{"id":6698,"date":"2007-02-14T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/syracuse-drift\/"},"modified":"2007-02-14T21:00:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T21:00:55","slug":"syracuse-drift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/syracuse-drift\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse Drift"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

We’ve had a snowier stretch of weather lately than any I can remember before,
\nhere in central NY or while growing up in central lower Michigan. Around
\ntwo o’clock this afternoon, I broke from grading WRT205 projects and laced up my
\nboots so I could shovel the yard. Really this only meant carving out
\nenough space for Y. to dododo his business. He seems to be just slightly
\nmore beagle than pug, which means he’s a sniffer. Cold temps and snow
\ndisorient him mightily, so the trips to the restyard are panicky and
\nvertiginous. He just whirls around, alarmed, until it no longer makes
\nsense to seek a guiding odor where there is none.<\/p>\n

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With a small parcel of yard shoveled, next I recruited Ph. to lend me a hand
\nwith the front walk and driveway. All preventive shoveling, considering
\nthat it was still snowing steadily while we cleared paths. We worked
\nnon-stop for an hour, pausing only long enough for me to reminisce about the
\nnice snowblower my dad used or to wonder aloud through five or six Fred Sanford-esque
\nclose calls. Damn sure can feel my heart pounding. Is that right? And the
\nbanks at the edges of the drive piled higher than the Palentine Hill. Happy snow-blitzed Lupercalia.<\/p>\n

We’ve been good about clearing the driveway in recent weeks. Might have
\nbeen just 18 inches or so when we worked it over this afternoon. And at
\nleast four or five inches have fallen since then. Granted, it’s nothing
\nlike the winterized souls are getting just north of us in Oswego and surrounding
\nareas. Over 100 inches in a week? I’m crying uncle and whining about
\nmy back with only a couple of feet of snow. I’ve never shoveled a
\nroof, nor would I have the snow fortitude to undertake such a thing even if it
\nmeans imminent collapse. Go on and cave in for all I care, I might say
\n(while on my cell phone to U-Haul). <\/p>\n

More drifts…<\/p>\n