The Blizzard of Autumn '03

[lagilman]

Peter: "No, you did all the shoveling yesterday (when he had to go into the office), I can handle this round of shoveling, should only be a few more inches."

Me: "uh-huh."

40 minutes later he was only halfway down the driveway and I took pity and went out there to help him. Six inches since we shoveled this morning, at least. And it's still coming down, although not quite as heavily. Reports from Newark
Airport (our closest formal reporting area) were at 12" at 1 this afternoon.

By the time it's all said and done, I'm guestimating 16"-18" total for the storm. May go higher, though.

Mind you, I don't mind shoveling. Neither does he, really. Otherwise we'd be using the old (very old) snowblower my folks gave us, or have broken down and bought a new one. And this is a light powdery snow that makes me long for the days when I could ski. But three maybe four storms like
this a winter is all I can take, and having the first one this early does not bode well...

(or, this could be the last and only snow we get all winter. Who knows?)

In the meanwhile, everything is dark and white and almost unbearably beautiful, with only the illuminated toy soldier on our neighbor's lawn for color. Wish I had a camera that could take a proper night-time photograph to share
it with y'all.

Comments

[kathlaw.livejournal.com]

Are you getting that squeak from walking on fresh-fallen snow? That and snow at night are the two things I miss from living in Seattle.

Saw footage on CNN and thought of you.