Complaining about the weather (and related), 2025

[Bob Schroeck]

<huff> 16 inches easily (that's 41 cm for you anti-Imperialists out there) now that the blizzard that just hit the Northeast US has ended. Thank gods I took advantage of an idea my brother-in-law mentioned, and parked our car at the street end of the driveway instead of the house end; that meant I only had to dig a path to the car and then the next eight feet or so to the street instead of digging out the entire freaking driveway. As a result it only took me two hours over my lunch to dig us out instead of three or more.

Also, it would appear someone complained about the half-assed job of plowing we got after the last snowstorm (barely one line wide, with six feet of snow out from the curbs on either side). This time we got a pickup with a plow do the first pass, and then the huge dumptruck with the monster plow made four or five passes, perfectly clearing out the entire width of the street. And just incidentally building a great defensive wall to protect the end of the driveway from invading Huns. Too bad we have no Huns but had a need to leave the house eventually.