Simenon and Skinner : The Travel Agents

Winter storms are magical and mysterious.

They blow into town, thick and blinding, covering everything in their path. Trash cans, dumpsters, orange traffic cones, brown brittle bushes—the ugly reality that existed before the storm—are suddenly transformed into sparkling snow-covered mounds. Real becomes fanciful. A white snow-globe world.

And what about the people who get caught up in these storms, the locals and the stranded travelers?

Do they fall into a stupor, letting their f