Sunday we got a titanic amount of snow. Come this morning, it was still snowing, but not nearly as fast or at the same volume. It had basically stopped accumulating, although it got a little fluffier after 8PM.
Lots of shoveling going on. There were impacts on other things. All the banks were closed as far as I could tell. So were most eateries. Garbage day has been pushed back by a day...at least. Not many of the neighbors have their barrels out, so I don't know.
Groceries were still open. Buses still running, thank God. And I think I saw a mail truck driving along, so the creed appears to be in effect.
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Yes, you certainly did get a lot of snow. Depending on where exactly the reports were coming from it looked to us that it may have been around 20 inches in Providence. I did check the Providence Journal history of the Blizzard of '78 where it reported 27 inches of snow fell that Feb. 6th. I'd always thought it was 3 feet or more. There were some great pictures if you don't remember - Hiwy 95 was inundated. Okay, maybe you'd prefer to wait until spring to look at pictures from the winter of '78.
The creed doesn't apply in this country. Every time the postal service goes on strike fewer people use it when the carriers return to work. Amazon no longer uses the Canadian post office to deliver packages. It's unfortunate.
Anyhow, I hope you've seen the last of the major snowfalls for this winter. I hope you're able to stay warm, well fed, and get to go where you need to be.
Twenty inches sounds about right. That's enough to get most places shut down, especially when those solid white sheets of snow start coming in. The Blizzard of '78 was even bigger, and nobody knew what to do with it. There's a page that goes into rather exhaustive detail about what it was like in Providence. Some pictures show places that haven't changed at all. I've been by Temple Beth-El a bunch of times and it still looks just the same.
That's a shame about the Canadian postal service. If fewer people use it after every strike, then at some point there are going to be big layoffs. That's just math.
The world goes on turning, and the next day we're all still here. And I'm eating and keeping warm well enough. Thank you.
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