SNOW coming... can we get a snow day?

The forecast is calling for a winter storm of real proportions: 5-10 inches, with up to 18 in the mountains over a couple of days-- sustained heavy wet snow. Of course, this gets my inner panicky person going into O NO mode.

I wonder what would happen if we re-learned how to live with the conditions instead of fighting against them? We, as a culture, feel a drive to do what we think we need or want to do, regardless of logic. We are shamed into dealing with adverse conditions. We are "necessary" (but are we?)--

That all said, I would welcome a snow day tomorrow. I have not started baking or wrapping for the holidays. But then I walk from window to window, worrying about my family members who must head out and into the storm.

Here's a poem by Robert Frost that pretty much captures the anxiety heavy snow brings out in me. 

Have a great day, and please be safe!

C

Storm Fear

When the wind works against us in the dark,
And pelts the snow
The lower chamber window on the east,
And whispers with a sort of stifled bark,
The beast,
‘Come out! Come out!’—
It costs no inward struggle not to go,
Ah, no!
I count our strength,
Two and a child,
Those of us not asleep subdued to mark
How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length,—
How drifts are piled,
Dooryard and road ungraded,
Till even the comforting barn grows far away
And my heart owns a doubt
Whether 'tis in us to arise with day
And save ourselves unaided.

This poem is in the public domain.