More Snow
With 20 inches on the ground from yesterday and this morning, the snow here is beginning to grate. The Weather Channel acknowledges the respite that we have at the moment but forecasts snow again starting at 1am tonight and extending through the day on Saturday.
Some snow is very attractive. This much snow can be painful. With no experience like this here in at least ten years, the purchase of one of those snow blowers seemed like a waste, especially since people who have them and use them infrequently spend much of their time when it is needed just trying to start the things. Not inclined to be machine savvy here, they were not attractive. The once age old practice of young teenagers going from door to door for shoveling jobs is non-existent here, social conventions of the town really not allowing such behavior. I did see some commuting shovelers getting back on a train to Queens in the late afternoon so a few kids from elsewhere know where some ready money is, but they didn't make it up my area's hill. The other alternative would be to have an annual contract with someone who has a Jeep with a plow but why do that based on recent history. It was a strenuous day.
With the sun coming out in the afternoon and the temperature reaching 33 degrees, the lower center of our four block downtown is now almost flooded. There is ankle deep water seven feet from the curbs on the main street leaving on only a few feet on each side of the median as not a creek. This melting will abate tonight but with temperatures reaching the low forties on Sunday afternoon one can only expect that when this all stops there will be many flooded basements and many people looking for the fly fishing boots to do their banking, mailing, or shopping in town. We are on an island and, long as it is, there remains the tendency for damp soil that already has enough moisture. That makes for beautiful springtimes, but when it gets too wet there are problems.
With March on the way we can hope that this is the last big weather event and also hope that this doesn't portend those Nor'easters that knock down trees and eliminate power in the Spring.
Next post, Greece and the unregulated CDS market.
Some snow is very attractive. This much snow can be painful. With no experience like this here in at least ten years, the purchase of one of those snow blowers seemed like a waste, especially since people who have them and use them infrequently spend much of their time when it is needed just trying to start the things. Not inclined to be machine savvy here, they were not attractive. The once age old practice of young teenagers going from door to door for shoveling jobs is non-existent here, social conventions of the town really not allowing such behavior. I did see some commuting shovelers getting back on a train to Queens in the late afternoon so a few kids from elsewhere know where some ready money is, but they didn't make it up my area's hill. The other alternative would be to have an annual contract with someone who has a Jeep with a plow but why do that based on recent history. It was a strenuous day.
With the sun coming out in the afternoon and the temperature reaching 33 degrees, the lower center of our four block downtown is now almost flooded. There is ankle deep water seven feet from the curbs on the main street leaving on only a few feet on each side of the median as not a creek. This melting will abate tonight but with temperatures reaching the low forties on Sunday afternoon one can only expect that when this all stops there will be many flooded basements and many people looking for the fly fishing boots to do their banking, mailing, or shopping in town. We are on an island and, long as it is, there remains the tendency for damp soil that already has enough moisture. That makes for beautiful springtimes, but when it gets too wet there are problems.
With March on the way we can hope that this is the last big weather event and also hope that this doesn't portend those Nor'easters that knock down trees and eliminate power in the Spring.
Next post, Greece and the unregulated CDS market.
posted by John Borden at 4:46 PM
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