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Tuesday, February 18, 2003
THE STORM OF THE CENTURY (SO FAR).
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It's really bugging me how the media keeps calling this "the blizzard of 2003". Like, if they just said, "the blizzard", I'd be all like "What blizzard? Do you mean the blizzard of '69?" I appreciate that they're trying to make it seem historic, and I'm sure that history will come to call it that next year. But to start calling it that now is the exact opposite of journalism. And, you know, there really could be another, even bigger blizzard before the year is out, in late February, early March, or November or December. This reminds me very much of the storm of late 1995, which the media dubbed "the storm of the century," only to see it dwarfed by a larger storm, just a few weeks later in early 1996.
Jill Z. and I hiked through for miles and miles all day yesterday. Sometime it was up to our knees or deeper, and the piles made by snow plows were as high as 20 feet, I reckon, near Rockefeller Center. The city and its inhabitants did a really good job of clearing the roads, but no matter how much they cleared, more snow just kept getting dumped on top of their efforts. But as soon as the snow stopped, it only took everybody a couple of hours to clear everything. Good job, NYC!
Jill's flight got snowed in, so I got to stay with her an extra day. Yay!
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