Snow

That four letter word. I both love it and hate it. It makes people do some odd things and take some bizarre actions.

This dawned on me as i watched a person in midphone call cross an active street with the remnants of 5 days of lake effect snow was finally slowing down, but it adds an extra variable when you aren’t crossing at the light.

You get an interesting snap shot of how businesses and municipalities prioritize snow clean up. My landlord did send plows and shovels after the first day, but a foot or so more has fallen since then. Mountain climbing pitons might have been helpful in taking out the trash this morning. There is a private club on the next block on my street. They dutiful plowed their parking lot so all the volvo suvs can get in, but ignored their front walk. I guess they dont want to serve pedestrians, icy sidewalks preserve the membership status quo.

For an area filled with snow experience, we are prone to what is or isnt happening out my window must be the gospel for all.

The social media griping about the moving of the Bills playoff game and the Sabres game were impressive and gobsmacking. One exchange highlighted the need or lack of need for a driving ban in an area. The pro driving ban poster showed that travel was treacherous in a large area and perhaps a ban would curtail traffic feeding into that area. The anti said since he saw nothing that perhaps it wasn’t really needed.

Seeing the whole board is a good thing. The stoppages do stink. I read another series of posts complaining that authorities were overreaching in the name of safety. It wasn’t like this back “in the day.” Well, climate change shifted that.

Driving home through a white out yesterday morning was an adventure, but i was glad my company encouraged safety. Again, you got windows in snow attitudes. As the storm picked up, the powers that were busy clearing, the suburb where it sits worked to get down to pavement this morning, The city next to the suburb was not as precise but things could move. Only place where shovels weren’t moving was my landlord’s property but i was able to move.

Might have to celebrate that and make a snow fort.