This weekend Ben and I got introduced to a very heinous weather pattern common to the east coast: the Nor'Easter. Look at the dog around 57 seconds - this is the look Kimber gave me for 3 days straight! I'm a mean mother for making her go potty in that. Also check out the 2 minute mark. This is why the whole city is covered in debris.
This storm was nuts. We had heard about Nor'Easters, but weren't really aware of the ramifications. Wednesday I went out to campus to study with my friends at Tropical Smoothie. Tropical Smoothie is about a block from the parking garage. I made it across the street before my umbrella flipped completely inside-out, snapping one of the supports and allowing rain to blow in sideways, drenching my body. The wind was completely insane! I found myself ducking into niches in the wall to avoid the rain for several seconds until I could get to the next one. How ridiculous. We got our studying done and right before the storm got really bad, I had enough good sense to go to the store while I was still wet and grab ingredients for Taco Soup. Spending your day drenched and miserable will do that to a person.
Turns out it was a pretty dang good idea. We had very little food in the house and were stuck inside for two days while that crap blew in with the force of a category 1 hurricane. There was a lot of flooding and some people had some pretty bad damage since the storm coincided with the moon's affinity for high tides. Side note: I had no idea the moon affected tidal patterns. I don't pay attention to weather much. School got canceled (and I had to miss a test.... I'm devastated - ha!), Ben's flights got canceled, and we hunkered down with nice hot bowls of delicious soup. Moral of the story: sometimes your cravings really save your life!
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