Still More Snow Cleanup
Feb. 3rd, 2026 05:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
varidogAfter a week under freezing, we're finally hitting a day above freezing.
I'm still hacking away at the snow, making the sidewalks better. This helps me to appreciate how much work we get from the sun. Normally, cleanup is far easier because we've literally got the sun melting everything away.
Because of the two centimeters of sleet, colloquially called snowcrete, a portmanteau of snow and concrete, we've got ice blocks everywhere. It feels like we're in Antarctica. We even have vast mounds of this stuff in the cul-de-sac and on the street corners. The kids are climbing them like mountains. (Yay, kids.) Some folks are even decorating with them.
Around the metro station, they finally cleared the curbs along the street, exposing some parking places, and clearing out the bus stop for my bus. The rest of the bus stops aren't so lucky.
My friend's wife slipped on the ice and broke her arm. One of my primary strategies has been creating a safe walkway, and doing that so that I selfishly don't fall down and break my own arm.
The neighborhood cats are all out, and all look to have survived this cold snap, even this year's kittens, the black pair, who are about nine months old now.
I look forward to a day above freezing before the next cold snap rolls in.
I'm still hacking away at the snow, making the sidewalks better. This helps me to appreciate how much work we get from the sun. Normally, cleanup is far easier because we've literally got the sun melting everything away.
Because of the two centimeters of sleet, colloquially called snowcrete, a portmanteau of snow and concrete, we've got ice blocks everywhere. It feels like we're in Antarctica. We even have vast mounds of this stuff in the cul-de-sac and on the street corners. The kids are climbing them like mountains. (Yay, kids.) Some folks are even decorating with them.
Around the metro station, they finally cleared the curbs along the street, exposing some parking places, and clearing out the bus stop for my bus. The rest of the bus stops aren't so lucky.
My friend's wife slipped on the ice and broke her arm. One of my primary strategies has been creating a safe walkway, and doing that so that I selfishly don't fall down and break my own arm.
The neighborhood cats are all out, and all look to have survived this cold snap, even this year's kittens, the black pair, who are about nine months old now.
I look forward to a day above freezing before the next cold snap rolls in.
