Dancing with the Universe

I've been reading Jenny's account of the great blizzard of '08, which she kindly handed me, and in the midst of marveling at a 65-year-old woman hiking three hours in the snow in plastic clogs(!) to rescue people stranded in a pickup truck, I have been noting what she had and didn't have that would be useful in future blizzards. They don't happen often here -- the previous one was in the mid-60s -- but I'll try to make note, in the interest of planning for contingencies.

( As the Boy Scouts say... )