Sunday, December 7, 2008

Stormy weather and nuns of a sort

Well, here's the latest forecast for our area. Please note that the trouble is starting in Texas...

Issued by The National Weather Service
Milwaukee/Sullivan, WI
10:05 am CST, Sun., Dec. 7, 2008

A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY EVENING THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT.

SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 TO 12 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT AS STRENGTHENING LOW PRESSURE PASSES SOUTH OF THE STATE.

A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW... SLEET... OR ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL.

More Information

... SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL POSSIBLE FOR SOUTHERN WISCONSIN...

.LOW PRESSURE WILL ORGANIZE IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE MONDAY AND MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THIS TRACK WILL FAVOR BRINGING A SWATH OF POTENTIALLY HEAVY SNOW INTO SOUTHERN WISCONSIN MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.

We dropped in on the railroad this morning to drop off some train-shaped gingerbread cookies Tom had baked and some peanut butter-chocolate fudge I had made. On the way back we stopped at Wally World to stock up on necessities in case we get snowed in for part of the week.

This afternoon we went with a group of friends to dinner and a performance of Nuncrackers, an entertaining production about a small group of nuns in Hoboken who are putting on a Christmas show on local access cable. It was quite well done and included one Carmelite joke to add to my amusement. The best number was a vocation (recruitment) song-and-dance that turns into a spoof of the Village People's song, In the Navy, re-titled In the Convent. Click on the arrow below to enjoy a fuzzy version.



For those who don't get the cultural reference, the Village People was a disco-era group with members who dressed like a cowboy, an Indian, a construction worker, a cop and a biker, represented in the play by nuns (and one priest) wearing the appropriate headgear.

When we came out of Monk's (the bar/restaurant where this all took place -- named for a monkey, not a priest, though), the snow had started.

Oh, joy!

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