judging by the fence we must have some 12-13 inches on the ground by now, and it sure as hell ain't stopping. i left my goretex boots at home (slovakia), because i thought spring will be here any minute. i can surely last those few weeks without them.
looks like i'm gonna have to shop for boots
HURRAAAAAH
It is GOOOOOOD snow! Light, fluffy, beautiful! You can almost sweep it off the sidewalk. You could if there wasn't over a foot of it. It's hard to tell how much there is, because it's light and drifting into snow dunes and gullies.
Still coming down here in New York City.
This is Fifth Ave and 45th Street.
This is some guy calling his friends from 47th and Broadway
One tv station (CBS) was saying there might be as much as 21 inches in Central Park. It doesn't look like that much in these shots.
I have not ventured out. Instead I am planning an April vacation to Florida.
Joe(I still haven't unpacked from Christmas)Nation
Dwayne o'the Plow arrived and cleared the driveway. The bird feeders which were filled last night with 28 pounds of black oil sunflower seed) are half empty.
The snow has stopped, but the wind has picked up. Tomorrow may also be inconvenient.
We shoveled.... I took some pictures, but I'm sure you'll get the scale. We were shoveling snow over our heads onto tall piles wedged into what little free space (gardens) we could get to. Ah, the joys of living in the boston area!
we recieved about 10 or so. The snow left and the sun took over . Its interesting that, even though the temp was below freezing, the sun really is kickin into a higher gear. The north side of our place is always in the shadow for any Dec or Jan snows but now the sun just clears the upper story roof peak and melts that snow on the parking lot.
By the end of the week theyre calling for temps in the 50's again. Im now in a spring mood. Ive got some seeds planted in plastic scone boxes we get from the bakery. Onions and parsley and aegeratum are now in and on a heating pad.
This was the biggest snowfall in New York City in 150 years. 26.9 inches!!
Some digging to do.
This guy was digging out his car. Ho Hum. But get this, he was doing it with the HANDLE OF A TOILET BRUSH! Yes folks, this intrepid New Yorker was doing what had to be done with something the size of a big tablespoon.
Joe, Im afraid that our opinions out here in the "wilderness" is that New Yorkers pretty much lack skills.
No, we lack shovels.
I talked to this guy. He had a shovel ... somewhere... it's in his storage bin which, like most storage areas in this town is two or five or ten blocks over. So, he did what he had to do, just like you hick hayseed yahoo goat roping denizens of god-forsaken out-country do, with what he had.
Joe(no mo snow!)Nation
Hmmmm.... I seem to recall lots of days of warnings and forcasts telling y'all this storm was a-comin! You're supposed to go get your shovel BEFORE it starts to snow.
www.wbz4.com says Boston got 13.5" but that seems low. Burlington (where I work) got 17". Schools in Boston are closed tomorrow.
Unofficial snow amounts:
http://www.weatherunderground.com/US/MA/Brighton.html#PUB
from ^. Keep the times in mind, there's a lot more snow now:
Norfolk County...
Brookline 13.5 300 PM 2/12 amateur radio
Braintree 8.0 1200 PM 2/12 spotter
{no listing for Cambridge, sorry}
... Suffolk County...
Boston 13.5 200 PM 2/12 Logan Airport
Boston Common 11.5 135 PM 2/12 NWS employee
Roslindale 11.0 1202 PM 2/12 general public
Brighton 10.3 150 PM 2/12 amateur radio
says cambridge got 18" - just as I thought. Damn, I'm getting good at this.
PS This is new, pretty good:
http://www.toddgross.com/
is that weird, or is just me?
If I were assigned to dig out a car with common household implements, I'd use a wastebasket and a cookie sheet (or pizza box).
I'm amazed, y'know, by all these reports of snow. I can only guess that Snow has gone downhill. The day we moved to Chicago was a blizzard day, Nov 8, 1950. We moved into a rental house with a sideyard. That sideyard often had two to three feet of snow in it, and more. It was routine, if not constant.
I remember sledding in the Bronx.
Maybe my memory is selective, or maybe it snows less now.
All these years later, after decades of coastal california, I move to a place that has snow on occasion. Huh. I don't know how to drive in it, since I left snow country before I could drive.
Weird, really.... I've been a snowangel many times and am afraid to drive in snow.
Something is definitely up with snow. When I was growing up in Minnesota, the first snow stuck around Thanksgiving or so, and then snow piled up on top of that. Cleaner, dirtier, cleaner, dirtier, higher, lower, but pretty much continuously SOMETHING, and so often drifts in parking lots and such that became mountainous.
I no longer live there, but my parents do, and they report that things are much different now.
