12 June 2014
09 February 2013
Nemo
Okay, I have to start by saying I'm a little annoyed by the Weather Channel up and naming all kinds of storms these days. Where do they get off anyway? Isn't that NOAA's job? And another thing... why do all the media people jump on board with the names anyway?
Alright, enough of that. This weekends blizzard has been a lot of fun for us. I love, love, love being all cozy and warm in my house with the snow coming down outside and knowing that I don't have much of anything I absolutely have to accomplish the next day except shovelling, cooking, and hanging out with the family. Such was this weekend... for us anyway.
Yesterday Alex's boss emailed and told him to work from home. Bless her! I simply cannot imagine the commute that would have been... Yuck. Instead, Alex worked from home and the library, and ended the day by running some errands in the evening. He told me the snow wasn't just flakes by the time he was pulling in, but more like snowballs dropping from the sky.
Alex said he took this shot so he would always remember how much he loves his truck. Look at it just going along with no trouble. Or rather imagine it in motion...
We went out later that night to find our front lights being buried but making cool patterns in the snow. The street was already starting to look pretty snowy.
Then morning came. This wasn't our biggest storm since we've been here (see old posts for that one), but it was fairly sizeable. We estimate that we got around 18 inches. The drifts got quite a bit bigger than that though. I can only imagine the towns just to the Northeast of us... upwards of 30 inches. Wow.
The kids all had an awesome time playing outside ALL DAY. In fact, Nico woke me up at about 7:30 this morning asking if he could go outside. I did make him wait until I was out of bed. Once he was out there, he stayed out until about 2:00. Ellie was a little less hardy in the morning, but made up for it in spades in the afternoon. They both built snow forts and had a snowball fight. After what seemed like an eternity of preparation, I did actually mange to get the little boys out there. They LOVED playing in the snow. They had NO interest in coming in... ever. Spencer, the neighbor boy came over to join in the fun too.
Alex put our snowblower to good use today. We bought it last year and this is only our second time using it. He claims it paid for itself in today's use alone. His back thanks him.
We are happy to be safe and warm in our house now. And judging by the state of my car, I am likely to be safe and warm in my house for some time... luckily they cancelled church tomorrow or I would have actually had to dig my car out. Meanwhile... we are ready for the next big weather event. Bring it on!
Alright, enough of that. This weekends blizzard has been a lot of fun for us. I love, love, love being all cozy and warm in my house with the snow coming down outside and knowing that I don't have much of anything I absolutely have to accomplish the next day except shovelling, cooking, and hanging out with the family. Such was this weekend... for us anyway.
Yesterday Alex's boss emailed and told him to work from home. Bless her! I simply cannot imagine the commute that would have been... Yuck. Instead, Alex worked from home and the library, and ended the day by running some errands in the evening. He told me the snow wasn't just flakes by the time he was pulling in, but more like snowballs dropping from the sky.
Alex said he took this shot so he would always remember how much he loves his truck. Look at it just going along with no trouble. Or rather imagine it in motion...
We went out later that night to find our front lights being buried but making cool patterns in the snow. The street was already starting to look pretty snowy.
Then morning came. This wasn't our biggest storm since we've been here (see old posts for that one), but it was fairly sizeable. We estimate that we got around 18 inches. The drifts got quite a bit bigger than that though. I can only imagine the towns just to the Northeast of us... upwards of 30 inches. Wow.
The kids all had an awesome time playing outside ALL DAY. In fact, Nico woke me up at about 7:30 this morning asking if he could go outside. I did make him wait until I was out of bed. Once he was out there, he stayed out until about 2:00. Ellie was a little less hardy in the morning, but made up for it in spades in the afternoon. They both built snow forts and had a snowball fight. After what seemed like an eternity of preparation, I did actually mange to get the little boys out there. They LOVED playing in the snow. They had NO interest in coming in... ever. Spencer, the neighbor boy came over to join in the fun too.
Alex put our snowblower to good use today. We bought it last year and this is only our second time using it. He claims it paid for itself in today's use alone. His back thanks him.
We are happy to be safe and warm in our house now. And judging by the state of my car, I am likely to be safe and warm in my house for some time... luckily they cancelled church tomorrow or I would have actually had to dig my car out. Meanwhile... we are ready for the next big weather event. Bring it on!
30 January 2013
random old photo
Someone at work just sent me this photo from a few years ago. It was the opening of my first park design, the 369th Infantry Memorial in Harlem.
Nico was in the stroller, and would later sit down to play in the middle of 5th Ave, part of which had been closed off for the occasion.
