Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Unless you're a plow driver or a parka-clad elected official trying to look essential, one doesn't pretend to do battle against a blizzard. You submit. Surrender. Hunker down. A snowstorm rewards indolence and punishes the go-getters, which is only one of the many reasons it's the best natural disaster there is.

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"And, gloriously if briefly, it hides everything else -- the plastic grocery bags and mini-marts and dog poop and salt-grimed Toyotas and sundry disorder of modernity. Watching the quotidian American crudscape transform into a fairy-tale kingdom is a legitimate wonder. Name another disaster that leaves the afflicted region more attractive in its wake."

-- David Dudley, 2016-01-22

[Go read the whole thing -- it's short, and it's beautiful. Or you can wait for me to quote more pieces of it, I guess, but it flows better the way he wrote it.]