Near our apartment the snow is nearly all gone but here in the center of Dnepr where our office is there is still a lot of snow. The good news is the paths are often shoveled and clear so not as much ice as there was and it is sunny and melting today so maybe later it will be even easier to walk when we go home.
Yesterday was a different story. Power lines down and sagging, tram not running up and down the hill, roads closed and marshrutkas trying to find new routes to follow and passengers trying to find where the marshrutkas were. It was a mess. Here are a few pictures I took with my phone that show how bad it was. There are still many tree branches down. President Sullivan said he had to climb over a large tree branch to get down his road.
This is heading toward our office – you can see there is much more snow than near our apartment and many branches are down. Also, not much of a path to walk on.
Our office from across the street. You can see the power lines down. We didn’t know if we would have power. We did and were grateful as it is warmer at work than at home.
See the build up of snow outside our office window on the balcony.
You can see how the trees are weighed down with snow.
More trees and snow.
The street in front of our office – usually very busy with lots of traffic but now closed with trees and power lines down.
So we are all hoping that Spring is done joking with us and that the forecast will be for warm weather – anything about freezing will be warm at this point but we are hoping for 70s – that would be like a heat wave.