The cold before the storm

[missizzy]

Mom and I ordered our groceries before even having breakfast this morning, which was early enough they should be delivered this evening well before the snow starts. I then waited until the temperature out at least crept up to 20F to done my thermal underwear from my years in Buffalo and run down to the dry cleaners, and also to get Claritin-D. When yesterday something in my leg flared up and left me unable to walk without pain, I was worried that would last into today and complicate that, but thankfully it didn't. If the groceries get delivered and we keep power, we should do quite well. If we lose power, on the other hand, this is going to get bad.
I'm getting near the end of my current reading about the French Revolution. One thing Voices of the French Revolution really drives home is how much actually happened during that time, and how many years were involved. US history textbooks might give you the dates, but they still make it sound like they just stormed the Bastille and then the Terror started the next day. They didn't really convey how that really happened, and how things managed to devolve so badly. They certainly didn't admit that the driving force behind the Terror involved all the other countries' elites that wanted to preserve their own power trying to force France back to autocracy...