Monday, February 11, 2008

Winter Update

It's 15 degrees F outside. There are also big wind gusts so the wind chill is below zero. The sky is clear though so that's a plus. Yesterday was really odd, it would be fine one minute and the next it would be whiteout conditions. Quick squalls that were intense.

I went out with the Sunday Night Film Club and looked out the window and saw things were fine. Five minutes later when I left the house I could barely see to the end of the (now clear) driveway. It was slow going driving into Kendall Square and there were some slippery spots but it wasn't too bad. After the movie we walked to Tommy Doyles. There's what's best described as a long alleyway between some buildings we went through and it was nasty. Really fierce cold wind right at our faces. Someone commented how they didn't remember anything about the movie before that walk.

When driving home the squalls had stopped but it was still cold and there was ice around. About a block before I turned on my street there was a tree blowing in the wind. I saw it from about a block away and it was blowing around much more than the other trees around it. It really looked like a Transformer (aka giant robot) on the side of the road.

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