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They ride along beside a frozen lake
I'd have posted this much earlier in the day if I were the sort of person who has internet on my phone, but I was shoveling out the ice shelf that used to be my mother's car at the time and then I came inside and made grilled cheese and fell over slightly for a couple of hours:
A pair of strangers just skied down my street.
THAT IS NOT NORMAL.
(I hope tomorrow does not involve the same quantity of shoveling as today.)
A pair of strangers just skied down my street.
THAT IS NOT NORMAL.
(I hope tomorrow does not involve the same quantity of shoveling as today.)
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Take care with the shoveling!
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One thing I remember about the blizzard of 78 (which I was only a kid for) was that people in Buffalo were able to ski from rooftop to rooftop.
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I've made two different kinds two nights in a row. They've been completely satisfying.
One thing I remember about the blizzard of 78 (which I was only a kid for) was that people in Buffalo were able to ski from rooftop to rooftop.
Okay, I'm sure it didn't make up for the inconvenience of needing to ski rather than walk/drive/catch buses, but that's extremely cool.
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No, although it is sort of a nice image, in a sense, if there has to be so much snow. Better than them riding snowmobiles, at least, which I've seen occasionally.
(I hope tomorrow does not involve the same quantity of shoveling as today.)
I hope your hopes will be fulfilled.
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Seriously? I've never seen a snowmobile on a residential street.
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Ayup. I don't live in the real country,* but it's near enough that some people will act as if it were. It's a couple of years since I've seen a snowmobile on the road past my house, so maybe they've got sense now.
Well, that's probably wishful thinking. I expect it's the same people as would have an ATV out on the streets. Or at least it's people with the same mentality.
*The neighbourhood is mostly suburban in nature. There is one working dairy farm a couple of miles from us, although I think they're a viable business mostly because they got the idea of starting up a farm-made ice cream stand. They make a good coconut with bits of chocolate in.
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Considering a driving ban was in effect until late this afternoon and the MBTA has suspended service until (at the earliest) Monday, it probably was a highly efficient means of transport.
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You rock.
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Nine
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Apparently the buses were running as far as the Red Line, but my father walked the seven miles from Harvard to Beacon Hill in order to bring supplies to my snowed-in aunt Naomi in 1978. (Hence the line in "Being Providence," which is not fiction.) I am told she moved for non-environmental reasons, but I also notice that my aunt Naomi never came back from California after that.
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That sounds lovely. Photographs?
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