Since this has been a “normal” Vermont winter, for the most part, I haven’t bothered documenting much. We’ve just had the usual accumulating snow for the last two months, with no big snow storms, and the typical piles of snow line the streets and the driveway.
The cold hasn’t been… Read More ➤
Vermont gets snow—that’s just a fact of life. The storms are far less intense and disruptive than many I experienced in Delaware, but measurable snow on May 9? I definitely don’t… Read More ➤
Vermont has been extra Vermonty this winter. The snow started in October, with the first measurable snow in November. We’ve been under snow pretty much ever since, and we’re at least two feet… Read More ➤
Yes, Waterbury can be a bit busier than this, especially during/after events or when the state employees leave the state complex. But for the most part, this is the hustle and bustle that I see on a daily basis. Add a little snow, and there’s something soothing about the slow heartbeat of traffic signals, spiriting folks here and there with … Read More ➤
So this winter seems a bit closer to how I always imagined Vermont. Snow started before Thanksgiving and has been on the ground ever since. It’s always been a little here, a little there, without any big snowstorms to speak of, though we came close this past week.
Thursday night through Friday we finally got a pretty big one, totaling about 14 to 15 inches here in Waterbury. Sure, we occasionally got bigger snowstorms in Delaware—I recall one storm that dropped 23 inches in two days. But here in Vermont, the snow lingers and becomes… Read More ➤
Winter was pretty bad this year. The snow lingered for a bit, then we hit a few days of 60 degrees pretty early on. Now it’s April and we’ve hit 80 a few times already, despite some cool days below Read More ➤
So we got about 12 to 14 inches in our neighborhood (below), less in a few, more in some. Why, why, why couldn’t this have come… Read More ➤
WHY!? Gees. If it’s going to snow, why not during the week so I can miss a day or two of work/classes. Grrrr. Damn Mother Nature! Vacca Foeda… Read More ➤
