It rained all day the night I left

 So I stayed in and watched cherry blossoms scatter in the rain, in sort of torrents, not the drifting single snow flurries of the last week. The ground is white now. Somehow Loblaws was without power, even though their generators got them handily through the 48+ hours of the 2003 blackout. Thus I didn't even venture out to Fiesta, because I knew it would be overwhelmed.