Snowing

It's snowing today. It started as rain, changed over to ice, and moved on to big, heavy wet snow around noon. At first, it looked like this:

(That's my car, by the way, serving as the dutiful comparison point. Such a good sport, my car. I'm pretty sure that it's saying, "What the hell? I thought you said there wouldn't be any more of this nonsense after we left the NEPIW! Where's my garage??")

After an hour or so, it looked like this:

The car is even more unhappy. If you look closely, I believe you can see an obscene gesture or two.

Anyway, it kept snowing, and snowing, and snowing. Now, at 4:45PM, it looks like this:

The car's obscene gestures are now hidden in the blanket of snow. I think I can still hear a muffled, and chattery expletive or two.

The snow is kind of pretty:

Any other Sunday and this weather event would have meant a guaranteed day off as the college town and Big City shut down until the big thaw. Instead, the snow arrived on the weekend that starts Spring Break. In other words, a weekend when I don't have to teach on Monday. My mother, a former schoolteacher, used to call this kind of ill-timed snowstorm, "a waste of perfectly good snow." I have a whole new appreciation for her sentiment.

The power just flickered in my apartment. Not feeling good about the snow anymore.