20051118.0900

20051118.0900

Darker today. We are losing daylight pretty quickly. But it is also warm today, 5C, so the snow is melting and the water is running down the street. Now that a good melt is underway, you can only hope that it melts the rest of the ice on the streets and sidewalks. Otherwise this water freezes solid to a slick sheen. Scary slippery. The people have ways of dealing with it. They have traction spikes that slip onto your shoes – urban crampons if you will. The cars all have studded tires.

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Wind rushing around the house with a muffled roar. Occasional whooshes of individual breezes eddying around the corners. What must the weather have felt like to people in ye olden tymes?