Our Snow

The snow we’re having today isn’t your New England postcard sort of snow, falling gently and silently from the sky. It’s not a snow as it’s expereienced in the Great Plains states like Kansas or Nebraska where snow is a horizontal phenomenon rather than a vertical one.

Today our snow defies photography. It’s a swirling, roaring snow, horizontal and vertical at the same time. It surrounds and envelopes you.

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  • PD Shaw Link

    We are on the snow-mixed-with-rain front, and I just came in from shoveling off slush. It was thick and heavy enough that I thought it might become nasty when it freezes tonight. I would have enjoyed a few more inches of drier stuff so we could go sledding.

  • As of 4:30pm we have 10-12 inches of snow and there’s no sign of it letting up.

  • I live in Chicago, too, and ditto.

    (I’ve just found your blog and am checking it out.)

  • Hi, Gabriel. Welcome. Feel free to prowl around. I’m sure you’ll find a lot to agree and disagree with.

    I’ve been posting regularly here multiple times daily over the period of the last, roughly, eleven years. Arguably the best feature of this blog is the vibrant diverse group of commenters who comment regularly here. Feel free to join in the discussions. We try to maintain a reasonable level of civility.

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