Blizzard Nemo

I'm pretty excited to say that I have now survived a tornado, an earthquake, a hurricane, a flood, and a blizzard.  I went to a live volcano in Costa Rica, but it stopped erupting a few months before I got there.  Maybe I'll do tsunami next.

I woke up in the morning to find an interesting scene.

Snowmobiles! (haha)

Notice that during the night the sidewalks were salted and cleared, along with the streets.  I'm glad our tax dollars go somewhere.  NYC has pretty unbelievable taxes, but I'll admit that public services are pretty good.

I was really curious how these people got in their cars.  The plow pushed all the snow against the driver's door.  The answer: they don't.  Those cars stayed there a long time.  Even if you can get inside the car, you can't drive because of the snow all around the tires.  I don't recommend owning a car and driving it somewhere before a blizzard.

A few days later I was on campus, so I took some additional photos.

King Frosty?

An ice fort and some other admirers.

The "door"

Notice that I was facing the library in the first shot and that I was pretty far away.  The man saw me taking a picture and you notice that he is staring at me.  In the second picture, I walked to the other side of the fort to get a picture from the other direction.  He saw me taking a second picture and decided to walk his son into the middle of it.  They were not the builders.  Weird guy.

Six days afterwards in a rainstorm.  Luckily, he had an umbrella.