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Jan. 18th, 2011
Snow, snow
Jan. 18th, 2011 10:50 pmThe forecasters predicted four inches of snow in our area today. There were four inches of powder on the ground this morning at 7:30. I shoveled it all out, but then the weather got strange. Huge fat flakes came pouring down, the fattest I'd ever seen. As for the snow itself...I've been a New Englander all my life. I've seen a lot of snow. I've shoveled a lot of snow. But I've never seen snow like this.
It was exactly like heavy sand. The grains hissed as I shoveled, and flowed down the piles I was creating like water. The sound was beautiful, but it was hard work - and then it all turned to hail or frozen rain (I can never tell the difference). I'd say we got about eight or nine inches, all in all, before it turned to rain and turned our street into a single sheet of frictionless wet ice.
It was exactly like heavy sand. The grains hissed as I shoveled, and flowed down the piles I was creating like water. The sound was beautiful, but it was hard work - and then it all turned to hail or frozen rain (I can never tell the difference). I'd say we got about eight or nine inches, all in all, before it turned to rain and turned our street into a single sheet of frictionless wet ice.
Snow, snow
Jan. 18th, 2011 10:50 pmThe forecasters predicted four inches of snow in our area today. There were four inches of powder on the ground this morning at 7:30. I shoveled it all out, but then the weather got strange. Huge fat flakes came pouring down, the fattest I'd ever seen. As for the snow itself...I've been a New Englander all my life. I've seen a lot of snow. I've shoveled a lot of snow. But I've never seen snow like this.
It was exactly like heavy sand. The grains hissed as I shoveled, and flowed down the piles I was creating like water. The sound was beautiful, but it was hard work - and then it all turned to hail or frozen rain (I can never tell the difference). I'd say we got about eight or nine inches, all in all, before it turned to rain and turned our street into a single sheet of frictionless wet ice.
It was exactly like heavy sand. The grains hissed as I shoveled, and flowed down the piles I was creating like water. The sound was beautiful, but it was hard work - and then it all turned to hail or frozen rain (I can never tell the difference). I'd say we got about eight or nine inches, all in all, before it turned to rain and turned our street into a single sheet of frictionless wet ice.