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Minggu, 06 Desember 2009

War Stories

In my wanderings around the blogosphere this weekend I noticed we're getting more than a few seasonal posts now that winter is upon us.  Kath posted some pics, Jimmy did too, Sharon posted a horror story, and Daphne (she abiding in temperate Austin) posted an ode to the white stuff.  I just can't wax poetic about frozen precip - I've seen enough of that sh!te to last me the rest of this lifetime and well into the next.  Let's review, shall we? (click the pics to embiggen)

It Could be Worse, Part Deux



Up too late again. Back in a few, but until then, there’s…
Today’s Pic: Keeping with the “It could be worse” theme… Yesterday’s pic was taken at the old homestead in Perinton, NY. Today’s pic was taken in my new, post-marriage-termination quarters, a rather nice, very new apartment (I was the first tenant) in Webster, NY.

Me (on the phone, waiting for the other end to pick up)…dum-da-dum-da…
Him: EDS, this is (my boss)!
Me: Hey, it’s Buck. I won’t be in today, I’m snowed in.
Him: Snowed in? You can’t get out? Really?
Me: Really. There’s a four foot drift right outside my garage door.
Him: Really?
Me: Yeah, really. Check your mail in a minute or four. I’ll send you a picture.

And this was the pic I sent. It was very late in the day when the apartment complex finally got a front-end loader and a dump truck in to remove the snow… March 3, 1999.

3 Astute Observations:



Laurie said...

I remember that storm well. It snowed 2-3" per hour, and cranked up a notch right around morning drive time. Many people got stuck on the expressways, or arrived at work late to find out it was closed and turn around and go home... or they arrived at work but then could not get home and ended up sleeping overnight at work. A 20-30 minute drive took 3 hours that day, if you didn't get stuck. Several people I work with ended up stuck at work overnight. A bit of a hardship because there are no food facilities here, just a couple of vending machines which got cleaned out fast. And no restaurants in walking distance in that kind of weather. Most of the restaurants were not even open because none of the staff could get to work that day. We dug out from that one, 24 inches in total, then a couple days later we got clobbered with 18 more inches. Interesting to note that we had quite a mild winter that year up until March. And we're having a mild winter again this year, so who knows what March will bring. Historically the biggest storms we have had were in March.
Buck Pennington said...

Another vignette from that storm: Two days later (a Friday night), some friends and I did Happy Hour at the Dinosaur BBQ downtown. We had a few beers, ate dinner and then went on our respective ways. The city streets were pretty clear by that time, but not all... I left a traffic light from a dead stop and proceeded to hit one of the on-ramps to 490...only to realize (a) the on-ramp was closed, but not blocked and (b) there was about six feet worth of snow drifted on the ramp. I was going about 35 mph when I plowed (literally) into the mess. It was about an hour and a half until the tow truck arrived to pull me out. I was pretty damned red-faced (and cold), lemmee tell ya... :-)



Laurie said...

LOL! You were lucky there was not a car hidden in that drift you hit. I recall there were still cars buried here and there on the ramps and on the expressway a few days after. Driving to work on the expressway was like a slalem around the snowbound cars.
And then there's this:

Do I Miss It?


In the comments to one of my previous posts, Laurie sez/asks:
“Tonight low 18, winds 15-25. Alberta Clipper coming through. Tomorrow, high 19. Don't you miss it here?”
"Here" being Rochester, NY. It’s said a picture is worth a thousand words; if that’s true, then my 2,000-word essay on snow is just above this paragraph. Those two pictures aren’t of the highest quality, to be sure, but that’s my car stuck in my driveway, waiting for the tow truck after about 30 minutes of me trying to dig it out.  And that’s my deck, too. January 19, 2000 (ed: that was January of 1999, actually). 24 inches. Draw your own conclusions.
As I said: I've seen enough.  The ONLY places I really enjoying seeing snow these days is on my teevee and in the pages of NatGeo.  I know we'll get snow this year, we always do.  The best thing about snow here on The High Plains of New Mexico is it's never really a lot (usually) and it almost always goes away in a day or two.  I can handle that.  We need the occasional reminder about why we choose NOT to live Up Nawth.
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