Bracing for more snow
Photo by Brad Lhotsky
What do you call back-to-back blizzards? "Snoverkill," say the wags on Twitter. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. And yes, I am aware that it's premature to call the storm being forecast for today and tomorrow a blizzard, but at this point any more snow is too much. Straw, meet camel's back.
How are you preparing? Has anyone taken desperate measures to get snow out of their neighborhood so there's space for Round Two? Have you moved your car somewhere else entirely in hopes of not getting stuck?
Did you ever see a plow?
I'd also like to hear how your life has been affected by all this snow. Did you manage to make it out of your neighborhood? Have you had to delay important things? (Anyone have to put off a real estate settlement?)
Commenting on this post about the digging-out effort, Pete from Highlandtown said a big storm brings out the best and worst in people. He saw the former on his block, where residents worked together to clear the street -- by hand.
Thus, "EVERYBODY on the block can get out. On other blocks people only thought of themselves. They only dug out their own cars and threw the snow into the middle of the street. Now NO ONE on their street can get out. Co-operation works a lot better than selfishly trying to look out only for yourself."
Can the cooperative spirit survive another big storm?
Can the combined might of 5.6 million people wishing the same thing affect weather patterns?
Categories: Neighborhood and neighbors, Weather
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Comments
Reporting from Knettishall, I can say that the neighborhood came together. Cars were dug out, elderly checked on and shoulders collectively shrugged at the next storm.
We are however, out of places to put the snow and I suspect running on fumes.
Posted by: bryanintowson | February 9, 2010 9:46 AM
Not a flake of snow in my little world.
It did get a little chilly and we did have some rain over the weekend but sunny in the high 60's and some low 70's works out great.
neener. neener.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrh5wwrYoSQ
Posted by: MrRational | February 9, 2010 9:48 AM
As we start to think about shopping for a house, distance from a snow emergency route has become a factor we're going to consider, along with how easy it is to get from the parking space / pad / garage TO the main roads.
And maybe minimizing the amount of sidewalk that requires shoveling......
Posted by: MarkT | February 9, 2010 12:15 PM
These are the times when I don't miss Baltimore.......it's raining here in Florida but is still in the 60's. The only thing I really miss is the variety of restaurants and my friends. But I can still visit when the weather is nice.
Posted by: ASH | February 9, 2010 12:36 PM