Bad Things Update:

Bad things happen to good people all the time. Like today for example, I woke up at 7:00 to pick up Tracie from the hospital (that's not the bad part) and I looked out the window, but it was completely white. I couldn't even see the buildings across from ours. Snow was/is stuck to all our windows on both sides of our apartment.

We are having the biggest Snow storm of the entire winter today. Canada stinks for this one reason alone. Unfortunately places where the weather doesn't stink, stink worse for political and economic reasons. Some places actually stink in addition to having crappy politics and economics. In fact the only way Mexico could stink any more, is if they widened the roads (so more stink could fit).

On our way back from the hospital, we saw a power line get knocked down. There were a bunch of hugh sparks, and all the lights went out. It was pretty cool. I called the Enmax trouble desk. They have an automated system to answer calls and connect you with a real person. Anyway, the system says, "If you are in physical danger right now, hang up and dial 911," about five times before you get to an actual person. I told them about the downed line, and the guy said he thought that it might be on the list, but that he would make sure. That was pretty fast, but I guess it wouldn't be that out of the question that they would have some sort of system that automatically pinpoints downed cables, or that someone who actually lives right beside the downed line to have called in by the time I drove 30 blocks to get home.