Extreme Weather

[jesse_the_k]

Around the corner from me, Craig Schreiner, photog for the Wisconsin State Journal, captured this scene.

More than a foot of snow coats oaks, box alders, and other shrubbery, bent under the weight. A letter carrier sorts mail as he travels towards us on the unshoveled sidewalk, with a 40-foot oak broken off resting on the ground behind him.

Earlier I took my standard walk around the block, verrrrrry slowly. But that was 30 degrees and 25 mph ago.

It's MyGuy's 58th birthday, and he got to play in the snow all day! Sidewalks, patio for the dog, off the roof (we've had ice dams and geez-o-pete they are horrible). Will probably finish watching Stargate Atlantis unless Lucy's buddy, carrier Chris, makes it through with a Netflix.

We're so lucky!

Comments

[sasha_feather]

Wow, what a fantastic picture!

[susanreads]

Is that "No rain, nor snow, nor dark of night" thing about the mail?

I think that lot would stop ours; but we don't get heavy snow often. There was one day this year, in January, and it happened to be the day I had an interview at the University; I set off early knowing the buses would be a mess. The interviews were running an hour late because a guy on the panel had to get there from London first. I want a job, but not if it means being that guy.

Looks like good weather to stay indoors in, to me.

[jesse_the_k]

Well, I thought "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" was about the mail, but it isn't, officially.

It's actually Herodotus squeeing about the efficiency of the Persian mounted postal service in the latter half of the 5th century BCE.

However, one of the architects of the central NY city Post Office read Greek for pleasure. He choose the slogan to be carved on its granite wall in 1914; the Post Office (not surprisingly) approved it.

(I'm not pompous, I'm pedantic, there's a difference, let me tell you all about it.)