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OK, Winter, you win. I surrender.
Published: 06:51 p.m., Friday, February 4, 2011
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I admit I liked the first couple of storms, watching the flakes drift down, draping the trees in white. Not so much the next few, when the branches started to snap.
Winter, you won me back on my early morning jogs, the moon lighting up the snow (though I did have to dodge the snow plows, and came close to getting squashed more times than I'd like to count).
Pity the poor plow drivers. I overheard one yelling he'd been up 27 hours. (Hmm, how safe are we with them behind the wheel?) Even they are getting sick of you (and they're the only ones making money).
You've made the streets so dangerous. With so much snow and nowhere to go, intersections are inch out, if you dare. Who knew driving could be fraught with such fear? And the streets themselves. How many places are just one car length wide? Before these storms, on dry streets, no one ever gave the right-of-way. Now we all do. Maybe we're just afraid. Hey, at least we've all learned a new word. Tertiary.
There's something about all this snow that makes me feel unsettled. Maybe it's the routine of my life interrupted. For one thing, kids home more days than they're in school. I love being with my son but I love it even more when he's in school.
I went to school in Syracuse and this is a Syracuse Winter. A tower downtown used to light its tip in white when it was going to snow. It was white every night. This is starting to feel like that. I'd like to use my rake for leaves, not for knocking down icicles.
It could be worse, like North Dakota, which currently has 25 feet of snow and where they allegedly top telephone poles with flags so that the plows can find the road.
But actually, I do see a good side to all of this. Drivers are more patient, it seems, more willing to let others go first when there's a huge snow drift blocking one side of the road. And there's no honking when you're stopped to turn left and there's now no lane to get around you.
I don't know how long this will last, but man, we're all getting a little tired of you, Old Man Winter. We just can't get out of your grip. They say we had more snow in 1995 but I'm finding it hard to believe. At least we can take pride in knowing that, at this point in that winter, we had less. Most of it came in February and March. Hey wait, I'm not offering you any encouragement!
Deborah DiSesa Hirsch is a writer living in Stamford.
Read more: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/default/article/OK-Winter-you-win-I-surrender-997455.php#ixzz1D6wkTGC0
OK, Winter, you win. I surrender.
Published: 06:51 p.m., Friday, February 4, 2011
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I admit I liked the first couple of storms, watching the flakes drift down, draping the trees in white. Not so much the next few, when the branches started to snap.
Winter, you won me back on my early morning jogs, the moon lighting up the snow (though I did have to dodge the snow plows, and came close to getting squashed more times than I'd like to count).
Pity the poor plow drivers. I overheard one yelling he'd been up 27 hours. (Hmm, how safe are we with them behind the wheel?) Even they are getting sick of you (and they're the only ones making money).
You've made the streets so dangerous. With so much snow and nowhere to go, intersections are inch out, if you dare. Who knew driving could be fraught with such fear? And the streets themselves. How many places are just one car length wide? Before these storms, on dry streets, no one ever gave the right-of-way. Now we all do. Maybe we're just afraid. Hey, at least we've all learned a new word. Tertiary.
There's something about all this snow that makes me feel unsettled. Maybe it's the routine of my life interrupted. For one thing, kids home more days than they're in school. I love being with my son but I love it even more when he's in school.
I went to school in Syracuse and this is a Syracuse Winter. A tower downtown used to light its tip in white when it was going to snow. It was white every night. This is starting to feel like that. I'd like to use my rake for leaves, not for knocking down icicles.
It could be worse, like North Dakota, which currently has 25 feet of snow and where they allegedly top telephone poles with flags so that the plows can find the road.
But actually, I do see a good side to all of this. Drivers are more patient, it seems, more willing to let others go first when there's a huge snow drift blocking one side of the road. And there's no honking when you're stopped to turn left and there's now no lane to get around you.
I don't know how long this will last, but man, we're all getting a little tired of you, Old Man Winter. We just can't get out of your grip. They say we had more snow in 1995 but I'm finding it hard to believe. At least we can take pride in knowing that, at this point in that winter, we had less. Most of it came in February and March. Hey wait, I'm not offering you any encouragement!
Deborah DiSesa Hirsch is a writer living in Stamford.
Read more: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/default/article/OK-Winter-you-win-I-surrender-997455.php#ixzz1D6wkTGC0
WinterFedUp
Just about had it with winter? Read my take on it, http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/default/article/OK-Winter-you-win-I-surrender-997455.php
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