Winter Returns and Facebook Departs
Studio Window I live in a rural area in northern New Mexico at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. We are surrounded by beauty and sometimes challenging canyons. We have no local television or radio or newspaper. For better or worse the internet and specifically Facebook has become our way of communicating about road closures, hazardous conditions on highways, school delays, forest fire locations and evacuation orders, and even cell phone company collapses. And yesterday in the midst of one of our worst spring blizzards Facebook failed us. I quit Twitter because Trump took it over. And Google Plus quit us. Yesterday even cell phone service was iffy at best. Thankfully a friend stuck at the mouth of Coyote Canyon was able to reach me to ask to stay the night if the road crews got her and eight other cars pulled out of the drifts across the highway. It starts to seriously snow and all our snow tourists pack up and leave. And without Facebook there was no way to te...
