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Adventures with an unreliable narrator.
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Feb 19 03: entropy sets in
It was beautiful for a while, and quiet. About one car every 4 blocks on 9th Ave, and random scatterings of locals on foot, tossing snowballs at one another and generally taking in the magic.
But now it ain’t. The streets are being plowed, and shopkeepers are digging two-foot-wide channels in the sidewalks in front of their stores for foot traffic. And all that displaced snow piles up in between. It’s well over three feet deep in places—at least, it was, until the melting started. The trodden snow breaks down into cold dirty grey-brown sludge, which pools up at the streetcorners. The puddles often look just like wet pavement, until you try to walk across them, at which point you discover that they are deep enough to swamp your boot-tops. Until the snow melts enough to uncover the openings to the storm-drains, the lakes can only expand, spreading three, four, five feet out into the street on either side.
In short, it’s gross. I’m staying home until March.