God has finally chosen to punish Denver residents BY SENDING THEM A SNOW STORM FROM HELL. And we’re being punished, too, PDX’ers. Because many of us wanted to fly out of here for Xmas on airplanes. But here’s a shot of Denver’s airport entrance to Hades right now:They’ve canceled thousands of flights today, and my wife’s parents were just told the next flight they could get into Denver is on December 28th. So we’re not going anywhere. Fortunately, help is at hand! The Mercury’s BusyWeek section is full of fun stuff to distract the stranded PDX’er from feelings of helplessness, despair, isolation, and general misery. Like I say, this Christmas is going to be just dandy. I’m going to dress up like Bing Crosby and croon about Portland being Cold Outside.And as everybody knows, any Bing Crosby impression is made all the more convincing, and fun to perform, by first drinking a huge bottle of Gin:I wasn’t going to post that last picture, but doesn’t just looking at the bottle make you feel better? Cheers.