party!

[dragonlady7]

Hey--- I just remembered what's significant about this coming weekend!

The 12th was the date of the surprise blizzard in Buffalo last year that plunged 400,000 Buffalo-area residents into cold darkness for 3-7 days.

I think we'd better invite some people over for a party. We'll turn out all the lights and turn off all the appliances, and sit around in the dark by candlelight and pretend we're listening to a fading radio operated off batteries stolen from the cuckoo clock. (We'll need some pre-recorded staticky rendition of, preferably, the War of the Worlds, that gradually decreases in volume... anyone got a copy?)

It'll be a great time. Who's with me?

Comments

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

You have batteries in your cuckoo clock?

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Not anymore we don't.


Actually it was an Orangucoo clock-- this one (http://artvoice.com/issues/v5n14/orangucoo_clock), in fact.

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I would tell you that I'm filled with envy, except I'm not.

My cuckoo clock has the traditional pine cones hanging from chains that you have to pull every day. One day I came home from work to find it lying on the floor. The dogs must have been tearing around and got caught on the chains. Now the cuckoo won't come out anymore. The clock is sitting in a box waiting to go to the cuckoo clock hospital.

[heebiejeebie.livejournal.com]

that sounds cool

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

Tempting, but I'll be away for the weekend.

I was just wondering what day it was last year that the storm hit.