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January 20, 2007
The View from My Front Porch Yesterday
Isn't it pretty? I love snowy days when I can just hang around the house and enjoy the view. Yesterday was a movie-watching day, so I'll have more to report soon enough....
(Jason shot the video, incidentally, not me. Credit where credit's due and all.)
Posted by adrienne at January 20, 2007 08:19 PM
Comments
I miss snow.
Posted by: Jeffrey Lee at January 21, 2007 01:37 PM
Funny story from North Carolina:
It snowed on Tuesday. Despite a few snaps of arctic weather in December, this was the first snowstorm since I moved here from Lockport. And it was bad--over 200 (!) auto accidents reported in the morning; schools closed all over Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill. What a mess.
The funny part of this story, you ask?
It was half an inch of snow. I wish I was kidding, but I am not.
Amateurs.
Posted by: Jen at January 21, 2007 04:32 PM
This is pretty much the first week we've had snow all winter, which is, as you both know, highly odd. The warm weather was starting to freak me out, like I'd gone off into Bizzaro Western New York, so the snow is a welcome relief and I'm enjoying it immensely. Winter's a pain in the ass, but I like it.
Posted by: adrienne at January 21, 2007 07:50 PM
According to the Syracuse paper (the D&C probably ran a similar story) this winter's weather pattern is the same as the 1955, '66, and '78 blizzards that brought 7-10 feet of snow in many places. They all had a warm start to the winter, which kept the great lakes warmer than usual, so when the late February/early March storms came as they always do, the lake effect was more drastic than usual for that time of year.
I remember the '78 snow a little, I remember my Uncle Scott having his ranch house literally burried in snow.
Posted by: chuck at January 22, 2007 09:13 AM
Chuck - you should remember that one! We had 10 days off of school & had a tunnel built from the house to the barn. That was the coolest drift EVER.
Posted by: JJ at January 22, 2007 03:08 PM
Man. Stories like that make me wish that I was a kid again. Being an adult, I'm supposed to dread things like that happening, not get excited.
My sister told me about the snow in NC. We were all amused and dismayed. BTW tell Jason... GOOD JOB!
Posted by: Cathy at January 22, 2007 04:47 PM