5 thoughts on “More frigging snow”

  1. Planted pansies on the terrace at the far end of the pool yesterday. Snow…..what snow? “Desolation Row” is only a state of mind.

  2. Ms. Madrak, in this WNW ‘burb of Chicago where I live, we too are running out of places to throw the snow – with the emphasis on THROW.

    We are up to around 70″ of snow for the winter of 2013-2014. We just had 7-8″ more of the stuff yesterday. The piles along the driveway or the devil strip by sidewalk are so high you have to check to see where – if anyplace – is the low point in the wall of previously thrown snow, and aim your latest shovel full accordingly. If you miss your spot, it’s a bummer, because it just rolls back at you.

    I think it laughs at you when it does that. At first, I thought it was the wind, but I’m pretty sure now that it’s a laugh from Mother Nature.

    Today, I took a marking pen out to the devil strip, with the intention of marking the snow level on the maple tree there, just to show how pile was. I was thinking I could remind myself of that come July.

    Of course, I had to dig out a little bit just to approach the tree, but finally I could lean in there and make the mark.

    This now the 4th snowiest winter since such records started to be kept for the Chicago area. We are now only 2-3″ behind the 3rd snowiest winter – we will catch and pass that easily. And we are 11 and 12″ behind the 2nd and 1st place winters. We have a very reasonable chance to pass them by, too.

    The one good thing for our area of the country is the very significant ice cover on the Great Lakes. Lake Michigan’s water level is down 29″ over historic levels, due to the hotter weather of the past 15 years. We may actually recover a bit this year, and that’s good.

  3. Philadelphia has now officially had the third snowiest winter ever (record-wise) and I’m pretty sure we’re going to beat that.

  4. I wish I’d burned my snow and smelled the disgusting plastic burning. Yes, I saw the debunking.

    I wish I had seen for myself and smelled the nastiness.

    I do not doubt. Who could?

  5. Hey Susie:

    This “suburb” (Coatesville) is also having problems with piled snow making it near impossible to see on-coming traffic at some intersections unless you creep out into their lane (as they’re coming at you at significantly higher speeds on snowy and icy roads). With the coming warming weather this week and weekend, there are going to be problems of drainage (or lack thereof, called ‘flooding’) due to snow piled up at least 10′ high over storm drains.

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