Pictures of the aftermath

[pameladean]

If you are not mired in this snow (or even if you are) and want to see what things look like now, David has some photos.

http://dd-b.net/ddbcms/2010/12/we-had-some-snow/

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Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

So amazing. Here I am waiting for it to cool off enough so I can go on a bike ride and not risk overheating or sunburn, and I'm looking at those. Wow!

[pameladean]

And we're on the same continent! I wish I could send you a little pocket of cold to retreat into, just when you liked.

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[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I have had snow photos as my background for a few weeks now--the ET lives in Syracuse, and they have had about as much snow as I am tall so far this year. I like looking at his photos, but I SO do not enjoy snow any more.

[pameladean]

I didn't enjoy this blizzard as much as I thought I would, but I think with better arrangements and some strength training, I could still manage.

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[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I guess I just don't WANT to manage--that's one reason why I live here.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Wow. I heard you guys had a sports dome fall in, too. Unusual even for MN!

[pameladean]

I have to confess that I chuckled evilly when I saw that video.

The Metrodome used to collapse regularly, but we thought they had shored it up so that it wouldn't. That was a LOT of snow in a short time, though.

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[shadowflyer.livejournal.com]

That looks like my memory of the Blizzard of '78, when Gov. Grasso declared an emergency, closed the roads and walked in the snow from the governor's mansion to her emergency command and control center at the capitol. We shall not see her like again.

[pameladean]

That's awesome. I do hope you are wrong about not seeing her like again.

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[tanac.livejournal.com]

Do Not Miss. Glad you're all snug and warm.

[thinkum]

Yikes!

[boxofdelights]

Is there an eclipse to look at, where you are? It was clouded over all day here, but cleared up a few hours after moonrise.

My daughter is home from her first semester at Reed. Sometime in September she was wrestling with the realization that you cannot learn everything available about all that interests you, even if there were not also canyons to explore and fire to juggle and more people you'd really like to get to know than minutes in the day. You have one lifetime: you have to pick and choose.

Have you read Tam Lin yet, I asked her. I think it would be congenial to your mood.

No, she said. First one of her new friends begged to borrow it, and then, by the middle of September, she had no time for discretionary reading. So she brought it home and she's reading it now. "It's more satisfyingly pertinent to my life even than I was brought to expect by your descriptions," she just wrote to me.

You really captured something there.

[pameladean]

Alas, no eclipse. I looked hard at various times while I was still up, but it was a very solid, very snowy overcast. I have had to make do with apod's and others' photos.

I'm delighted that your daughter found Tam Lin congenial to her mood. I believe that Carleton has been called the Reed of the Midwest, so that may have something to do with it.

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[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

So much snow!

May you have a merry Christmas, Pamela!