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The mid-Atlantic is getting a lot of snow, and we want it. They are not capable of handling snow like we are, they don’t want it, they can’t do anything with it, and it’s way more dangerous to people in the Washington DC-area who have no clue how to drive on snowy roads than it is to people here in WNY who have 8 months of the year to practice our snowy-road driving.

Who among us Western New Yorkers doesn’t recall with fondness when we got 6 feet of snow in only 3 days? And wasn’t the October Storm, for all its semi-benign destruction of power lines and cable TV wires, the most calm and relaxing week-long natural disaster in history?

So, it seems odd to those of us who lived through those snowstorms to have to sit back and watch the weather radar, with that distinct line of clouds that just sits right below our border with Pennsylvania. And the constant updates on facebook from our friends in Virginia, the Washington-DC area, and eastern PA–bragging to us about how much snow they’re getting, and how much more is forecast to fall before the storm is over.

And here we are, with some snow on the ground, but without full coverage. Because some of our snow has melted or blown off our lawns, we’re literally green with envy.

(color viciously enhanced by iPhoto,
so NO, this is not conjunctivitus)

Saturday night, as that wicked storm rolled into Buffalo, I was riding my bike taxi and got a big fleck of something in my eye. It was irritating my eye all night Saturday, into Sunday morning, but, sometime in the afternoon Sunday, the irritation stopped, and I thought my eye had expelled the offending mote.

Well, this morning I woke up with a log in my eye instead, and holy cow is it driving me crazy. I can barely keep my eye open. That’s okay for typing, but for anything that requires some depth perception, I’m in trouble.

UPDATE: My eye is no longer feeling irritated. When I ate the wasabi-flavored almonds my co-worker gave me today, my eyes and nose watered themselves clear. I hope this is permanent.

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