Snow Business

[lagilman]

So, despite the OMG 7-12 inches of snow INCOMING! alerts were were getting yesterday, I woke up to "normal" amount of snow (maybe 5"?), roads cleared & NYC schools open (sorry kids). It's very pretty out there, but NOT snowmageddon. Just winter in NYC.

(I suspect outside the city schools are closed. Thus was ever the case, which is why it sometimes sucks to be a kid in the city)


(EtA: I suspect the storm moved through faster than expected, which is why our skies are clear and CT is still getting flakes. Had it lingered, we might indeed have gotten more. Maybe.)


I'm still staying home today, unless I get the twitch to go for a walk. Lots to do here, since in addition to the other stuff in my to-do list, I also woke up to the prelim cover for DRAGON VIRUS (the story collection) in my in-box (wheee!). So today I get to wear my art director hat for a bit, too, discussing possible alterations/preferences/etc.

Hrm. Art director, copy-writer, writer, editor... lots of hats today. *prepares for hat-hair*


How goes it where you are? Snow? Rain? Floods? Locusts? Bright sunshine and easy living?

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I rather envy you the snow. We have pouring rain, leading to damp cross cats.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Dampness. The last snow we had - a patch the size of my hand which had lingered two days after the rest of the big drive-clearing snow heap - went on the 3rd. Now, it's just soggy.

Which is what the English are used to.

Which is why the cricket team is doing so well in Australia at the moment.

As for snow days, one of the (many) down sides to attending a boarding school is that there's no such thing as a snow day. If the snow was particularly deep or the rain particularly heavy, we were permitted to use the warm dark underground tunnels to get around the campus.

(The tunnels carried the hot water pipes for heating in the winter months. And when you have a mile or two of early Edwardian pipework, there will be drips, so it was warm, dark and moist.)

[lagilman]

My college (upstate NY) had covered walkways connecting most of the (older) buildings - it didn't do anything about the wind or cold, but anything short of a blizzard and we could get from dorms to mess to class and back again without having to be dug out. I am told that schools in the Midwest tend to be connected by either tunnels or enclosed walkways as a matter of course.

Snow Happens.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Happily for Cambridge - here I went to University - not that much.

My room was in an adjacent courtyard from the dining hall (and there were also simple cooking facilities on my staircase), so eating and sleeping wouldn't be a problem. But the Engineering Department buildings were a half mile away through the streets of the city.

It could have been a lot worse - it was over 3 miles for any engineering students at Girton college.

Most winters, I wouldn't particularly expect to see any snow on the streets of Cambridge.

[kriz1818.livejournal.com]

We've got nearly-up-to-my-knees here in central Connecticut, and the radar suggests it's going to add considerably more over the next 4 hours or so.

My son would be ecstatic, except it's so deep we can't get out to the sledding hill. It'll be massive snow fort, instead.

[joycemocha.livejournal.com]

No Snowpocalypse here, and the dreaded icepocalypse is milder than feared. Got the expected two-hour delay call this morning because I work up on Mt. Hood and the ice lingers longer there. The ice on the deck from normal wakey time at 4:30 is now puddling at nearly 7:30 am.

Escaped another Gorge onslaught. One of the dubious joys of PDX in winter is when we have these transitions from bitter cold delivered from the interior thanks to the Great Wind Tunnel of the Northwest (otherwise known as the Columbia River Gorge) to relatively warm rainstorms. The transitions can bring snow, freezing rain, or just plain rain, and it's all about the relative strength of the cold low causing the strong winds down the Gorge versus the warm low bringing in the storms. Often we don't know what it's going to bring us for certain until it gets here.

[ubiquitous-a.livejournal.com]

Reporting in from (according to the news) the only state in the entire country with no snow, Florida. Before you say, "Well, what about Hawaii?"....nope. They've got snow on one of their mountain tops.

So yeah.....snow-free Florida, FTW!

[lagilman]

yeahbut....still Florida.

I'll take the snow, thanks.

:-P

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

We were supposed to get upwards of an inch of snow here, but only got a dusting and the high winds have since blown that away.

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

We have rain in France. But my family in Massachusetts got socked in.

[rovanda.livejournal.com]

We've got a healthy two feet in Bristol, CT, with drifts up past my waist.

Shoveling the driveway and walk are happening in portions today - I think one more push will finish it, after a nice cup of tea.