Word: snow
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...snowed almost 2 ft. in upstate New York--wet, gluey snow so weighty that it brought down trees across power lines and left our farmhouse in the dark and cold for three days and nights. We huddled under five blankets and a 40-lb. dog and read by the light of oil lamps...
After three days, my computer sprang back to life, chipper, as if nothing had happened. I found myself wishing that a hard snow would fall on Seattle. Bill Gates and his geek brigades, I thought, need to sit in the dark for a while, or to light oil lamps and catch up on their reading...
...thought it, and nature responded with such biblical overreaction (the heaviest weather in the Pacific Northwest in 70 years, days of snow, ice, thaw, rainstorms, flood, power failures) that I began to feel guilty...
...survivors, the devastation of the quake was followed by even more misery, as untold numbers in remote mountain villages went days without seeing any sign of relief. The delay in getting supplies to the disaster zone raised fears of untreated injuries, disease and malnutrition, or worse: the looming snow season could present the specter of masses of people freezing to death...
...somber plaintive country music with lingering lyrics, including “Don’t want to shoot nobody, don’t want to get shot” provides the perfect soundscape for vast overhead shots of the iron mine’s barren snow-covered setting. The cinematography and soundtrack crystallize to form a tangible oppression, convincing the audience why this woman made these historic choices...