Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Sun Feb 03, 2019 9:31 am
I'm discouraged.
DgdJ0 will turn 4 weeks and then 1 month old this upcoming week.
So there have been 4 weeks where there should have been Nana Adventures (TM) with dgsM2. Aside from the initial sleepover and taking him with his sister to the midwife appointment (which wasn't really an adventure) there's been nothing. The weather has alternated between extreme cold and extreme snow. We have a saying "it is too cold to snow" but some of our worst snow came with well below 0*F temps which is almost unheard of. We had a record snowfall for January for records since the airport opened in the 30's. It isn't my imagination, January was a horrible month.
I have dgs overnight on Monday so I decided we'd pick him up right after nap, go to the museum, out for supper, bath and bed.
There now is a freezing rain advisory starting tonight and throughout the day tomorrow. Sigh.... We still have to go out to get him (or have dd drive here in her new car) but to leave the car out longer than necessary, with more walking than necessary, seems risky. The bad conditions outside killed a friend of mine last month. I no longer think I'm overreacting when I refuse to go anywhere. I'm legitimately afraid.
My only hope is the forecast will be wrong. The snowstorm yesterday was not forecasted. A few days out it was to be sunny and cold, perfect for the drive up here, then it changed to cloudy with flurries, still fine, and finally they predicted up to 2" of snow (we had all day so we could plan our timing around the storm.) We got over 5" by the time it was over and it snowed solidly until late afternoon. Because of the incompetence in forecasting, snow removal equipment was not ready to keep up with the storm so the driving was really dangerous at times. That's what this past month has been like. Bad weather compounding by atrocious forecasting making it impossible to plan.
The only problem with my 'hope the forecast is wrong' plan is that what we actually get will likely be even worse than they said, given their track record.