Time to Make French Toast

It happens every year. That first big winter storm 'freak out' that causes everyone to panic and do the standard run to the store to get stuff to make French Toast. Because that's the best way to survive a storm, after all...

This one comes right on schedule... early December after an even more freakishly warm spell. They've been talking about 'Winter Storm Cleon' since the weekend. Forecasters watch as it pounds Colorado and other states known for high amounts of snowfall, and always predict we'll get much of the same.

But we usually don't.

In fact, I've watched as the predictions of snowfall amount go down since the early rumors of this great storm. At one point, I heard we might get up to 12". Now we're don't to half of that. And we'll likely get half of that prediction. They always over hype snowfall amounts, especially for the first 'big one' of the season.

In the meantime, everyone's panicking. I don't even want to go near any store that sells 'the big three' items that you must have for a snowstorm. Why must we get milk, bread, and eggs? What do those items really do for us? And can we really not survive without them? And do we really think we won't be able to get to the store for another week??

Oh, well. Maybe I'm wrong. It just better not impact my plans for getting on a plane Saturday morning, or I will be very upset!