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It is so oddly quiet here! Usually there are the sounds and people talk-yelling as they walk around the area; so far we heard one vehicle and one emergency siren. The plowed streets seem to be 6-8 inches or so. Last night we started our blizzard by sipping a few in The Brewer's Art, which got packed. Walking back we passed the park where local art students were making sculptures of people and fun shapes on the park benches - the snowball and snowman factor on this snow, at least last night, was fantastic. Oh this is nice.

Janna is watching Inuyasha on Hulu (final act)

So far the snow is only up to the tops of hubcaps, not tires. I can't believe we're going to go from this to Jamaican beaches in less than a week! Score!

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Oh timely email
Your Upcoming Hilton HHonors Stay... in friggin Jamaica!

Ok so we were lazy and productive. Slept in, confirmed her work was closed. Went down to Donna's and got many too many cups o' joe, overtipped for coffee but tipped based on "thank you for coming out here in the snow and giving us hot coffee" for the barista. We wandered up to Grand Central, wandered through Eddie's market which still had tons of food, and came down to the disappointment that Kyro's was closed. Less snowball possibility with this powdery stuff.

On getting home we shoveled the steps together before she went in and I started shoveling - I had covered about half the front from the stairs to the alley when I heard an ambulance. I watched it...and saw it get stuck trying to turn onto the barely plowed street. About ten people headed out to help him out, shovels in hand - it was kind of neat, like the entire neighborhood suddenly appeared and pounced on them. After some failed attempts (we kept shoveling them out and then he'd just skid sideway into another snow bank) we all pushed while he drove - and succeeded in sliding him back to the plowed street. Some dink had pulled their car out and gotten stuck in the intersection by the hospital, so the ambulance used our help to turn around and go the wrong way down a 1-way street to loop back around and reach the hospital. At one point he wouldn't move because they were doing something delicate in the back with their patient. It was really cool the way everyone came together to help someone in trouble.

After that I (having ditched my coat entirely as if I kept working enough that I was panting I didn't feel the cold, and wearing a hat Janna loaned me for my monkey ears) shoveled from the stairs the other way to the hotel (which was also cleared) and then shoveled out HALF my car. HALF because I am not about to clear the way to the road only to have the hard heavy wet snow plowed back into my way and freeze overnight. Around then Janna came out and said it was time to get my cold, wet, dumb ass back inside. I offered to do her car but she wants the snow on top of her car in case the snow-laden branch hanging over it crashes down.