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First, I don't think I know anyone in Austin here, do I? I'll be there for a wedding Feb. 26. Anybody been to Austin lately and can suggest fun things to do or places to eat?
So, it snowed Sunday night - supposedly 8.8 inches, but we got more like 4-6 - with maybe a scanty 1/4 inch of ice on top. Unlike most Georgia snowstorms, it may not melt for a loong time - it was above freezing today, but not by much, and it was cloudy, and it's forecast to be at or below freezing for days to come. I've heard two separate reports of a snowplow sighting in our city, but if we own more than the one I'll be shocked, and the main thoroughfare two blocks from our house did not seem to me as if it had seen a plow, and was also not sanded or salted, as of 11am today. With tens of thousands of healthy young students in the city, you'd think we could organize and clear the roads pretty well by hand, but because the snow mostly does melt quickly there's a sense of fatalism about it. My neighbors, lovely people, were kind of boggled that I cleared the ice from my sidewalk with a pointed garden shovel this morning. Clearly it did not occur to them that they might do the same - why bother? As a Facebook friend put it, "I'll just wait for the sun."
School and work for me are cancelled tomorrow for the third day. It's getting pretty boring. So far in the past 3 days we have made waffles twice, brownies, blueberry muffins, lentil soup, spaghetti and meatballs, and potato and leek soup. The kids have finished their thank-you notes. At least the power didn't go out.
So, it snowed Sunday night - supposedly 8.8 inches, but we got more like 4-6 - with maybe a scanty 1/4 inch of ice on top. Unlike most Georgia snowstorms, it may not melt for a loong time - it was above freezing today, but not by much, and it was cloudy, and it's forecast to be at or below freezing for days to come. I've heard two separate reports of a snowplow sighting in our city, but if we own more than the one I'll be shocked, and the main thoroughfare two blocks from our house did not seem to me as if it had seen a plow, and was also not sanded or salted, as of 11am today. With tens of thousands of healthy young students in the city, you'd think we could organize and clear the roads pretty well by hand, but because the snow mostly does melt quickly there's a sense of fatalism about it. My neighbors, lovely people, were kind of boggled that I cleared the ice from my sidewalk with a pointed garden shovel this morning. Clearly it did not occur to them that they might do the same - why bother? As a Facebook friend put it, "I'll just wait for the sun."
School and work for me are cancelled tomorrow for the third day. It's getting pretty boring. So far in the past 3 days we have made waffles twice, brownies, blueberry muffins, lentil soup, spaghetti and meatballs, and potato and leek soup. The kids have finished their thank-you notes. At least the power didn't go out.