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dragonlady7) wrote2019-12-11 01:56 pm
dragonlady7) wrote2019-12-11 01:56 pm
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oh lake-effect snow. i woke up late, around 7, and let the cat out, thinking she wouldn’t go, but she did, so i stood there at the open door and looked outside at the bare concrete and looked at the weather app on my phone which told me it was 22 and “a nice day”, ha the sun’s not even really up yet, what a dumb app.
left the door cracked, went to make coffee, cat came back in and i pushed the door shut. went to sit on the couch, as normal, looked at instagram on my phone.
My coworker’s wife had a picture of herself in a fur-lined hood and her eyes rolled sideways and had captioned it “lake-effect snow” and I laughed; they live in South Buffalo and always get hit worse than us in the northtowns. Just the way the lake shore is shaped, it tends not to hit us. Resolved to text my coworker and ask if he was gonna make it in; some of our work can be done remotely and if I’m there in person to set it up, even more can be, so it’s not a big deal if he doesn’t make it.
Got up to get dressed and glanced out the window and did a double-take. Three inches of snow on the ground, on my car, falling so fast I can’t see across the street. When the fuck did that happen!!!! I let the cat out onto bare pavement 20 minutes ago!!!
Anyway I hurried my ass up and got dressed and went in to work, windshield wipers flying to try to keep an open field of view, traffic slow and careful but crazy because even as two plows went by on my two-mile drive the lines on the road are totally buried.
I’ve made it in and am settled in now, and if I have to I’ll walk home and leave my car here, because holy shit, it is snowing hard. The joy of lake effect is that you may know when it might start but you never know when it might stop, it’s a kind of ongoing thing that keeps happening as long as the wind stays that direction. It’s got to be at a particular angle to hit us in this neighborhood, but clearly, it’s doing that right now, so.
Oh here’s a good explainer [http://thevane.gawker.com/the-mechanics-behind-lake-effect-snow-natures-greatest-1659711094] (RIP Gawker) of lake effect snow, written around an event that trapped my coworker in his house and left me the only one able to report to work, ELL OH ELL, and here’s a gif from it if you don’t want to read but just want to see:
(This is the whole Great Lakes, the dark blue are them and the brown is the land. I live on lake Erie which is the second-to-rightmost there, and I’m at the “BUF” plus sign in the lower right, and you can see how that’s right at the upper edge of one of the aqua bands? yeah the snow usually misses me just like that. Not today, though!)
oh lake-effect snow. i woke up late, around 7, and let the cat out, thinking she wouldn’t go, but she did, so i stood there at the open door and looked outside at the bare concrete and looked at the weather app on my phone which told me it was 22 and “a nice day”, ha the sun’s not even really up yet, what a dumb app.
left the door cracked, went to make coffee, cat came back in and i pushed the door shut. went to sit on the couch, as normal, looked at instagram on my phone.
My coworker’s wife had a picture of herself in a fur-lined hood and her eyes rolled sideways and had captioned it “lake-effect snow” and I laughed; they live in South Buffalo and always get hit worse than us in the northtowns. Just the way the lake shore is shaped, it tends not to hit us. Resolved to text my coworker and ask if he was gonna make it in; some of our work can be done remotely and if I’m there in person to set it up, even more can be, so it’s not a big deal if he doesn’t make it.
Got up to get dressed and glanced out the window and did a double-take. Three inches of snow on the ground, on my car, falling so fast I can’t see across the street. When the fuck did that happen!!!! I let the cat out onto bare pavement 20 minutes ago!!!
Anyway I hurried my ass up and got dressed and went in to work, windshield wipers flying to try to keep an open field of view, traffic slow and careful but crazy because even as two plows went by on my two-mile drive the lines on the road are totally buried.
I’ve made it in and am settled in now, and if I have to I’ll walk home and leave my car here, because holy shit, it is snowing hard. The joy of lake effect is that you may know when it might start but you never know when it might stop, it’s a kind of ongoing thing that keeps happening as long as the wind stays that direction. It’s got to be at a particular angle to hit us in this neighborhood, but clearly, it’s doing that right now, so.
Oh here’s a good explainer [http://thevane.gawker.com/the-mechanics-behind-lake-effect-snow-natures-greatest-1659711094] (RIP Gawker) of lake effect snow, written around an event that trapped my coworker in his house and left me the only one able to report to work, ELL OH ELL, and here’s a gif from it if you don’t want to read but just want to see:
(This is the whole Great Lakes, the dark blue are them and the brown is the land. I live on lake Erie which is the second-to-rightmost there, and I’m at the “BUF” plus sign in the lower right, and you can see how that’s right at the upper edge of one of the aqua bands? yeah the snow usually misses me just like that. Not today, though!)
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The start date for winter is and always has been nonsense, however.