This is the current weather situation as of 9:45 a.m. mountain standard time (the time zone, TV listings forgot).

See that white dollop that is sitting right in the elbow of California along the California-Nevada border?

Directly under that winter storm lies my parents' house.

See that green band of evilness that intends to push that white dollop across Nevada and Utah?

That is the route that my parents are supposed to be driving as I type this.

But the white dollop has pinned them down. So there they are, hunkered down under a white dollop, delaying their visit to their only daughter (and favorite child — as decreed by me).

Stoopit weather!

What is with wintertime anyway? I mean, for Pete's sake, they are coming for Spring Break. You know "Spring," the season of temperate weather and sunshine.

Oh well, nothing can be done except make an offering to the weather gods and pray they'll blow the storm up north where blinding blizzards are more welcomed.