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Snow Report

First I looked and decided I wasn’t going to bother going to church but if the buses are running them I have no excuse.

Snow today is light and fluffy. Easy to shovel or sweep off your step. It makes for lousy snowman making snow. I tried. But it is okay for snow balls once you melt a little of the snow on the surface of the ball.
As you see the buses, or at least the 96 bus to Capitol Heights and the bus I saw along Florida Ave chugging along, they are running. Cars on the roads, but not a whole lot. Side streets are okay, one lane passable ok.

Update: Well the snow melted. Most of it anyways, and now clumps of snow on trees and sign posts are randomly attacking people. On the bus, Logan Circle was very pretty. There were tons of people out around noonish taking pictures of the white scenery. Also on the bus I overheard (can’t help it when they are yelling to each other) some guys coming from Georgetown, heading towards Shaw, about how much they made that morning shoveling driveways. They did well ($80 one guy), and looked forward to going back home for a hot meal, and maybe some cocoa. The Farmer’s Market at Dupont was small and sad. Sad because the milk people and the yogurt/cheese people were not there. *sigh*

Baby it’s cold outside

Dang dagnabit it’s cold.

You have to forgive me I am a native of the land of sunshine, shorts, and flip flops, Florida. I believe it is my right, my right I say, to walk around in sandals. The cold weather is infringing on that right and forcing me into restrictive sweaters and clunky boots.

Anyway I figure this is a good opportunity to inform you, my neighbors of some cold weather things. First, if you see a homeless person and it is under 32F (below freezing) call 800-535-7252 and someone will come around and try to get him/her into a shelter or at least provide the homeless person a blanket if they are too hardheaded and want to stay out in the cold. Second, at some point in the season we are going to get ice. You are responsible for the little stretch of sidewalk in front of your house, please salt your sidewalk so I won’t slip, fall, and sue you. The Ghetto Giant has bags of salt and ice melt in the front of the store near the cashiers, pick up a bag so you’ll have some when that first icy rain hits.