Trapped in a Snow Globe
My Iowa homies are gonna love this. It is snowing in Alabama, an epic tempest, the nastiest blizzard here ever. Yep EVER. Nine inches of heavy powder has turned our cozy dream maker into a frozen iceberg stuck to a concrete slab as icicles freeze, temperature drops fifty degrees below what should have been a tropical paradise. Interstate 10 closed for 200 miles, three inches of black ice created a jammed parking lot from Alabama across the entire Panhandle. The perfect destination for a couple of savvy Midwesterners escaping blustery Iowa for sunshine and clear blue skies, steering the RV directly into the eye of The Perfect Storm in the Gulf of Mexico. “The Shining” seems a fairy tale in comparison, claustrophobia fills our snug bungalow as we are buried inside a howling snow globe, stranded as a complete whiteout swirls then drifts blocking our only escape. Schools, banks, churches, hair barns, four long days without a Walmart greeter, the entire ci...