Nine and counting

[debgeisler]

Late yesterday afternoon, I asked Mike to take a picture of the back deck...almost completely free of snow. We'd finally managed to get the new covers on the patio furniture (when the last set of storms had hit, the covers were, of course, en route here from the mail-order company) yesterday...so there they sat in their pristine green-ness. The photo shows brand new, unsullied, un-whited green covers (with a devil ducky in the center).

Today, not so much.

When I came up here a bit ago (after having breakfast and watching the weather reports for a bit), there was just shy of 9" of white crap new snow on the back deck. The driveway was plowed once already, probably early this morning, and has about 4-5" on it.

And now we're in a band of heavier, thicker snow. Ha ha ha.

Why I love modern technology: my bedside phone rang this morning at Oh-Dark-Hundred...it was an automated service telling me that the university is closed on this, the first day of classes. Pretty cool...although it takes some of the joy out of fumbling with the phone in the dark...calling the main line...and hearing, "Due to the snowstorm..." Only those four words must be heard. You know what follows. Click. Zzzzzzz.

And just now, picking up my email, I'd gotten automated work-weather email saying we were closed. There might even be something on my cell phone, but it's too much trouble to do down there and look. This beats having to listen to one of three radio stations in the area and hope that you don't miss them saying we're closed...love the future...

Comments

[lauriemann.livejournal.com]

Jim is flying back from his trip to visit his uncle and brother in Florida today. Luckily, he's coming back via Atlanta. We have about a half an inch of snow, so the airport should be fine.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

We appear to have finished for now (with another inch, maybe, later tonight), at 10+".

[benveniste.livejournal.com]

Being the geek that I am, I took the "before" picture with a Nikon D200 camera... and lit the scene using a c. 1960 Sylvania Blue Dot M2 flashbulb:

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Interesting. The photo shows up as a question mark in Safari, and surprisingly-well illuminated in Firefox.

I don't remember flashbulbs doing anywhere near that good a job. Did you use any reflectors beyond the the cute little fanned-out silver reflector around the bulb?

Only 6" here so far; Wales got off lucky for once.

[benveniste.livejournal.com]

I think the problem is with my free Comcast page. Sometimes it plots and sometime it doesn't. I'll try from another hosting site.

Flashbulbs are surprisingly powerful. Even with that fold-out reflector, the M2 bulb puts out about as much light a flash unit like the Nikon SB-800.

Before the storm:


After the storm (different angle):

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this aspect of modern technology: we've been able to make much better contingency plans while traveling now that my cell phone sometimes rings on travel days and I hear "This is United Airlines with an important travel update..."

[fudgelady.livejournal.com]

Snowdays -- gotta love 'em! There's no better nostalgia for this aging schoolkid than to remember listening to the radio for my town's "No school...all schools...all day."

Of course, that was back where we actually had snow! Now I live where 2 inches of the stuff is considered a snow emergency! Wimps...

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Huh. S. had to go webcrawling at early-something to track down whether they were closed... I guess they don't call adjuncts. Hope nobody went in to an empty school.