After spending a good time shoveling the walk (2 hours?) we ventured out for a walk:
Jay is swooning from all the snow!
Oh wait, he's okay.
They hadn't plowed much, one track down Guilford sometime mid-storm so one car at a time could go down. As of this posting Sunday afternoon, they have yet to touch 32nd street.
From the intersection where our apartment is looking south:
and west:
and north:
and east (note the lack of plowing):
The tree is threatening the car behind Jay's more than his, but still scary.
Here's my poor car:
This is St. Paul, the "main street" of Charles Village, therefore partially plowed:
Many more pedestrians on the road than people, though. There wasn't much of anywhere for people to drive to, just about everything in the city was closed. At Wyman Park nearby, a crowd had gathered at the top of a steep hill to sled on whatever they had around. I saw a couple of legitimate sleds, but also cardboard, innertubes, garbage can lids, even a plastic under-the-bed type bin. That one didn't go so well and was in pieces halfway down the hill. Ah, college kids...
Not much has changed around the immediate area in the 24 hours since I took these pictures except for some people cleaning off their cars and a few managing to get out on the road (if they are parked on Guilford). We will head to the pub this evening to watch the Superbowl and get out of the house for a bit (wouldn't want to go stir crazy). And we will continue our mid-western judgment of Baltimore's snow removal inadequacies (we're not sure how Jay's going to get his car out to go to work tomorrow if they haven't plowed 32nd). And we'll try and get to the grocery store sometime between being able to get our cars out and before the next snowfall that's supposed to come, oh, this Tuesday...
Update: Monday night, 9:00. 32nd still not plowed. forecast for Tuesday - Wednesday storm: 16-22".
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3 comments:
Holy crap that's a load of snow! Everyone here is all up in arms because we're expecting a mere foot today. But I want a complete stand still, the kind where no one can go to work and everything is on mute and I get to stay at home and take nice naps with my Snugglebot.
Tdog, that's exactly what's going on here. Schools are closed throughout something like six counties and Baltimore City. No one is going to work. Only emergency vehicles are allowed on the roads. Oh, and the federal government is closed, however crazy that might sound.
i feel jealous, I miss the snow and seeing trees covered like that!
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