The film started out pretty well, building
suspense and being pretty scary. Great
premise as unexplained and very spooky events build up in a family struggling
to make it economically. I guess Keri Russell
is a pretty big name but I don’t get it.
She’s made a name as a TV actress but it doesn’t translate well onto the
big screen. After the intriguing start, the
movie doesn’t bring it home in the second half.
The reasons behind the events are explained and then shown too starkly and
it ceases to be scary. Close but clearly
a miss.
The day was further darkened when I learned
that one of my favorite employees at work died suddenly in her sleep
overnight. She was one of the
dispatchers at work and one of the few that you could count on to get a straight
(Un-union centric) answer. A true loss
for everybody at work and a kind of chilling reminder that these are the “storm
years” for people in my age group. She
was only two years older than me and seemed in pretty good health. My thoughts and prayers are with her shocked family.
My sister and brother in law proposed coming
up for a long sought dinner at a local restaurant that we’ve both driven by hundreds
of times but for some reason have never been inside. We’ve planned a couple of dinners there and
something always seems to happen. Enter
yesterday’s storm – and some attendant freezing rain. There was no way I wanted these important people
(to me and dozens of others) to risk their safety.
The storm was supposed to be a major event
but it turned out to be a lot less than advertised. It came in around sundown and the snow
steadily built up to about four inches by the time I went to bed. I woke up this morning and overnight rain had come in and completely soaked down the snow, even though it was then snowing
steadily. I know the snow blower won’t
be able to lift this heavy a slush so I’ll be shoveling and thinking about
those storm years.  |
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