{"id":116,"date":"2010-02-05T18:58:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T18:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/02\/hellstorm-2010-open-thread.html"},"modified":"2010-02-05T18:58:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T18:58:24","slug":"hellstorm-2010-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/02\/hellstorm-2010-open-thread.html","title":{"rendered":"HELLSTORM 2010 open thread!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am willing to open this forum up for liveblogging Snowmageddon. The first sprinkling of the white stuff has just begun to fall here in Philadelphia. It’s soft and beautiful — but that’s clearly what this Mephistophelian precipitation wants us to think. I have already put away two bowls of shrimp etouffee and a tall glass of the fantastically bitter and hoppy locally brewed Sly Fox IPA<\/a>. Diana Krall is on the music box. Ready, I am, to meet my Maker, because I am reliably informed by the news media that no one will get out of this one alive. I invite you to share your last thoughts as the End of Days arrives. UPDATE:<\/b> Run for your lives, ye miserable crawlin’ worms! Reader mm sends us a clip of the Weatherman of the Snowpocalypse! Watch:<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>UPDATE.2<\/b>: Uh, wow, that’s a lot of freaking snow. Holy cow. Here’s a summary of the reactions around here this morning:Dad:<\/b> Uh, wow, that’s a lot of freaking snow. Did I get enough bread yesterday? I don’t think I got enough bread yesterday. Should I have this piece of toast? I forgot to buy a snow shovel! Idiot! Oh damn damn damn damn damn, the dog needs walking, and the snow is almost over his head. Woe!<\/i>Kids:<\/b> YAY! Yay yay yay yay yay yay YAY! Can we go out now? Can we please go out? Can we please please please please please, can we, can we…”<\/i>Dog:<\/b> Well, I don’t know what the dog is thinking, but when I took him out for his morning constitutional, he was freaked out by the snow, which really is almost over his head, and didn’t produce. I know what he’s probably thinking. I know what he’d better not be thinking.Dad (follow-up):<\/b> Hell, now I have to worry about where I step around the apartment this morning.<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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