SNOW DAY

Alright, so I lied. I sometimes do that. In January 2010 I wrote that I would never write another blog unless someone commented on the blog I had just written. Someone commented, thank you K, and so I wrote another blog in December. No one's commented in many months but I think that I should just write more blogs even if people don't comment. Hopefully it'll bring comments and followers. I need to proceed into the darkness and pull the light towards me. In other words, by writing more blogs I might be able to concoct more posts that might draw readers' attention. So without further ado, here's a new blog.

A snow day. When you think of those three words, what do you think of? Probably a city blanketed in snow. Snow up to your waist. Doors frozen solid and the snow's almost at the door handle. Power lines down, roads blocked, school's cancelled. You can't shovel because there's nowhere to put it and your car's stuck in the driveway, buried under the white fluffiness. Mother nature at her worst. It's an official snow day in Toronto but it shouldn't be. People were expecting this freak snowstorm that we never got. They cancelled meetings in advance and even the schools are closed today. Except for UofT, maybe they figured that, like me, the snow's not a huge obstacle for students. There are still cars on the road, not very many though as usual, and I was still able to shovel. Flights were cancelled or severely delayed, but that I understand. From what I saw on the television, it looked as if the sky was so blurry that someone stuck up a very large grey blanket overtop of the sky making it impossible for a pilot to see anything. It's probably cleared up by now. Seriously though, we've had this much snow before and the city didn't complain. Maybe I'm missing something, I'm not sure, but from the looks of outside it seems drivable and walkable. The police have cautioned drivers to drive slowly due to the weather conditions but that's not new. The only time I remember having a snow day was about three years ago. First off, it was brutally cold and there literally was a small blizzard outside. When I looked out the window, it didn't look like such a great day to walk to school but I did. I had turned on the television before hoping for a snow day but the weatherman did say that some schools were closed but not mine or any in the area. When I got to school it wasn't until second period that they announced a snow day. The wind was picking up speed and more snow was falling. It angered me though because I had already trekked the way here just to find that my journey had been useless. Still, I was happy it was a snow day. The next day though there was school. Snow days never usually last more than a day I've found, unless they're critically severe like maybe the one I sort of described at the beginning of this post. Of course, if I was in school, I would be ecstatic that schools are closed but I would still chuckle at the fact that Toronto needs to calm down because the city can still function. I hear that there's more snow to come, but by the looks of things it'll probably only be a few more centimetres. Guess we'll just have to wait and see though.