Tag Archives: snow
Icicle Races
One of the more interesting events around this crazy snow is the icicle propagation we have here in Baltimore. On more buildings that I can count, I have seen icicles inches thick, hanging halfway down to the street.
This is my humble contribution, the growth of an icicle on my back porch. After the first [...]
Apocalypse sNow III: OMG WTF SNO
It is eleven-thirty at night, twenty-seven degrees outside and doing whatever it is that snow does when it is coming down in large, crazy amounts. Pouring down snow? Snow doesn’t really pour. It is not driving, either, not yet anyway. Fine, then the snow is gently, yet persistently falling the fuck down. It is dumping [...]
Apocaplypse sNow II: Activity
Baltimore has been snowed in for three days, and with another big storm on the way tomorrow night, there has been lots of chatter about an inevitable spike in the birth rate nine months from now. That kind of thing sounded a little saucy and romantic to me when I was younger, but as an [...]
Apocalypse sNow II: The Morning After
Some of the roads in our neighborhood still have not been plowed, and even one major road is still covered, except for the spots with southern exposure.
Apocalypse sNow II: First Looks
The official total (so far) from the neighbor’s yard is twenty-four inches, and still going.
Apocalypse sNow II
I have never seen the sky look quite like this -not even in Minnesota- and it may be part of the reason why I am wide awake at 1:30 am (that and the beerownies). The sky is so thick with snow that it is silver white, as light as dusk or early dawn. The view [...]
Apocalypse sNow
From the sound of things on Friday, our region was to be struck by one to two feet of apocalypse, but it turned out we got one to two feet of snow, instead. My classes were tiny on Friday and the traffic was ridiculous as people scrambled to buy their (everybody, now) bread, milk, and [...]
Snow Day
This is one of my favorite sensations: sitting in my house in the morning, laundry spinning in the dryer, snow falling. Even when I can’t see the snow, there is this snow awareness; the difference in the light and the movement of sound around the snowflakes. No slamming doors, just muffled openings and closings. And, [...]
Icicle Races II