Winternight Wonderland Adventure of DEATH
 

So I stepped off a bus today and wanted to take a shortcut over a snowdrift, thinking I could Legolas that sucker. I stepped up fine, one very tall step, and with my next step I plummeted heel over frickin head into two feet of light, almost gaseous powder. It became roughly four feet deep before I got through to the ploughed road, and I was wading in snow up to my tits. Never done that before, I thought, so I went out to search for a crevice where the snow might have gathered deep enough to swim in. In which case I'd probably not swim so much as sink like a ship sailing over a gas pocket. Also CC gave me the idea to document it on camera, which sucked because my camera is 3/4 dead and doesn't believe in light reflected from snow banks. Nonetheless:

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I thought I should document the Land of Streetlights and Ploughed Roads where the adventure begins. Note the two foot snow layer on top of the freaking fence.

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Down towards the river, there's still some streetlights keeping the dark at bay, but wide untouched fields of snow. In summer this is a wide untouched field of grass where sometimes children play.

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This is not an excavator with speed lines but just an unsteady hand and a crappy camera. It is however a tiny excavator parked on someone's front lawn, buried in snow. Someone's not going to get their gardening project done this year.

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Darkness presses in, and there's no road left. A track of footsteps tell us I'm not the first one to go this way tonight. We can see the forest looming in the distance.

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I tried to photoshop in a little visibility here, but ugh. I don't even know what this picture is here for, since the one I took with the flash on is much better. You can see how dark it would be if it wasn't for the faint glow of the snow, I guess

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A narrow path through the woods, which if you follow it for about a kilometer leads to a nice resting place with a wooden bench and a table overlooking the river. But we're not going to follow it quite that far.

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Here's the ravine, built up from a once large tributary to the river cutting through the soft earth. Unfortunately it's filled with young trees that have managed to block out the snowfall, completely ruining my swimming pool plan. The powder down there wasn't deeper than three or four feet. Which didn't stop me from splashing around like an ice seal of course. It was so much fun I forgot to take pictures.

How anticlimactic.

Soo what are you doing to the winter? Or with it?

Gotta ask, don't you get cold?

And I'm waiting for it to go away.

I do not. I just get hungry. :)

My today's winter related adventure was me walking 30 minutes through a snowy town with Non-Euclidean Streets (I made a song about that), where the word plow is not in the dictionaries and pedestrian crossing become invisible under the snow. A land where buses and moms don't come to pick one up. Which really is only necessary because you wrecked your own car in a glorious display of, well fuck you, this looks like a great place to drive off the road.

I DID NOT KNOW THE WAY BUT I ENDED UP AT THE STATION!

The End.

tits or GTFO

Naw, in Minnesota it looks a lot like that after the Twin Cities got hit with 14 inches of snow a week ago and then another 3-5 today. It's...it's a lot of snow, not used to this much at once.

Yeah yeah Canada people "blah blah that's a light dusting" FOAD you heathen bastards.

Yeah, this. Cos seriously, fuck snow!

The only thing weather-wise I'm getting before Christmas is the slight possibility of rain.

I want some goddamned snow.

Snow is awesome, and we're finally getting some here. Took long enough. It's been way too warm this winter. And October and November.

We pretty much never see the snow pile more than six inches high (plowed banks notwithstanding), though at least half of that is because we have damn good snowplows. Rather necessary with all the colleges in the area.

It looks awfully lot like Finland. (Mostly the house in the first pic makes me feel that way, we are such rip offs of Swedes)


And just going to say that it's not easy to be tall person when there used to be so much more snow when I was just like a fire extinguisher. Good times, nearly drowing in the snow. Sigh.

But at least there's enough snow to enjoy walking. Three hours is pretty patriotic on Independence Day.

And it's absolutely stupid that I must work indoors when it's snowing gently and it's not dark yet.

edit:// And like totally, snow angels are rad