Pictures of Snow

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Originally uploaded by andiamotutti.

This was the view from our living room, looking up the hill, on the morning the snow first started falling. The two cars in the distance are stopped on the sides of the road, abandoned, because the hill was too steep for them to go any further. The SUV that's in the foreground was just turning around to go back the way it had come. They closed the road not long after this picture was taken, and it never did get plowed - the snow just finally melted enough on Wednesday night that the road was visible again.

I only took a few pictures, but you can see them all here.

Light Flurries? Not So Much.

My husband is, at this moment, outside shoveling not just our driveway but the driveways of all our neighbors. He's spent the last hour or so shoveling the main drive into our complex, and is now working on each individual mini-drive. I also watched him help a woman walk down the slippery street to the complex next to ours. He's earning all his Good Samaritan points for the year today.

They closed our road this morning after cars were sliding trying to get up it, and running into one another. The sand truck came through, which only means there are ball bearings on top of the sort-of-compacted snow. I didn't have to go anywhere today, but I have two reasons to leave the house tomorrow - I guess we'll see what it's like by then.

I took some pictures of the snow and the resulting chaos, but will have to wait to upload them until I have a bit more time to spend doing "fun" things instead of "work" things at the computer.