The Snow Comes .. and Stays

The kind of snow that thrilled us as schoolchildren in New York City in days of yore doesn't bring the same reaction in Jefferson Valley as adults -- trees down locking cars in a driveway, ice making the other driveway impassible, power off (only four hours for me; my old Inwood buddy Jim Casey is now in his fifth day without power or heat; a local power company says "most back by Wednesday night" -- that will make it a week for Central Hudson customers); Barnes and Noble closed for a day (even though the parking lot was clear)-- in short, a lot of nit problems, irritants that will turn into financial ones when the "tree surgeons" tell us how much it will cost to dismember and remove the fallen trees.


Fun for children and awful for adults -- but it could have been worse!