In my last post I showed you how the beginning of the March storm looked. Last night it snowed more. When we first looked out we thought it was not much but we had already decided to stay in today. As we watched the soap opera of vehicles outside we realized it is a lot of snow and like the earlier parts of the storm it is very drifted due to high winds – another good reason to stay in. For now it is raining but there are a lot of people out and about. Today is Saturday but since March 8th is a holiday – it is Women’s Day and many people will have a four day weekend because of it – many of those people have to work today. The children’s day care downstairs is open which it usually is not on Saturday and there are many bringing their children in for the day.
So here are the pictures I took from our apartment windows down onto Polia Street.
Looking down into the parking lot of the passport center across Polia from our apartment there are some men moving snow and actually using shovels – often here they just use a broom – that is if the move the snow at all.
Here is a close up and you might be able to see that there is quite a bit of drifted snow in the middle pile.
The quit and left a pile in the middle – they had added to it as they shoveled so it is higher than it was and the cars have to drive around it since there are fences keeping them from driving in or out any other way.
This is looking down on the day care parking so you can see there are still places with virtually no snow.
For now it is raining and later more snow and ice. We hope it will clear as they predict so we don’t have to walk in it to Church tomorrow and that the ice is not too bad. Yesterday I hit a patch of ice on our way to the tram and landed on my rear end. It was so sweet to see people stop to help me up – mostly just my ego was bruised. You have to respect the ice here – it hides to catch you off guard if you are not careful.
Spring is coming soon for everyone but here they say it started on March 1st – what a spring!