Catherine mentioned in her latest Gadling Take 5 post that it's breaking up in Alaska where she lives. It's socking in in Ohio. This is the first blizzard warning we've had in central Ohio for years. Streets are a real mess--so is Port Columbus International Airport. I just heard an interview with someone who is waiting at the airport for a friend to arrive. The friend's airplane did arrive but the plane couldn't land until the runway was clear. Since it didn't have enough gas to keep circling the airport, it went onto Detroit to refuel and will be back. Flights out are getting canceled. I hope her friend likes Detroit.

We don't get much snow here so people can be a bit reactionary when snow flies. Folks have flocked to the grocery store to stock up on food. It's like people go into Little House on the Prairie mode thinking that they're stocking up for months of hard times. From what I've heard, it's going to quit snowing by tomorrow afternoon. If we didn't buy food for a week, at my house, we'd still be able to find something to eat--shriveled potatoes, perhaps. I'm wondering, though, if I should have headed to the grocery store for loaves of bread and milk, the most popular items, according to the news. The hording tendency is catching.

These are the days that remind folks that no matter how much you plan, it just might not work out. You could end up in Detroit. Not that there's anything wrong with Detroit, but only if that's where you planned to head in the first place. Or-you could be stuck in Columbus.

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