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Angels have snow-blowers.

Yes, that's all. What do you expect from an atheist?

The last storm total I saw was 17.1 inches, at the airport. We haven't had so much in one go in quite some time, but I think the real problem was the high winds.

I spent most of yesterday shoveling madly, to no apparent effect. I haven't looked at the driveway yet. I am too sore to do anything today, and I was fretting about needing to get the back cleared out because we are low on cat food for the kidney-impaired, and needing to get the front cleared out so groceries can be delivered tomorrow. Yes, other people in this house can shovel, but two of the three had a miserable afternoon yesterday: after futilely attempting to find a restaurant open so they could have lunch, they found that the alley had not been plowed, and got stuck on 37th Street and had to be rescued by kindly passers-by, so that David ended up parking miles away, and then walking home because the buses were no longer running. And the third person can't do everything. But some neighbors so bundled up that I didn't recognize them did our front sidewalk, the walk from that to the house, and EVEN WENT THROUGH THE PLOW RIDGE TO THE STREET. David and Lydy brought their cars back as the angels were finishing up, so perhaps one of them knows who they are. I didn't go out to see because my boots were still wet. But I am so grateful. If it's just the back, I expect we can manage.

I am not sure whether this storm was really so bad, or whether all the budget cuts made it impossible for the city to do its job properly. Certainly the wind's blowing painfully-moved snow right back where it had been before could not have helped matters at all.

I'm very glad neither the power nor the internet went out.

May all of you who need them have angels with snow-blowers arrive in a timely fashion.

My brain is still growing back, so I don't feel I have much other news. I'm working on a report of three short, thematically-related trips that Eric and I made between August and November, but it's coming along slowly. I'd like to have written up some of the hikes Raphael and I did, too, especially to Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge, but my memory is a bit spotty at this remove.

Pamela

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