather be shopping, or even just driving around. Not even I'm crazy enough to do that, however.

So far this afternoon, I've stood and watched four autos of various types get stuck on my street, which hasn't been touched by a snowplow. Currently, a minivan sits abandoned at the end of my driveway, about 5 hours after the driver foolishly tried to pass down the street. A couple of the private snowplow drivers also got stuck.

That was the sign that I shouldn't even try to leave home, no matter how much I wanted to hit the Macy's buy-one-get-one-free clearance sale.

I'm pretty convinced this is the most snow I've ever seen fall in my lifetime. I was around for the Blizzard of 1978, but I don't recall it being quite this bad. I'm just on the edge of the snow belt, so I can't even imagine how bad it is in Chardon.

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Hopefully we'll see the end of this storm soon. I have shopping to do!!