Weeee.
Work was shut down at noon yesterday, and completely cancelled today. I was the only one of 5 people on my team at work including my boss that showed up for work at all. Pretty much the entire state is paralyzed today, all the major highways are still closed and will be until this evening. The plows havent even started to dig out the side streets yet, according to the news they probably won't get to them until late tonight or sometime tomorrow.. It started snowing yesterday morning around 6am and came along with 30-40mph winds that sustained through the night. It is still snowing pretty hard, although around 10:00am the wind stopped so now it is snowing rather pleasantly. It is supposed to stop around 3 this afternoon.
Pics:
My cat playing on my balcony yesterday afternoon. He had fun for about 30 seconds and decided snow was cold and came back inside
The view from my apartment at around 2pm yesterday. I had a rocking snow cornice going for about 3 hours, but it fell before it had a chance to get truly impressive
My neighbors' both survived to be pretty impressive through.
Up Close
My parking Lot. There is actually a car under that mound on the left. Someone dug his way out of the center spot this morning, but most people haven't bothered yet.
Trees.
There is a Mazda Miata under there.
From the other side.
Hampden Avenue. Normally a busy thoroughfare, but virtually deserted today, people are just starting to venture out though, when I was taking pictures someone cruised by riding a snow machine down the highway.
The Cemetary across the road from my apartment, all but the highest tombstones are completely covered. It looks like an empty field.
Hampden again.
Why.... what a lovely murder of crows...
They are everywhere in my parking lot. Some dumbass feeds them, and did again this morning so they're busy eating all the seed. It would be awesome, except big ass crows leave big ass crow shit on all the cars in the parking lot.
More Crows, the bird in the foreground to the right is actually a falcon.
I had to abandon my car at a park and ride about 2 miles from my house yesterday afternoon. I took the train to work as I normally do, but by the time I got back to my car at around 11:45 am It was already buried in, and the road was undriveable because so many cars were stranded. I left it there and walked about 2 miles home. Luckily I was prepared and it was more of an adventure than anything. Sometime today I think I'll head back and try to retrieve the car since I'm sure I'll have to be at work on friday.
