the little lady with the shovel...

so we get snow, then sleet and finally rain... school is closed and that's is always welcome, and as I drive around giving the family rides, I notice that there is very little traffic... I also notice how many stores are closed... our car-driven culture shuts down with freezing weather (because the TV forecasters scared everyone - but that's another blog)... so I got to thinking back to February in Ukraine... how those folks are so used to ice everywhere. I remembered this little old lady whose job it was to remove the snow from the steps leading down to the subway... it is so cold that the snow doesn't melt and so as thousands of people track snow on to the steps, she moves it out to the street... and then I remember another time when the snow was melting and a little lady was keeping a gutter clear of ice so that the water can head down the drain... so this afternoon while driving around, I noticed that the drains were clogged with ice, the rain had no where to go but in a huge pond in the middle of the intersection... so the little ladys with shovels could sure help here in our technology and machine driven culture...