Day: February 23, 2023

As predicted it isn’t a Thursday unless we get snow, freezing rain and canceled buses for the kids school. It was pretty windy last night, so rather than straight accumulation, we got knee high drifts on our side of the street. Filling the driveway, back patio, front walk way, and against the door itself. Then, of course, as I near the end of the driveway, the plow comes by and packs in an additional three foot high wall of heavy snow. My biceps are a singing. My back howls the melody. And to top it off we have freezing rain which began before I had even managed to finish. This winter is weird. Thursdays. What a weird succession of coincidences for most of this winter’s storms to have hit on a Thursday. Is it a delusion? Misremembered? Nope, just an odd series of snowstorms that affected us on Thursdays. Weird right? Yeah…

The cable was out almost all day yesterday, which was pretty weird. Phone and internet were still good though. Odd. Had some excitement on our street yesterday, with three fire trucks, two red support SUVs, an ambulance, five police cars, a rapid response EMS team vehicle, and a special response unit EMS vehicle, and more fire fighters than I could count. The street smelled faintly of smoke, but no flames were visible. I saw the fire fighters grab hooks & ladders in a mad rush. Hoses unfurled and everything. No one was brought out or taken to the ambulance, so hopefully everything is fine. Later on the electrical people, and gas company came by, so I assume that something had happened.

I didn’t use the panorama function so I don’t have a shot with every single vehicle in it. They lined up beyond my house up the street, as well as well below down towards the affected home. For about 90 minutes or so it was a very alive little street.