I’m alive. However, my car was buried under a 6 ft snow drift this morning. My parking garage was blocked by a mountain of snow so I had to park somewhere else this morning, although I did consider ramming it for a moment. Took me over an hour to drive home last night when it normally takes 10 minutes.
The downtown streets were not plowed this morning and I had to forge my own path through the eerie landscape. I look out my window on the 7th floor and I cannot see the difference betwwen the sidewalks and the streets.
Lake-effect with a vengence. Makes up for the unseasonably warm Christmas I suppose.
I feel as if I’m re-enacting the movie “The Day After Tomorrow.”…
Boston is getting a bit of a storm right now… only an inch, maybe an inch and a half… but it’s sleet, with wind strong enough to make it sting…
After the warm start of winter, I’m quite enjoying it.
This sucks in a big way. We just got a snow plow to come in and plow our property a couple of hours ago. Since then, I have had to deal with the rest and it is just this terrible layer of ice, sleet, and some snow. It is about 16F here and I ended up in a t-shirt shoveling for 1 1/2 hours because it was so heavy and crappy. Ice pellets were stinging me in the face most of the time. My wife stayed home today and her car has a thick layer of shit that I can’t get to the bottom of in parts. I cannot safely penetrate the ice on the windows at all with anything I have.
I was driving home up I-495 this evening when I hit a patch of road that seemed to be unusually slippery. I kept seeing this weird flashing way up ahead which could have been police or snowplow hazard lights. As I approached a long straight stretch, I finally realized what was happening. The flashing was cars doing multiple 360’s. The first one I carefully passed was about 6 cars that hit and uncontrollable part of the road. Half a mile ahead there was another one and it continued on for about 4 miles and about 8 accidents taking out more than 20 cars. Just as I passed the last one, AM radio 1030 put out an alert to avoid that stretch of road at all costs.
Humans are a tropical species. Why didn’t we stay there? Hell, why didn’t I stay there? I grew up in Louisiana. That is the paradox.
If you were in the Eerie landscape, I think you were a bit too far north for Downtown. I hope the ice was thick enough that you didn’t break through?
And the original Nanook of the North Shore isn’t allowed to change his name… It’s the record-holder for longest name on the board. Or at least, the oldest of the record-holders.
