White Christmas

[BuyLowSellHigh]

Look at those pictures. How can anyone not love snow?  :)

Well, STC gave us several GOOD reasons,

...
Then I had to escort them the 5 blocks to the theater they have tickets to tonight.  (Kelsey Grammer is in it - so they really didn't want to miss it)   That turned into a 20 minute slog.    I got them inside and headed back to the subway stop carrying their shopping bags - full of snow by this time.

Train pulls up and I hop on.   Smooth sailing...

[wrong]

I didn't think that a blizzard could affect underground trains - but it can.    The 20 minute ride back to the rental house took about an hour.   And I was starving..

I dried the sammies off with a paper towel, and just had a quick dinner with the first of many beers.

My coat/had/scarf are drip-drying downstairs...

My addesrs from my 12 years living in "snow country",

-  the required early morning snow blowing of the driveway at ~ 5 am,
-  having to dig my car out after work so I can go home,
-  the regular plowing closed of my driveway by the daily snow plow, so when I get home from work I have to shovel the driveway open again,
- fenderbergs in the garage. that turn into salt and mud pools,
- cold puddles in the "mud room", just waiting to soak sock-covered feet,
- all outer wear soggy most of the time,
...

there are more, but isn't that enough ?

I'll take the tropics, any day!    ;D

[squirtthecat]

The sun is out today!   Still looks pretty wicked..    I'll venture out later w/ the camera.

[pensrock]

Mother Nature is such a wimp, she would not DARE to send snow our way.

There think that will help?  :)

[squirtthecat]

20" reported in Central Park.  18" out here in Brooklyn...   

Come get it!


I didn't take this picture, but this is what it looked like last night.

[deb415611]

No sun here.  Wind is still pretty wild. Have power and cable but NO Internet :(.

You can see grass sticking up in some places but huge piles in others



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[deb415611]

No sun here.  Wind is still pretty wild. Have power and cable but NO Internet :(.

You can see grass sticking up in some places but huge piles in others



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that's a 3 ft shrub sticking up out of that drift


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[seemore]

squirt I though we got some snow hope you had A good chrismas
seemore

[BuyLowSellHigh]

I so don't miss that stuff.     :)

[squirtthecat]

Late last night..






Woke up to this..




Ventured out around 3 or so..

















More people using the streets than cars.




Here is our rental place looking up from the street.



(I might try out that restaurant tomorrow night - the carryout menu looked good)

[pensrock]

That is so cool squirt. Man I wish that would happen here, its been years since we had a real winter.

[rdevous]

(I might try out that restaurant tomorrow night - the carryout menu looked good)

The curry must be hot....most of the snow has already melted off the building!!!  LOL  Enjoy your food.

Ray

 

[Ka Honu]

Squirt - How's the deli across the street?

[BuyLowSellHigh]

Caught this video on CNN, thought of you STC.  It's from NJ, about 40 miles south of you.

Tip -- be sure and go for full screen so you can see the clock.

[squirtthecat]

Squirt - How's the deli across the street?

Nothing special.  It's more of a convenience store.  (and a very very expensive one at that...  10 bucks cash for a 6-pack of beer)    They do have a sandwich counter.

[FLBentRider]

Wowsers...

I guess I won't complain about the 40F and 25+MPH winds yesterday. It made driving the RV and the Sprinter a little treacherous.

and those gas stations that pull out the "nozzle lock" - don't they know I need to be able to pump $125.00 of gas into the RV without freezing to death?

I have a tennis ball for just such an emergency.