Snow

The snow hit Cincy hard yesterday and last night. Two separate storms, one giant dump. A series of Level-2 and -3 winter emergencies all across the Tri-State, and 40,000 people without power--people, breathing warmth into hands cold and hard as porcelain, baking with the gas oven open just to make kitchens bearable, or lying under folded blankets to contain body heat. There is no driving to warmer climes, no cars idling in driveways or around corners, no cars at all, on the roads, anywhere, besides plows and patrols.

Drivers will be ticketed in Cincinnati today if there is no emergency drawing them out of their homes. The roads are empty but of walkers, puffy with layers and hats. Almost every business, and certainly every school and daycare, is closed today, a white, gray, and blue day, a snow day.

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So in other words, we're off again today.