Snow Blind
“Except that the effect in real life was more stressful than in a theater. The snow was heavy and thick, dry enough that I didn’t need the wipers, but so incessant, I was starting to think it might never stop. My eyes strained to see into the black night beyond the dizzying white vortex until they felt ready to fall out of my head. Despite the warnings on the radio earlier, I’d decided to drive home, and compounded the folly by taking the back way through heavily forested hills–ensuring that if... I had a wreck, no one would find me until next spring. Now, one hour and a mere ten miles into the trip, I had doggedly reached the point where continuing would cost me no more than turning back, which, the way my hands and shoulders were aching, was a definite mixed blessing. All the more so because one irony of my position was that despite its peril, it was also curiously sedating. The car’s heater belied the freezing cold outside, the snow had a created a carpet beneath so thick and sound-absorbent as to make the trip virtually silent, and the serried trees, flickering by in the dim half-arc of my headlights, enhanced the sensation of being encased in a protective cocoon.MoreLess
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