Photos 28 Feb 2010 09:11 am
Snow Again
- Sorry folks, but this looks to be a repeat of last week’s repeated pictures from a snowfall in 2007. But it’s not; this is last Thursday/Friday. I just can’t help myself when it comes to big snowfalls. We had about 12″ this week, so that seemed a lot to me. The newscasters were saying upwards of 20″, but they’re always fulla crap.
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2On the left you can see the weather at the end of Thursday.
On the right it’s the start of the new day, Friday.
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On Thursday night, going home it was a mess. It had rained all day
sort of a soupy, slushy mess of wet goo. Every corner had about a
foot of water you had to step in, around or through to get across
the street. Let me tell you it gets annoying.
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I walked across Bleecker Street heading toward the subway, at
about 7pm. It looks nice here, but it was a wet mess.
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The snow was wet wet wet and heavy.
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By 5:30 the next morning there was a different picture as I left
my apartment on 30th Street. This was the height of the storm.
Big thick, fluffy snowflakes everywhere.
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Here’s Park Avenue. No cars in sight. It was impossible driving,
though a bus crawled past me at one point.
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The over-busy construction site was drawn to a lull.
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This was Bleecker Street from the vantage point of the
old Portuguese Church on Carmine Street.
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Across from the church are two planters full of tiny trees.
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Here’s the view of my studio street, Bedford Street.
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Looking down the block toward my tiny sign.
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I was the last person to see the entrance steps look like this.
I cleared each step as I walked down.
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I went inside and put my things away and went out to shovel.
My boy Robbie came out to keep me company and try to
figure out what had happened.
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He kept going out all morning and coming back in covered
with wet snow. I regret I didn’t call him Snowball.
on 28 Feb 2010 at 9:41 am 1.steve fisher said …
Michael: Nice snaps.
on 28 Feb 2010 at 10:52 am 2.Michael said …
Thanks, Steve, that means a lot coming from you.
on 28 Feb 2010 at 12:51 pm 3.Roberto said …
Hello Michael, sorry for my bad english (I’m Italian). I’m creating a website about animation. I hope you don’t mind if I use some images from your blog.
on 28 Feb 2010 at 1:19 pm 4.Kate said …
That’s the first time I’ve ever seen Park Ave like that and it’s a little creepy.
on 28 Feb 2010 at 1:44 pm 5.Ian Lumsden said …
We’ve had a tiny amount of snow here in the UK too. Funny thing though, your snow looks good. And black cats are lucky.
on 28 Feb 2010 at 1:48 pm 6.Eddie Fitzgerald said …
Terrific pictures. They fill me with nostalgia for a city I’ve never lived in.
on 28 Feb 2010 at 2:10 pm 7.Michael said …
Roberto, I don’t mind as long as you give credit where credit is due.
on 28 Feb 2010 at 9:22 pm 8.Jenny said …
All of these pictures are catnip to me, but the ones of your studio resident are especially wonderful. What aplomb!