For the second day in a row the sun is shining here in
Connecticut, but there aren’t a whole lot of people outside enjoying it. It’s
eerily quiet, with far less traffic than normal; events have been canceled all
over the state and, like our neighbors -- and many, many more -- we have an
unplowed driveway and no hope of getting out. The pictures below show my
progress in digging out the cars, but until that wall of snow is moved out of
the way even the best four-wheel drive vehicle aint [sic] going nowhere.
So it’s day three of reading, relaxing, watching videos and
trying to coax the dogs to poop with three feet of snow brushing against their
butts. I’m calling it three feet, but it’s very possibly more. The official
read for the nearest town, Milford, was 38 inches. We’re further inland than
they are, and higher up, so its very likely we got 40 inches – or more.
I’ve written all our student workers and told them to stay
home today; the tutors in the residential colleges are likewise homebound,
though many of them will work via Skype or telephone. Yale will make the call
on Monday’s classes around 4pm today. It’s highly unusual for Yale to cancel
classes, but the report from New Haven (34 inches) is that there are mountains
of snow yet to be removed and some major roads that haven’t been touched.
A tutor in Hamden (40 inches) wrote to tell me that the snow
is too high for a lot of the plows so they’ve had to call in front-loaders,
which of course makes the job much slower.
It’s winter in New England, so all this is to be expected,
but I’m not the first to note that storms seem to be getting more intense and
seem to wreak more havoc. Are there really people out there who still believe
that humanity is not affecting the planet’s climate? What will it take to
convince them?
Maybe I should invite them to shovel off my driveway, or to
remove all the trees that have fallen in this winter’s three storms.
Making progress on digging the cars out
Voila! Now if there was only a driveway to drive them on.
My friend Suzanne took this shot of her husband Michael in North Haven. Look at that snow! And those are NOT drifts.
Glad you at least have power this time. As for the Climate Change denying idiots, it is willful ignorance and there is no amount of evidence to convince them. Even when it kills them, as they take their last breath, it will be to curse those 'left wing scientists' who have somehow manipulated things to LOOK like there is climate change.
ReplyDeleteGive Suzanne and Michael my best.