Snow
Well, you think you move away from the massive snowfalls when you go from Boston to Maryland, but not this time. Our homestead got 21.3" of snow according to the National Weather Service - that's vs. Cambridge's 18".
We spent our Sunday digging out the white lump that was our car. Marylanders are an interesting creature. Most of them freak out when it snows more than one inch. Schools close, drivers become more insane than usual, etc... But man, throw almost two feet at them and the world ends. I think maybe 12 people in our entire complex had shovels (including us). So while we dug out our cars, the rest tried to slam on the gas and back over the two feet of snow. It was great entertainment watching them fishtail and get stuck, and it also snapped our "good neighborism" into gear as we would then go help them shovel out the tires and then push them over the great hills of snow.
But, now begins the Parking Wars until the snow melts. Neighbor shall fight against neighbor to keep their clear spots while the others circle like vultures until you leave. Oh well...next week we'll be in Florida. Woohoo vacation!
Well, you think you move away from the massive snowfalls when you go from Boston to Maryland, but not this time. Our homestead got 21.3" of snow according to the National Weather Service - that's vs. Cambridge's 18".
We spent our Sunday digging out the white lump that was our car. Marylanders are an interesting creature. Most of them freak out when it snows more than one inch. Schools close, drivers become more insane than usual, etc... But man, throw almost two feet at them and the world ends. I think maybe 12 people in our entire complex had shovels (including us). So while we dug out our cars, the rest tried to slam on the gas and back over the two feet of snow. It was great entertainment watching them fishtail and get stuck, and it also snapped our "good neighborism" into gear as we would then go help them shovel out the tires and then push them over the great hills of snow.
But, now begins the Parking Wars until the snow melts. Neighbor shall fight against neighbor to keep their clear spots while the others circle like vultures until you leave. Oh well...next week we'll be in Florida. Woohoo vacation!
posted by H at
9:47 AM
2 Comments:
So were you out of power? I read alot of people in the MD area were w/o power.
Don't expect a break next week. It's cold as heck here too.
Nope, we had power, fortunately. I had a few friends who lost theirs, though.
And you should realize that "cold as heck" has an entirely different meaning for Floridians than it does for Marylanders. ;)
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