Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Wait just a minute -- the television news just came on, and they opened with the weather: "Could Baltimore be about to get this winter's first snowfall?"

No, it absolutely could not! Or ... what the hell was that inch of white stuff I had to sweep off my car before a midnight grocery run a couple of weeks ago?

Sheesh. "First". Harrumph.

Addendum: half an hour after that news bit I griped about, I wandered upstairs to see what was going on with the siren I'd heard and a series of thumps. Snow is falling quite dramatically (I guess they had to get that "will it snow?" thing in just under the wire before the weather answered it for them), and it appears the basement of a vacant house catty-corner from me is on fire. There's one fire truck and two police cars, thick smoke is pouring out of a basement window as far as I can tell (the fire truck is in the way, but that's where it looks like it's coming from), and folks seem to be standing around wondering what to do.

(The snow is predicted to turn to rain and wash away tomorrow, if I correctly heard the forecast I was only half listening to.)