Sorry we haven't posted much lately. We've been doing reconstruction work on the entire upstairs floor, and our lives have been rather chaotic as a result. Hopefully more posts are coming soon.
Nico was in the stroller, and would later sit down to play in the middle of 5th Ave, part of which had been closed off for the occasion.
Sorry we haven't posted much lately. We've been doing reconstruction work on the entire upstairs floor, and our lives have been rather chaotic as a result. Hopefully more posts are coming soon.
03 January 2013
Deep Thoughts by Nico
Nico came up to me yesterday and very thoughtfully asked, "If you take a picture of a mirage, is it there?"
08 November 2012
more.
They said it would be very windy with some rain, but instead it was very snowy with some wind.
The train home last night took four and a half hours, and I consider myself lucky - they shut down the whole system right after my train left the station, but let us go through to the end, eventually. I had to go to a different station, where my fam generously came to pick me up. Ellie and Nico used the waiting time productively.
The main thing is we still have power! Never take your electricity for granted!
30 October 2012
post-aftermath
Hello again! I'm borderline-ecstatic to report that our power is back on, and we are back to mostly normal. The little hard hats have done their work well.
My work building has been partially de-flooded and they are asking us to come in tomorrow. My actual office happens to be in the highest part of the building, so maybe my stuff is safe? Probably not. But I'll find out tomorrow. Ellie and Nico are still out of school, since many on LI still don't have power.
Overall we are so happy and relieved that the damage wasn't any worse for us. (It should be noted that Ellie and Nico were never all that worried. As several of us remember from our own childhoods, it's kind of a fun adventure for them.) Ami and I were well prepared for an extended outage, but it clearly would have become more difficult over several days. Plus we would have had to buy all the condiments in the fridge all over again. /r/firstworldproblems
From what we hear, there were some major impacts throughout the region. Still, it could have been far worse without some of the preparations that local leaders and individuals made. I think some credit has to go to leaders like Mayor Bloomberg and Govs Christie and Cuomo, whose teams planned well for this kind of event long ago. The storm could have hit even harder than it did, and they still would have had the ability to deal with it without anarchy setting in. Pretty impressive.
We also got lucky where we were, compared to the rest of Long Island and elsewhere. We are feeling pretty proud of ourselves for intentionally choosing a house on higher ground, but as jwad correctly points out, we also have to thank Fire Island for taking a big part of the hit for us.
I took a few pictures, but there really wasn't much of interest to see. Trees blowing hard in the wind. More trees blowing hard in the wind. Etc. Maybe if you're as interweb-savvy as James you've found some good pics, or you can check these out from the main Long Island paper. You can see just how fortunate we were to have little of interest to post. http://www.newsday.com/news/weather/long-island-destruction-from-sandy-1.4156975#1
Thanks to all for thinking of us...
My work building has been partially de-flooded and they are asking us to come in tomorrow. My actual office happens to be in the highest part of the building, so maybe my stuff is safe? Probably not. But I'll find out tomorrow. Ellie and Nico are still out of school, since many on LI still don't have power.
Overall we are so happy and relieved that the damage wasn't any worse for us. (It should be noted that Ellie and Nico were never all that worried. As several of us remember from our own childhoods, it's kind of a fun adventure for them.) Ami and I were well prepared for an extended outage, but it clearly would have become more difficult over several days. Plus we would have had to buy all the condiments in the fridge all over again. /r/firstworldproblems
From what we hear, there were some major impacts throughout the region. Still, it could have been far worse without some of the preparations that local leaders and individuals made. I think some credit has to go to leaders like Mayor Bloomberg and Govs Christie and Cuomo, whose teams planned well for this kind of event long ago. The storm could have hit even harder than it did, and they still would have had the ability to deal with it without anarchy setting in. Pretty impressive.
We also got lucky where we were, compared to the rest of Long Island and elsewhere. We are feeling pretty proud of ourselves for intentionally choosing a house on higher ground, but as jwad correctly points out, we also have to thank Fire Island for taking a big part of the hit for us.
I took a few pictures, but there really wasn't much of interest to see. Trees blowing hard in the wind. More trees blowing hard in the wind. Etc. Maybe if you're as interweb-savvy as James you've found some good pics, or you can check these out from the main Long Island paper. You can see just how fortunate we were to have little of interest to post. http://www.newsday.com/news/weather/long-island-destruction-from-sandy-1.4156975#1
Thanks to all for thinking of us...
aftermath
Hello to any who are interested - we rode out Sandy last night with no serious problems, and all is well for the time being. We have no power, but it seems nobody on Long Island does right now. Roads are shut down, my office is under 3' of water, and schools are closed until further notice, so we'll be hanging out here for the foreseeable future!
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