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Winter in Manhattan I am working in Manhattan this week and next and will post a few longer stories as I get caught up with work after several days of mail server problems. In the interim, here is a quick bit of weather photo-blogging.
It has been snowing all day long, is still snowing, and is slated to continue doing so for some time to come. I snapped a few photos during a walkabout in the Upper West Side of Manhattan a short while ago. While we did have a White Christmas in Belfast this year, it was nothing like this.
 Photo: Copyright Dale Amon, all rights reservedOne day accumulations of this sort are more like what I grew up with in Western Pennsylvania. Ah, the glory of snow days!
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Do you notice the different muffled quality of sounds? Really adds to the, albeit, temporary magic of it all!
Meanwhile, about four hours northwest…
I just went outside. It’s about fourteen new inches deep out there.
I noticed altered light this morning: usually it’s lighter in the bathroom, where I have huge skylight sticking up good 2 feet on the roof. It is much darker there now; the snow almost covered the skylight. It must be good 18″ high…
I’m supposed to take the train to New York today from Boston, but I’m going to have to dig my way out to my truck just to get to the station.
Its not too bad, only about a foot perhaps a foot and a half of snow here in the city.
Its rather nice to see all the neighbors digging each other out, and making sure the sidewalks and stoops of all the elderly are taken care of.
Warms the heart, it does.
Buckminster-Fuller once proposed putting one of his geodesic domes over lower Manhattan with the promise that the savings in snow-clearing would pay for the construction by itself. Maybe it’s time to dust off those plans.
Snow is very beautiful and evocative of carefree days of childhood.
However, articles like this remind me about all the various past contributors to this blog saying “the UK is oppressive, it’s too much, I’m leaving for the USA”.
Hasn’t it occurred to them that most of America seems to be much more oppressive than the UK in terms of extreme weather (deep snow, hurricanes, etc, which generally can’t be controlled by humans) – compared to the Nanny State oppression in the UK which can be readily controlled by simply getting rid of Blair and his armies of robotoid apparatchiks.
If UK looked like this, the whole country would have ground to a halt by now.
What made a laugh was the hysterical reporting about the event by the BBC. They were acting as if this storm was an unprecedented meterological event. Its January and its snowing in the N.E….and the big deal is what exactly?