Snowmageddon

written by ashley marsh

The phenomena that takes over CBUS the same time each year. The pandemonium that engulfs the city. SNOWMAGEDDON

You get a little hint that SNOWMAGEDDON is coming when you hear there may be snow in the forecast at the end of the next 6-7 days. You want to let the thought pass but there is a small part in the back of your brain that keeps it in storage.

You go about your life the next couple of days and then you hear that little thought so you pull up the weather to double check. You find that there is in fact a storm coming. SNOW – like a foot! Ok I have a few days before this so no worries and it’s at the end of the week so we are fine.

Thursday comes and you are bombarded with weather reports stating that we will get anything from .01 inch of ice to a foot and a half of snow. And here it comes.

There is a mad dash to the grocery stores. Everyone, and I mean all of CBUS, is buying bread, milk and cases of beer and wine. – CASES PEOPLE.

The snow shovels fly off the shelves. Sleds can’t be found. Everything for the weekend starts to get cancelled because this uber huge storm is brewing and we are going to be snowed in! People leave early Friday because it is 40 degrees and cloudy so, you know we have to leave because its going to snow tomorrow.

Saturday comes, you wake up expecting a winter wonderland with feet of snow. You look out and the grass is hardly even covered and there is nothing on the streets or sidewalks. Ok, they did say snow all weekend so maybe I just got a little excited and it’s really not coming until later. So you have a hockey tournament for your oldest kiddo that day and you get everyone ready to go and take off.

By the time the first round of games are over you would think we would have 3 or 4 inches on the ground. You had planned to take the family snowboarding since there will be fresh powder – and hey you live in CBUS so there is pretty much never fresh powder. You leave the rink and there is like a dusting on the ground. What the H?

You decide to just go anyway. So you head up to Mad River Mountain and do your thing because they are awesome and have stockpiled all the snow. On the way home – still nothing more than flurries. You must have read the forecast incorrectly. I must be hitting later on this evening.

You get back home and turn on the tv because you are uber confused and want to find out when the heck the snow is coming. You know what you find out? The storm already hit and is out of here. The foot and a half of snow, the ice, the chaos – all summed up in less than a half of inch of snow and a messed up calendar because everything you had scheduled for this weekend needs to find a new home within the next week. Awesome-sauce!

Yes folks this is the recipe for CBUS! Let’s see if we called it right for this weekend! We will check back in after SNOWMAGEDDON hits! Have a wonderful and safe weekend!