A Snow Day

It snowed. A lot.

The streets are slick with melting slick slush, tinted brown with car exhaust. It's the kind of slush that slips into your shoes and stains your socks. It stopped snowing a little while ago, and now the sky is a dreary gray. A bland, "blah" color that threatens more snow and hides the sun.

Welcome to Nebraska. Later today we go into a flood warning because the sun will escape from behind the clouds to burn away the ice and snow. The weather here is so haphazard and it's a miracle that the meteorologists still have a job.

Sometimes I wonder if they'd be more accurate by throwing darts at a spinning board labeled with types of weather.

So it's gray. Right now it's like a black-and-white photo. But it's possible that in five minutes the clouds will all part and the sun will shine and we'll all get washed away like the itsy-bitsy spider.