Residents of Jackson, Wyoming will get some snow this week, announcing the end of Fall with the yellow Aspens, and the beginning of their winter, with its howling winds, serious snow storms, and icy roads, snow tires w/ studs, and roaring wood fires in the stove/fireplace/ pellet machine. The snow clothes will be shaken awake, the skis/snow boards/snow shoes will be examined for function and form, and the November election will come and go. And Covid will remain in the Rocky Mountain closet, again. The FDA and the White House are asking Congress for more money to finance the next rollout of vaccinations for the winter season when the flu will piggyback upon the Covid virus to shake the population again through the dark months ahead.
But, the long winter of Covid appears to have slipped from the consciousness of the citizenry; it is accepted as endemic, and health officials are in a quandary about solutions to a still-deadly health emergency that continues to kill 350+ folks per day. In Lake Tahoe area, skis will appear before Thanksgiving if a little white stuff falls and temps stay below freezing for a few days. Maybe we'll have winter this year.
And the World Series begin Friday, next.
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