Showing posts with label snow and more snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow and more snow. Show all posts

Sunday, February 7, 2010

now is the winter of our discontent



28 and a half inches this time--and another storm coming on Wednesday!

Enough already. It started at around 6pm on Friday night and kept going non-stop til about 3pm on Saturday. OY!
I lost power for about an hour and a half, but fortunately my mother's building didn't.

Poor mom hasn't had to deal with snow for over 3 decades--and she had to come back to one of the worst winters we've had in years. Her temporary digs are 5 blocks from me, but it might as well have been 500 miles--neither one of us was going outside.

Today was the great dig out--phase one: find my car.

That took a few minutes. Then I had to start digging it out.

That wasn't as bad as I thought it would be--for once I did something right. I parked up next to the back of my building. The way the wind was blowing the snow sideways during the storm caused the snow to drift in such a way that I only had to dig about 2 feet from the back of my car to get to the plowed area of the lot.....

Parking spaces are at a premium at my building under normal circumstances--snow like this really screws things up--and they do a lousy job of plowing too, which doesn't help. Because of my knee, I can't go traipsing through the snow, so I will have to resort to putting a lawn chair in the spot I've dug out when I go to work tomorrow. Yeah.

A pox on Punxatawny Phil and his frickin' shadow.