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bayleaf at 10:27am on 08/02/2010
bayleaf at 10:27am on 08/02/2010So, the moronically named snowpocalypse is past, and it dropped something like 30+ inches in the area. My fave moment was waking up on Saturday morning, and looking out the window while I was making coffee. There, in the 'backyard' between my set of apartment buildings and the apartments behind us, was a woman trying to encourage her lab-sized dog out into the snow to play and/or pee. He was having none of it. The snow was up past the woman's knees, which made it deeper than the dog.
He stayed curled around the trunk of a tree where the drifting had left a shallow area. It was a small tree, so he was in a small curl, glancing back at the 5+ feet of snow between him and the safety of the veranda & the door back into his apartment. Finally, his person came closer and he decided to venture forth, and he sank in with just his nose sticking out. He leaped toward her in these massive bounds that looked like a whale breaching the surface of the ocean only to crash back into the water. High-larious. He was not a happy camper.
Then, while he was wallowing through the massive snow drifts, another person with another dog came to their back door. Except their dog was *pocketsized* and being carried, and I just thought, 'dude, you won't see that thing before spring thaw if you try to take it out to pee right now.'
Anyway, once the snow finally stopped we collectively realized that of the 20-some-odd classmates who live in this apartment complex, only one had a shovel. So we took turns digging out our cars. Given the way the complex plowed the roads, there was a swath 3+ feet wide and 2+ feet deep from our back bumpers to the edge of the cleared road. That wasn't including the snow all around the cars that had drifted and was over 3 feet deep on the driver's side and the drifting from the sidewalk led to an unbroken field of snow from the door to our building up to the windshield on my car. Needless to say digging out took awhile.
I also now have a keen appreciation for people who leave furniture in their parking spaces when they pull out, to ensure no one else parks there. I spent hours digging out my car. You want to park there, you damn well better dig me a new place to park. *glowers*
Many secondary roads in Bmore are untouched (one of my classmates actually called me in a panic to ask if she could stay w/ us for awhile b/c her car is so snowed in she doesn't think she'll be able to drive for a week or more. She's parked in an unplowed alley off an unplowed secondary street off an unplowed secondary street...so there is effectively a half-mile unplowed field between her and a driveable street.) so the school is closed today.
Instead of class, I'll be studying (physics and orgo top the list), of course. Also on the to-do list: bringing a suit to the tailor and getting my taxes done so I can submit my FAFSA. Fun times!
He stayed curled around the trunk of a tree where the drifting had left a shallow area. It was a small tree, so he was in a small curl, glancing back at the 5+ feet of snow between him and the safety of the veranda & the door back into his apartment. Finally, his person came closer and he decided to venture forth, and he sank in with just his nose sticking out. He leaped toward her in these massive bounds that looked like a whale breaching the surface of the ocean only to crash back into the water. High-larious. He was not a happy camper.
Then, while he was wallowing through the massive snow drifts, another person with another dog came to their back door. Except their dog was *pocketsized* and being carried, and I just thought, 'dude, you won't see that thing before spring thaw if you try to take it out to pee right now.'
Anyway, once the snow finally stopped we collectively realized that of the 20-some-odd classmates who live in this apartment complex, only one had a shovel. So we took turns digging out our cars. Given the way the complex plowed the roads, there was a swath 3+ feet wide and 2+ feet deep from our back bumpers to the edge of the cleared road. That wasn't including the snow all around the cars that had drifted and was over 3 feet deep on the driver's side and the drifting from the sidewalk led to an unbroken field of snow from the door to our building up to the windshield on my car. Needless to say digging out took awhile.
I also now have a keen appreciation for people who leave furniture in their parking spaces when they pull out, to ensure no one else parks there. I spent hours digging out my car. You want to park there, you damn well better dig me a new place to park. *glowers*
Many secondary roads in Bmore are untouched (one of my classmates actually called me in a panic to ask if she could stay w/ us for awhile b/c her car is so snowed in she doesn't think she'll be able to drive for a week or more. She's parked in an unplowed alley off an unplowed secondary street off an unplowed secondary street...so there is effectively a half-mile unplowed field between her and a driveable street.) so the school is closed today.
Instead of class, I'll be studying (physics and orgo top the list), of course. Also on the to-do list: bringing a suit to the tailor and getting my taxes done so I can submit my FAFSA. Fun times!
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Lancecat is having none of this snow business either. He keeps patrolling the cleared paths and looking like he's thinking, "Is there snow EVERYWHERE??!! Why don't someone do something about it??!!"