Snowpocolypse

Just chuckled at this photo on the front page of Baltimore Sun.
I'm from a place where "It's gonna snow" isn't exactly front page news, and Phil & I always have a good laugh at how panicky and crazed the city gets every time there's a forcast for snow. The essential groceries are sold out at every supermarket, there is so much salt on front stoops that you're likely to wipe out Home Alone style, and people are pretty much quitting their jobs for the winter and boarding up the windows for fear of being hit by a flake. My favorite folly of Baltimore winter snowstorms though has GOT to be the salt trucks. My assumption is that they don't get used that often, and thus, their drivers aren't completely familiar with their workings... but at every major intersection, there is a salty pile of proof that they are at least driving around, because they seem to forget to turn OFF their distribution when idling, and leave foot high mountains of salt at every pause. A wintery mechanical version of the city horses evacuating their systems after long days of pulling the fruit carts in the summer.

Drive home safe & stay there, charm city citizens, and bundle up!