Monday, January 16, 2012

There might be snow

Posted by Reverend Ref + at 5:00 PM

As I headed out for church yesterday morning, there were big flakes coming down. The kind of snowflakes that, had I been living in places where I've lived in the past, I would have said, "Oh boy . . . here it comes."

But I do not live in places where I've lived in the past. I live here. And those flakes simply faded away like dust bunnies scurrying back under the bed.

Several people were absent from church yesterday because of the road conditions.

I received a call today from the chair of a diocesan board I now serve on cancelling tomorrow's meeting because the weather report indicated there might be snow.

Lately I've been working on my "gentle tone of understanding" I present to people when given this excuse. As opposed to the (probably overly) snarky response of, "Are you serious?? You're canceling because there **might** be snow? Whatever."

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2 comments:

Mark J | 10:35 PM, January 16, 2012  

Last February in Oklahoma the governor declared a state of emergency the day before it began to snow, based only on the forecast.

Lady Anne | 11:29 AM, January 17, 2012  

One of our former rectors was from Minnesota and had VERY little patience with people who flew into a panic when we got an inch of snow. My dad's last parish was in Roxboro, NC and I was going to get him something for Christmas that would make it easier to put the chains on his car. He told me not to bother. "Down here, they close up shop when it's over a quarter inch." I guess it's all in what you are used to handling. Baltimore does fairly well in the snow, but for some reason Washington seems to think of itself as a southern city, and always acts highly offended when it snows.

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