Armistice Day Snowstorm (No Recipe)

Here in the Midwest we are being kicked in the teeth by the weather.  I was planning to make a syllabub to ring in the new year, but snow, slush and now a deep freeze have been keeping me from the market where the sweet, sweet rum is located - so no recipe for this week.  Perhaps next weekend I will be able to make the celebratory dessert to commemorate things like seeing the sun, not shoveling, or passable roads.

In the meantime, I will just be glad that it isn't Nov. 11th, 1940. The date of the infamous Armistice Day Snowstorm.

Now that's a lot of snow!

This was a snowstorm that famously sneaked up on the Midwest, like a thief in the night during what began as a warm and sunny reprieve from wintry weather, to dump 5 ft of snow on the ground and created drifts up to 20 ft high with it's 45 mph winds. Yikes!

Keep warm and if you have some rum around, heat it up. I've heard good things.