The Darkness Has Taken Hold

The thick chunks of snow that are falling across the city drop softly on the pavement and dissolve, but they are already starting to stick to cars and trash cans, and it’s only a matter of time before the very ground upon which you walk will be coated with a thin layer of slush or ice. After that?

THERE WILL BE A PERIOD THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING WHEN THE SNOW MIXES WITH OR CHANGES TO RAIN. THE PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE BACK TO ALL SNOW TONIGHT. THE SNOW WILL THEN GRADUALLY BECOME LESS STEADY AND LIGHTER INTO FRIDAY…BEFORE TAPERING OFF TO LIGHT SNOW OR SNOW SHOWERS BY FRIDAY EVENING. FOR NOW EXPECT ACCUMULATIONS TO RANGE FROM 7 TO 12 INCHES…

Also: “Some AccuWeather.com meteorologists have even been referring to the storm as a ‘snowicane’ rather than a blizzard,” reports AccuWeather.com, “in order to express the fierce extent of the snow and wind expected from the storm.” Fair enough. I don’t expect we’ll have much of an accumulation here in town, but it’s probably going to be a pain in the ass to get around, because why should anything be easy? This is your life now: bleak, slippery, and inconvenient. There is no hope to be had. Even if the sun ever returns, you will eventually still die anyway, most likely alone, most likely unmourned. It will be winter forever-in your soul.

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