You must have been inspired by our wintry weather the other day. Very atmospheric beginning!
Actually, it was merely a foreshadowing of what we actually got. I wrote the prologue last week. Then on Thursday morning, we were getting ice and snow, but we still had electricity. I was in the process of posting it to the SFC board when POW. Electricity goes out. We've got four inches of ice, still no power at home, and probably won't get it back till mid next week. We came up to my mom's place since she's still got power; fortunately, the main roads are mostly passable. I had saved the prologue to my online storage site, so I was able to post it from here.
--M