No more kaynehores! (Part Two)

Before we moved out here, everyone told us that it rarely ever snows in Maryland and if it does, they get just an inch and schools close because they don't know how to handle that much snow. That being the gist of things, we didn't make an effort to buy new boots for the kids (thankfully the ones they have still fit). We had a shovel and a huge bag of salt locked away in our storage shed, thinking we'd never need them. Then we got dumped on in mid-December, during a weekend we had a friend visiting from Chicago. I figured this wasn't anything new for her, but it was annoying that we couldn't take her downtown before she had to head back. After that huge storm, you'd think the affected communities would get a wake-up call about how to prepare for such situations. However, that was not the case, aside from closing schools for longer than necessary. I guess everyone thought that would be the last of the snow. However, we got even more dumped on this weekend. It's like being in a snow tundra! There are people naming this "blizzard" all over Facebook. I have to wonder if we got the kaynehore for making fun of all the snow in Chicago or for letting people tell us that it didn't snow much here and clinging to that belief. In any case, while it's an annoying inconvenience, it hasn't sent us running to Miami and we got to bond with our next door neighbors a lot this Shabbos (and afterward too). There's now a path between our kitchen door and their laundry room door for easy access between houses. :)