Drip drip drip...the snow is melting and huge sheets of snow have been crashing down off the roof all week. The cats run for cover each time it happens, and it makes me jump as well.
I can't believe that my car is still stuck in the driveway. We left it facing out near the mailbox, but the plow has stacked up so much snow, which is now ice, that I can't drive over it. I may try to work on that today.
I've been thinking about the man who has been missing from Fenwick Island since Tuesday a week ago. My gut feeling is that he will not be recovered until every thing thaws or one of the summer residents comes to set up their house in the spring. It is either that or a complex hoax that has gotten out of hand.
There is a website to pray for his return and it discourages any negative thoughts, but realistically at this point I would be amazed if he turned up alive.
The story is that he was at a party with friends,and left around 11 PM. His car, cell phone and some personal belongings were found at 11 AM the next morning behind the house where he had parked. This was after our first blizzard, but before the second round which started that afternoon. You have to remember that Fenwick Island is pretty much a ghost town in the winter because many of the homes are not insulated or heated. I doubt that crime is a factor.
We've accumulated so much snow, that there are mounds of it piled up along the sides of the roads that you can't even see over. I think he may have been scooped up and buried there, or worse yet, taken to a dump where the trucks were trying to dispose of the mass of snow.
This is such a small community that everyone seems to be involved. Hundreds of volunteers showed up on Saturday for a massive search of the area. Dogs were brought in but I doubt they could detect the scent due to the snow, which blocks their senses.
Ironically, I actually know his father, who is a HS guidance counselor, and worked in the summer as a delivery driver for Grotto. Prudence, of course knows him from school. He was the BF of her BF's brother.
At any rate, this has been disturbing me and waking me up at night. I sincerely hope that his body is recovered soon and his family and friends have some closure.