LIKE A FLIP BOOK, EXCEPT NOT

Well, the snow has stopped and the sun is out. However much snow actually fell, there's really only about 3 or 4 inches on the ground. There may be a bit of snow later on today, but the dream is over. It's must be above freezing outside because I see the occasional drip of water from higher floors, and the snow has been falling from tree branches for the last hour or so. I can't bear to take a picture of that, so here's a crude time-delay representation of 18 hours in district from approximately the same view, all times approx:


1500 EST — It is snowing here, but just barely.


1700 EST — Now in the last hour of daylight, things don't look much different. A bit foggier, but that's it. Two hours of snow and it hasn't begun to stick.


2100 EST — All right, now we're getting somewhere, even if the asphalt below might as well be teflon. The snow isn't all that heavy, really, though it is basically falling sideways.


0300 EST — Still snowing and finally blanketing the streets as well. If this one's blurrier than the others, well, I'd only been awake for about 45 seconds when I snapped this.


0900 EST — The first winter wonderland we've seen here in awhile. Thank you, butterfly in China.

Having grown up in a temperate environment where snow was scarce and now living in another part of the country where heavy snow is likewise rare, albeit for different climatological reasons, I'd like to say I'll take what I can get. But that would be false. I'm never happy, not unless I'm snowed in for real. This happened the first year I moved here, and ever since I've been

It snowed late last fall, but not even this much. The melt has already begun — I've had to lower the shades a bit to keep out the sun, but also because I can't stand looking at the drip, drip, drip from above — yet it won't disappear entirely today. No, it'll freeze overnight, meaning I may well have to slide down the sidewalk very carefully on my trek down to the Metro tomorrow morning.

If it wasn't for football, I'd say should move to Buffalo or Miami — pick a climate and stick with it. Instead, I should just resign myself to perpetual disappointment.

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posted by WWB at 11:24 AM |