Blizz '05

Michele is posting blizzard photographs from Long Island.

"Ah!... Looxury!"

This is what Daisy Hollow looked like at 2:30pm --

The curve in the road is about 300 feet away from where I'm standing. The new snow is about ankle deep right now, and falling at a furious rate. It'll be interesting to see how this goes, although it won't be strange to anyone living out here.

Later --


The south end of the road about 4:00pm. I'd been out and about visiting a friend so I don't know how often this was getting plowed. Those drifts beginning to blow across the road are typical down that stretch, which is the agricultural flat of a broad valley running just about on the axis of the prevailing winds. Those drifts are there more or less all the time for weeks on end.


Clearing the flats and headed up the turn for the "dark forest" section of The Hollow. (You may observe that this stuff was snapped through the windshield, under way.) The snow tracks you see in the road are showing you new snow nearly ankle deep.

It's now getting nearly too dark to shoot any more around here, but I might take a jaunt into town to look around.

It's fourteen degrees out, right now.

Laterer (6:30pm) --


A flash-lit take to illustrate how much snow is in the air. This is looking south down the road. My driveway is on the right, about as deep into the photograph as that large machine, which...


...belongs to my neighbor up the road, who gets a kick out of managing big snow with big machines. So, he makes a hobby of plowing driveways up & down the road when it comes on like this.


That shot is looking directly up the middle of the road. The snow on the road is a couple of inches deep, and the piles that he's pushed to the sides are eighteen to twenty-four inches deep, anyway. The new snow lying on the ground since this storm began is about four to six inches, and piling fast.


8:30pm --


Downtown Village of Dryden -- an inch or two laying in the streets.


Up the hill past Town Line Road -- Mike's vehicles; in for the evening.


Over the hill into The Hollow -- the right lane's been scraped relatively recently but the blade hasn't come back the other way, yet. Half an inch or so in my lane, two or three inches in the opposite lane. (Those could be my tracks from about a half-hour earlier.)