Here are a few short takes from my winter storm log dated March 16th, 2007:

9:30am (NYC) -- Thick sheet of ice – perhaps a quarter on an inch or more coats car. It’s a painful experience trying to get this caked-on layer off my windshield. I’m thinking that I am doing some serious damage to my windshield, the exterior paint etc… It’s taxing on the body, but I’m thinking that it’s at least some exercise.

10:55am (Secaucus, NJ) -- Non-stop weather reporting/anchoring all day. It’s a very busy day for all of us at NBC WeatherPlus and our partner MSNBC. Behind the scenes, there is constant activity as you can imagine with a big winter storm blanketing the northeast region of the country – airports delays and cancellations went through the roof… there was freezing rain falling on area roads and highways…it’s an ice rink out there…many accidents… The tallies keep coming in…we are all looking at the stats and the latest news reports being filed by our roving reporters. They are good. They are in the active nasty weather, being blown around by the strong blustery winds straight out of the north. The snow and sleet in some cases is smacking them in the face. Yet, the stories are being filed, the live “hits” are going to-air…It’s raw. It’s up-to-date, it’s current news happening now.

9:38pm – I leave the studio… I’ve been there since the 11 o’clock hour. Some of my colleagues put in 14+ hour days. I shouldn’t complain. I see my car, covered again with sleet hat has frozen, leaving yet another thick layer of wintry precipitation. It takes me about 25 minutes to carve my car out of this icy white. I liken it to being a sculptor, revealing the latent form… not working with marble or some other stone… this stuff fell from the sky… it then became hard and unyielding.