Snowy Sunday
I don’t know what the national coverage is, but I don’t think they’re exaggerating this storm.
It’s difficult to photograph snow to convey accurate depths – too much redundant white, plus I’d actually have to venture outside -but here are two from this morning.
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Afternoon
I’m a bit embarrassed to post these snow blowing photos, but I do have an ulterior purpose – for a change. You might think, gee, look at that guy braving the elements, clearing his driveway to provide safe egress for his family should any unforeseen disaster befall. Or, more mundanely, should one of us decide to go to work or school. And that would be okay.
However, if my mother were the shutterbug her son is, she would post similar photos of my father throwing snow back against mother nature. Except he is ninety and he would be using a shovel.
My ulterior motive is to thank my brother-in-law for the snow blower. He called me three times, before each previous snowstorm, urging me to retrieve it from his garage. Yesterday, finally, I did. And this beast with tank treads is the snow blower equivalent of Mike Mulligan.
I pulled it out the bed of my truck, it landed in the snow, buried but for the long handle. It started after two pulls and barreled through twenty inches of snow like a second grader through the frosting on a birthday cake.
Photo sent by Dan of his driveway.
The kitchen slider shot does a pretty good job………. I blew snow last night about 10:00 and again this morning about 7:00. Both times it was just over my baby electric blower’s max — which is about 10″. So we’ve had almost 2′, coming down an average of over an inch an hour (though at 10:00 last night it was barely coming down, so periods have to have been much denser. Yee-hah!
Comment by shoveler — January 23, 2005 @ 9:02 am
Well, now I cant whine about my 4″ of snow we got.
Thank goodness I don’t live there !
Enjoy your snowy day…
Comment by CoffeeBoy — January 23, 2005 @ 9:37 am
I was speaking with a New Yorker last night about the grateful silence such storms bring to the city, how everything is moved to a slow muffled stop. Under the silver palms, illuminated by a bright moon, we both journeyed back to the contentment such storms bring to the heart and to relationships, rescued, if only for a day, from the relentless frenzy of modern life.
Comment by peter — January 23, 2005 @ 1:50 pm
I’d send a picture of our Bowie driveway, except you’d probably fall off your chair laughing at the pitiful amount, and injure your snow-blowing arms.
For us on Sunday, unfortunately, the “relentless frenzy of modern life” was only increased by the storm, with Beth and Katie forging through the New Jersey drifts last night to get Katie aboard a flight to Madrid from snow-bound Newark. But I did free myself for a while to do a little ski gliding through the neighborhood forest, for a little de-frenzying.
Comment by rakkity — January 24, 2005 @ 11:59 am