Upon waking this morning, we were greeted with a window half covered in snow (see previous post ;). It seems to have stopped snowing from the sky, but the wind is still blowing it. Luckily for me, I had no worry about getting to work, being on winter break right now (sad missed opportunity of a snow day though). Seth, on the other hand, did his usual morning get-ready, and off he went. About 5 minutes later, he's back upstairs telling me to come see how much snow we have.
The front of our house hasn't been shoveled, except what Seth started shoveling to get himself out. In spots there's a good 15 inches, up to my knees. He started shoveling and made it out to the sidewalk. The problem was that no one has really started shoveling their walks (except the one lone brownstone above). So Seth decided to shovel out to the road and just walk down the road toward the subway.
He made it. Off I sent him down the road (in his tennis shoes -- what kind of Midwesterner goes anywhere without a good pair for boots? Seth and I both have feet that are quite ill-prepared for this kind of weather! You can also see that his hands are glove-less and his head is hat-less). I'd just made it back upstairs and sat down at my computer with my warm mug of coffee when I get a call from him. He's down the block but headed back up because he forgot his wallet! When I met him in the road, he decided he needed to come up and get his hat and check his email to see if his boss sent something about working from home for the day.
All said and done, he got ahold of his boss and is saving the hassle of blowing snow, trekking through drifts in tennis shoes, and subways that aren't running and just working from home today!
Now I'm wondering what kind of adventure
Aisha (a good friend from college) is in for as she boards a bus today and heads for the City! I'm hoping the snow doesn't keep her from getting here... It will definitely affect our plans - but the city is good at getting snow cleared quickly, so hopefully it won't change too much!
Most roads were not cleared... The main avenue was and the 2 roads around the hospital were drivable (not completely cleared though). An ambulance is stuck on this road...
People were still using the roads to walk on, sled on, play on. I heard one dad ask his kid if she wanted to walk up the street or the sidewalk... Such a cool opportunity for kids to walk in the space they never get to! Of course she chose street!
Some sidewalks were completely cleared (I loved those)... Some were not so much... My toes don't love those.
There was still a but stuck on 7th Avenue. So crazy to think someone was driving that and then had to abandon it in the middle of the blizzard. Hope they didn't have far to go to get to warmth cause getting home in that blizzard couldn't have been an easy task.
