Snow in the Big Apple

Our latest news is a record snowfall in New York and our tristate area. The forecasters - great pundits that they are! - had been predicting '6 to 12'. Don and I had orchestra tickets for Saturday night, and debated whether to drive down or take the train. We decided to drive, and fortunately for us the storm didn't really start until about 7 pm, and didn't pick up steam until after midnight. So we had dinner with Elizabeth at a pretty good Spanish/Mediterranean/Tapas place on the upper westside, then went off to hear Lorin Maazel conduct Mozart's last three symphonies (39, 40, 41). The music was good - 39th was workman-like, but they picked up steam with the 40th and the Jupiter.

By the time we got out of Lincoln Center the wind had picked up and it was snowing fairly hard. Its times like these I'm glad I bought the gas-guzzling SUV - the roads were bad, but we slowly navigated our way north and got home by midnight. Which was good, because that's when the storm really started to pick up. We had snow falling at up to 5 inches per hour for awhile - by morning there was over 2 feet, and it was still coming down! Reminded me of a good old Chardon, Ohio winter storm! That's what I get for making fun of the groundhog. After three hours of shoveling and very sore muscles, we could get cars out of the driveway. I gotta get a snowblower!

Here are some pictures of the front of our house and the back deck the day after - its a beautiful, sunny day!