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fandomsecrets2012-12-23 03:02 pm
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Re: Describe your winter-y neighburhood.
(Anonymous) 2012-12-24 03:33 am (UTC)(link)People are supposed to clear the snow of the sidewalks (usually with big shovels) but not all do so. The city also sends snowplows around, large ones for the streets and smaller ones for some sidewalks. In addition to that, in many places they distribute gravel on the sidewalks. If the sidewalk hasn't been swept and it stays cold, the snow gets this slightly sandshore-like texture (for lack of a better description) after many people have walked over it.
Anyway, the ground and the roofs were covered in snow for about 1.5 or 2 weeks, which means that everything looked quite a bit brighter because the snow reflects the light. Then it started thawing until only some of the places where people had dumped the snow from the sidewalk and some sad remains of the snow people were left as icy, dirty clumps of snow.
On Wednesday, it snowed about 5 cm, but shortly after that, it started raining. At first, the temperatures were still below 0°C, so surfaces not covered in snow turned slippery and the snow itself (fairly soggy already) was covered in a thin surface of ice, so that walking through it made really loud crunching sounds.
(Some years ago, it rained really hard on snow that was already there. We ended up with a layer of about 1 cm of ice over about 15 cm of snow. When walking on that, there was always a moment of resistance before your feet broke through the surface and when lifting your feet again, they often snagged on the layer of ice and then broke a plack of it free. It was fairly exhausting to walk for longer distances and was horribly slippery in the areas where the snow had already been cleared when it began raining.)
Anyway, last night the temperatures began rising, so now the ground is covered with patches of soggy snow switching with a mixture of sloppy, muddy water with some ice/snow in it, as well as some slippery areas (the main roads are clear, though). In other words, winter at one of its more unpleasant sides.
tl;dr: Snow. It comes in plenty of varieties. No idea why I have so much to say about this. Possibly because I spent my childhood without snow as well.
Re: Describe your winter-y neighburhood.