snow day
Last night, I had one of those nights were I felt like a kid and hoped for lots of
snow because I didn’t want to drive home from work in it tonight at 9pm. Fortunately, the snow goddess delivered and then some! The phone rang about 7am for Bryan
letting him know that class was cancelled today. Bryan told me that he
wasn’t going to let me go in to work today and I said, “Well, the library might
call, let’s give them some time.” I turned over and thought, “They have to
close the library.” Fortuately about 10 minutes later the phone rang again
and it was my manager telling me that the library was closed. I was so relieved
because it was hard to get into our parking lot last week with four inches of snow and with over five inches on the ground at 7am, I knew it was going to be impossible to get in and out. It definitely feels like a sick day but in a good way. We’ve been reading, I’ve been knititng and Bryan’s been working on collages. At noon today we had over 7.5 inches of snow on the ground, at 1pm it was up to 8.3 inches and it’s blowing and drifting a lot. Our parking lot was plowed this morning and you wouldn’t know it in some parts with all of the drifting. 
The city crews have stopped plowing the streets because of the blowing, they aren’t making any progress. They’ve already closed the schools tomorrow and the library isn’t going to open until at least noon tomorrow, depending on whether or not the parking lot gets plowed. By the time it’s all over we’re supposed to have over a foot of snow. A foot of snow doesn’t sound like a lot to some of you, I’m sure, but around here since there is nothing to block the wind and it creates blizzard conditions. I went out just to snap two photos and it’s pretty nasty out. The drifts on the cars look pretty bizzare, though.
Update at 11pm - The library is closed again tomorrow the entire day. As of 6pm, the snowfall total was 11.7 inches with drifting around the public tv station around 40 inches deep. The drifts outside our front step are at least 18 inches deep.
Bess said,
February 15, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
I am so so so so so envious. I want 11 inches of snow. I want to be burried with my yarn and my needles and my wheel. Whine whine whine.
Beautiful photos, hon. Thanks for the vicarious winter.