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You remember that part in Superman II, after Clark has lost all his powers but has to trek back on foot across the snow to the Fortress of Solitude so he can reverse the process and fight the three supervillains?
That’s sort of what the trip to Penn Station was like this morning.
But I made it, and caught the train, too. Now I can fight General Zod with my newly restored superpowers. Would you care to step outside?
My army of twelve windowsill snowminions has utterly melted to nothing:
This was taken a day after the Great Snowstorm of February, 2003.
Sci-Fi is showing Battlestar Galactica, which I haven’t seen since I was a kid.
Or as some like to call it, Mormons in Space. More details here, including the fact that Glen A. Larson was with the LDS. Me, I’m not worried that the background nuances of a late-70’s science fiction could possibly inculcate cultic theology into me, any more than Battlefield Earth could turn me into a Scientologist.
Wow, I never realized when I was a kid that “Starbuck” was also “The Face” on A-Team. Heh.
Photos of the aftermath of the Feb 2003 snowstorm, from an afternoon hiking around the harbor and downtown Baltimore.
More photos and links to photos from Dean Mc-K, Amy Mc-K, Brenunda, and Mike Lee, including Coldmarble’s closeup of the B&O Railroad Museum roof collapse — a great historical loss, that one.
Well, the worst of the snowstorm has passed, and I’ve just finished shovelling a narrow little valley from the door to the plowed street, cutting through a knee-deep — sometimes waist-deep — sea of soft, fluffy snow. I don’t work with my hands nearly enough anymore, and it feels good — really good, to look out the window and see that clear path winding across the buried sidewalk to the road below. I guess Calvin’s (of Calvin and Hobbes fame) dad was right: shovelling snow does build character.
Amtrak and MARC train delays across the board after the Feb 2003 snowstorm.
Photo taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP SD.
A manhole peeks out from beneath a drift after the President’s Day snowstorm of Feb 2003.
Photo taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP SD.
I tried trekking through blowing wind and knee-high snow to the grocery. Wow, it’s pretty extreme out there. And the grocery was closed, too. On the bright side, I have a veritable army of eight nine ten mini-snowmen eleven mighty snowminions guarding my windowsill. (see melt.mov)
Cooking for Losers. That’s even better than The Reluctant Gourmet.
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