Snowed In

[aldersprig]

(Yes, I find it a little amusing that I have a “Blizzard” Icon. It’s from a setting!)

So, we spent the last two days snowed in, how about you?

The last time I can remember that a major storm was supposed to hit NY, with all of the bells and whistles and a name, was Sandy - the hurricane, which totally ignored Ithaca except some rain and went on to devastate NYC and New Jersey.

To be honest, I was expecting more of the same from Stella. Ithaca just doesn’t get snow most years, not like Rochester or Buffalo do (those giant inland seas dump a lot of snow on their cities…)

I figured I’d get up Tuesday morning and there’d still be grass visible.

As a matter of fact, when I woke up at 2 a.m. Tuesday morning, there still was grass visible.

Not so much by 6 a.m.

Definitely not so much by mid-day.

At noon — long after I’d decided to work from home — the campus closed for 24 hours. Which then extended to 4:30 Wednesday.

By 6:30 Wednesday we’d dug out the driveway.

I did work from home for partial days both days. But I have to tell you, the little kid in me is still running around going “snow day! Snow day!”

I think the cats were happy to see me go back to work today…

Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

Hee hee! The kitties are sad to see you go. ♥

I was snowed in for one day, though it was more like iced in.

[kelkyag]

Tuesday was a fine day for staying home, baking (and bringing cookies to the landlord's son, who went out in the wet and wind at least twice with the snowblower), and listening to the wind roar outside. Power stayed on at my place, but went out in places not so far away. Wednesday, power was back on all the places I'd been aware it was out, and streets and sidewalks had been cleared sufficiently to get places given two working feet and decent balance. (Getting around with crutches, a stroller, or a wheelchair would've been trying.) The snow in the park was dense enough and frozen deep enough that if I was careful, I could walk on top of it instead of stomping through it -- never encountered that before.

[sauergeek]

I stayed home, cleaned, and then made a bigger mess by making cupcakes. In between I hid under blankets and read a lot.

[aldersprig]

We did some of that, too, because Pi day. I made two-person banana creme pie. With rum whipped cream and chocolate chip-walnut pie crust.

It was, unsurprisingly, delicious.