You Know It’s Cold in Binghamton When…

All my husband could do was roll his eyes and shrug his shoulders when he got home last night and found my "better prepare for weathermageddon power outages" list sitting on the dining room table.

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I like to think of myself as the motto for the United States Post Office - "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" will stop me from being prepared for whatever the weather throws my way.

My family lives on a dirt road in the woods, and before you think I'm too extreme in my preparedness, consider that where we live, someone can cough on a sunny day and the power will go out. So when there are high winds, we hunker down and prepare to be without power for extended periods.

Also, because we live half an hour from town, it's not a quick trip to the store to grab something we forgot, and the trip is usually twice or three times as long when the roads are bad. I'm not even going to bring up gas prices, but you know.

Do we have blankets over all our windows and doors right now? You bet! Have we checked the fuel in the generator? Absolutely. Flashlights and batteries? Yes. And let's not forget that the tub is filled with toilet water because...well, you know.

This is the kind of cold where parents reconsider sending their kids to the bus stop, and whether they should also stay home from work and keep buried under blankets all day. Cold weather is not unexpected in Binghamton, but this is just too cold.

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