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[threeplusfire]

If I thought anything was open, I would walk. It is kind of fun, novel for someone who never really sees this kind of weather to see fluffy bits of white dropping down. (It sort of stings to get snow in your eye though.) Even the threat of falling and injuring myself like last year could not deter me from wandering a little bit. I'm going to go check the mail in an hour or so, in vain hopes.

While there have been a remarkable number of car accidents, there have only been a handful of serious ones. (Mostly involving the highways and eighteen weheelers.) The local news is full of hysterical photos of five inch tall snowmen, cactus covered in ice and the kids at St. Ed's sliding down the hill by the soccer fields in laundry baskets and plastic tubs. The last time we had anything like snow was about four years ago. Melynda and I talked some neighborhood children into pelting Gene's bedroom window with snowballs. It was a riot.

At the moment there is no mail. The tips of my fingers are numb. I cracked a six inch icicle off my car, and wrote Russian graffiti in the snow on my hood. Someone by the bridge made awesome snowmen. I took pictures.

Comments

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Hahah, how weird is it that its frozen here and not up there? We can't deal with this though. There are no snow trucks to prepare the roads or anything.

[haste.livejournal.com]

I can imagine that must be pretty hellish, especially for emergency vehicles, or if you need to go out for anything like groceries.

My family moved to North Carolina for a year once, and that winter it snowed a few inches, and the city shut down for a week. My parents were in disbelief, but I was twelve and thrilled.