Devshirme

John Miller has some spectacular photos on his blog of the snow that has hit the Middle Atlantic region.   Of special note is the collapsed roof of the ice rink where his children play hockey.  As a transplant from New England living in Virginia I was always shocked when we would have a snow storm looming and school would be cancelled for a week, premptively.  I soon realized that people who lived out in the country would not get plowed out for days – it is a very different universe there.  We up here have so far been spared snow from this storm but it looks like Wednesday that may change…