choco_frosh | Tweeting the Great Blizzard of 2015

7ish: [stumbles out of bed to use the bathroom; looks out window.]Well, it's definitely a blizzard, but it doesn't look any worse than, say, the South German blizzard of '06.

8ish: Well. Huh. We have power. We have water.
We do NOT have hot water. Looks like our furnace/water-heater-thingie chose the WORST possible moment to crap out.
(That was a really uncomfortable shower.)

8:30ish: I'm just gonna have to find good excuses for leaving the oven on most of the day. (I guess I was planning on baking anyway, though I checked 'cookies' off the list last night, and I'm not going to be eating dinner here this evening...)

10ish: drat, I don't actually have any stew beef. So much for that idea.

11:00: OK, enough procrastinating: time for sledding!
11:05: It is cold as a yeti's BALLS out.
11:10: I guess it's mostly the wind.
11:12: On the other hand, that means I think the Eastern Prom. is NOT a good idea.
11:15: Sledding in the street!
11:16: Some guy's trying to drive UP this street. I detour onto the sidewalk. It turns out he's delivering a coffee to a shut-in friend. what.
11:20: At the OTHER local sledding hill.
11:21: Well that was fun, but now I have to walk back up. And avoid stepping in my sled run. Which is tricky when your glasses are covered with snow.
11:25: This sled's steering is really tricky.
11:30: $%^(*& it, between the whiteout and my glasses I can't see well enough to figure out how to make this sledding hill work. Time to head home.

12:40: Mitbewohner emerges and learns that we don't have hot water.
12:45: Mitbewohner comes to the obvious conclusion that maybe someone OTHER than us was inept enough to hit the breaker switch for the furnace instead of the basement lightswitch.
12:46: Eat ALL the cookies!
12:50: We have heat again!