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[lagilman]

They said the snow would taper off by midnight. Then by around 2am.

It's still snowing. Steadily.

(UPDATE: The snow has stopped, as of 7:30.)


I have no idea how much snow is out there -- when I look outisde I get an impression of blue shadows on white ground, red brick and bare black tree limbs against a thick white sky. Snowscapes, where every familiar signpost is missing. It doesn't look very deep, which unnerves me -- snowing for that long, and not knee-deep or higher means heavy wet snow that's a bear and a half to shovel.

But I have no inclination to get out there and measure. Maybe later.


This is a good morning to sit and drink tea and contemplate Things.




(although I do like the NYTimes's take on why snowstorms don't freak out the locals: "Snow is not sulfuric acid. Or toxic waste. Or anthrax. It isn't even ugly until the poodles come around.")

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I do like the NYTimes's take on why snowstorms don't freak out the locals: "Snow is not sulfuric acid. Or toxic waste. Or anthrax.

Around here they think that snow is like a really rude guest who will eat all the food and then sit in the bathroom for hours. This is why we automatically clean all milk, bread, and toilet paper out of the stores the second the sky gets cloudy.

[barbara-ferrenz.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, a fellow resident of the Baltimore-Washington corridor.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

This is a good morning to sit and drink tea and contemplate Things.

I'll be contemplating Gerard Butler's behind, frankly. It's a Thing of beauty, all right.

[karentoe.livejournal.com]

Snow was always the thing we wanted so we didn't have to go to school. Alas, we could handle snow in my neck of Wisconsin better in other places in Wisconsin so it usually took a good foot of snow before school was cancelled.

Although, as a whole, we do snow well. It is, after all, just snow, not ice. Ice is the killer.

[qnotku.livejournal.com]

We were really hoping for enough snow so that the government would close down, meaning the city would shut down, meaning where I work would shut down so I wouldn't have to go in. Alas and alack, Mother Nature did not cooperate and all we got was a horrendously nasty drive into work. :shakes fist at the sky:

The heck with Mental Days, gimme a snow day!!!

Teri

[lagilman]

My sister is a teacher, as are some friends, and it always amuses me how much they look forward to snow days, too. Who knew, back when we were kids?

*grin*

[karentoe.livejournal.com]

Some school districts around here make teachers go in on snow days. Bizarre rule. The Madison school district rarely calls snow days. If the city buses are running, schools stay open regardless of how much snow there is. I think they've only closed 2 or 3 times in the past ten years.

[barbara-ferrenz.livejournal.com]

The roof on the kitchen addition to my house is prone to dangerous avalanches. We've asked the contractor to come back and put snow dams on the backdoor side so we can get in and out safely.