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| Snow and the City | | Date Created: Jan 23, 2005, 11:23 AM |
The White Stuff began falling around noontime Saturday morning and didn't really let up until it dumped over a foot of snow over much of the city. Thankfully not as much as the 2 feet they were expecting, but still a major headache for those who need or want to get anywhere.
While I'm comfortably aloft in a neighboring state, I do have the inner need to go home. I'll have to commute in this stuff this week anyway, so what difference does it make if I do so now or later. Well, the main problem is the city grinds to a halt when there is a blanket of snow covering it like this. Unlike smaller towns, or the occasionally snow covered mid-West, major snow like this affects the millions of people who live on the Crowded Island, and makes for long delays in trying to get anywhere.
We ventured out briefly into the snow yesterday to grab lunch somewhere. I've been somewhat stranded here for a couple of days trying to figure out when and if I'll ever get back to the things I left undone back home. There's nothing fun about this for me.
I don't have my boots.
My car was left on a sidestreet in Queens somewhere, near where I take the train in to work from, probably being buried by piles packed by drive-by plows, since I haven't been able to get back to it in a couple of days. Though I have the shovel in the trunk, I don't know how I'm going to shovel to get AT my shovel. At worst,I'll have to leave my car where it is for a few days, which means I'll have to wait for a bus. IF it's even running. I don't know if I'll venture out into the Great White tonight or not yet, but if I wait until tomorrow (which I blissfully already have off!), I'll be spending a major part of the day just trying to get home. Not a pleasant thought.
But at least for now, I'm somewhere safe, away from that mess, which I'm grateful for. It would be worse to have to really be stuck in the middle of that stuff.
I don't like snow much. Can you tell?
Photo: The Snow leads a path to the City,
as I saw it Sunday, from Across the River in N.J.
©2005 by Tony G. |
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