The highlight of my week this week was the fact that I traveled by plane to field a cover story for Independent Processor for the first time in more than a year. The bad news was that I flew to Wisconsin, and the temperature didn’t go above 0 degrees the entire time I was there. Then I drove to Chicago, just in time for a storm that dropped 18 inches of fresh snow on top of an already-snow-covered city. (See above for the state of my poor rental car the morning I flew home.) Remind me to look for story ideas in Key West next winter.
The one thing working in my favor was that I was in an area that knows how to handle snow and extreme cold. The snow plows and salt trucks made sure the main roads and expressways were drivable, and the cities were prepared to handle the weather and keep the heat and electricity going.