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January 31, 2008

SNOW DAY

No school today. All classes and non-academic activities have been cancelled. The university is closed for business due to inclement weather. They're even asking all non-essential employees who are already on campus to go home.

I wonder why they think getting to and around campus might be a problem...

(Taken moments ago out our front door.)

To provide a sense of scale, the magnolia there on the right? (You can see a few of its branches, leaves still on.) Is not quite six feet tall.

Obviously, much of the snow in question was there before. But allow me to use the following three images to demonstrate the amount of snow we're talking about here, both in terms of what's arrived in the last 12 hours and the total amount.

This is Kokopelli. In the spring, he dances among the tulips next to our front steps. He does not move, but stays in that same spot year round. (That bed, by the way, has filled in nicely. I need to tie up the canes from the climbing rose, but it's next to impossible to get in there any more.)

This is Kokopelli yesterday morning, taken from our front window:

Kokopelli this morning, post walk-shoveling. He would be just to the left of the new bits that came off the walk, just inside the curve of the chunks on top of the pile. Only now, I'm guessing he's about 2 inches below the surface. (You get a better look at the magnolia in this photo as well.)

Allow me to point out once again that there has been snow on the ground since Dave and I got home from London 32 days ago. That's unheard of here. We never have snow on the ground for over a month. And certainly not in amounts like we've experienced. I haven't seen the ground in the back yard since we left for England on December 20. On Sunday, it snowed all day. All day. It didn't stop except for about 20 minutes when it sleeted instead. But there was constant precipitation from before 8am until long after dark.

Dave's got a shot up of the house so you can get another idea of what we're sitting in. The piles on either side of the walk are higher than his knees. (I was not about to go outside to take pictures. As soon as I read the school closure notice I'd been waiting for, I changed into fleece pants. I am toasty and comfortable.)

Before I really get myself set to enjoy this gift of a day, I want to post one more picture from this morning. This was taken with the camera resting on the threshold of our front doorway. I think it gives a pretty good sense of just how tall the snow is.

Oh, and by the way. I've been typing and fussing around for over an hour now. I took those pictures almost two hours ago. It's still snowing. Only harder. Dave just went out to shovel the sidewalks. Again.

Posted by sally at January 31, 2008 08:23 AM

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