almost out of the hell created by enzo

This is me, all dressed up with no place to go, to paraphrase Meat Loaf.

 

Hard to believe it's been three years, to the date, since I wrote about his death and that song.

 

I was supposed to have an in-person appointment with my PCP today, but Enzo's frozen Hell caused that to be changed yesterday into a Video type.

 

Today, just about an hour ago, the 6-month check-up morphed into two phone calls, one from nurse Sarah, the other from Ms. Susan Barker.

We're all having a bit of cabin fever, but took time to engage in some laughter.

 

That was good.

 

None of us have seen anyone outside our houses since this all began.

Clearly folks in my neighborhood have been driving, crushing the icy ruts into liquid which will freeze again tonight.

My little Saturn has been shedding its mantle of white, as has the driveway.

That gives me hope of perhaps taking the car on a tour of our environs tomorrow, after the ground has again warmed away the black ice.

I certainly don't want us to end up topsy-turvy like this idiot.

 

CEMA posted this on fb, repeating its warning: stay off the streets!

 

The city is trying hard to make our roadways safe, but Looney Toon characters keep taking their clown cars - with no snow tires, no snow chains - out for a spin.

 

Literally and figuratively.

The transplants from northern states are definitely part of the problem.

 

I watched one of them almost slide into the light pole as they tried to maneuver this turn.

 

They're a bit spoiled, having come from towns that have snow plows and salt trucks, towns that have winter cold from October through May.

 

That's not what we have at 32 degrees N latitude.

 

Moreover, that's not what we want, either.

 

Nor is it what the transplants want.

 

I'm ready to have nights that don't go below freezing for hours and hours... but that won't be until Sunday.

 

I'm ready for days that don't come with a -12 wind chill that detracts from their temperatures during the day.

 

I'm ready to get out of Hell...

please.