Living in New York has always been a roller coaster when it comes to weather. I remember growing up with heat waves of up to 40 degrees Celsius bogging me down from skateboarding as a kid (a hobby I'm actually glad I never really picked up) and I even remember the ice storm, not just the one in 1998 where we all slept in the kitchen, but the one in 2014 where after being outside for ten minutes my nose turned bone white and was seconds away from the beginning stages of this is how you lose your nose disease. And who could forget the summer of 2012 when an actual tornado hit the river and took off the roofs of not only one of the bookstores in town, but the pizza place I practically lived in growing up all while killing many of the trees in town.
If anyone asks, tell them I stole these pictures from twitter.
Top: the roof to the bookstore
Bottom: what happened to Sergi's
Yes weather has always been a rather unpredictable mess of awful. And this week was no exception.
To give you a feel for it, this is what it looked like Monday morning as I was getting myself some breakfast.
Yeah, look at that sunrise. It was a damn beautiful day, and a warm one too, with a sea of blue above and mountains of green all around.
Well here's a photo I took two days later.
If you're wondering, yes that pile IS as tall as me.
The snowfall was so heavy that we had classes canceled for two days, the governor declared a state of emergency in my town, my workplace closed, and even 24 hour Mcdonalds managers just said hell naw and didn't bother to open up.
It took me three and a half hours to dig my car out of the snow, and that is only because two hours in a neighbor brought his snowblower over and helped me for an hour and a half.
This was taken right when I hit the two hour mark.
The only progress was finding my car by that point
I honestly don't even know what time it started snowing, it hadn't even started while I was joining my entire class who, at the courtesy of one of my professors, went out to dinner together at the indian restaurant in town to discuss, using our tastebuds, the variations of curry dishes.
I only took one picture while I was there,
and of course it had to be one of my half- finished beer
before the food made it to the table... such class..
But the snow came, and by 9:00 am they hadn't even plowed and it was becoming apparent that the "worst" of the storm was not going to hit Long Island as they had forecasted, but ended up right here in the Southern Tier, effectively trapping me and many others in home for almost three days.
I didn't mind, in fact for the first time in almost two years I pulled out my gamecube and began playing. I couldn't do any work because I had no access to a computer, so I took it as a third winter break. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And now, being almost a whole week later, things are starting to get back under control, the National guard is out here in full uniform helping remove the snow and the roads are at least drive-able.
Later today is an annual event here called Japan day, this will be my first time going, till then!
Love,
-Alexander
Wow, quite some storm! Looks like you have pictures of Potsdam and Binghamton?
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