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rain and snow
It's been raining lightly all day, in the way that makes everything grey and wet and slick and shiny, and sometime during the past thirty-six hours all of the trees, which had turned a little bit but were still mostly holding out, exploded into color. It's the best combination ever, and I just keep staring out the window at it.
Of course, most of the leaves will have fallen in about three days. This is my fourth autumn in Philadelphia, but after growing up at higher latitudes, I still find it odd, how much later the leaves change (like, a whole month) and how much shorter the transition from green to bare.
But then, winters here are sunnier. Which is nice for my seasonal affective disorder tendencies.
I do miss snow. I should probably say I miss Massachusetts and New Hampshire snow, because the lake effect snow of my hometown is way more snow than any sane person would ever enjoy. I really do miss people who know how to drive in snow, though, and the kind of hyper-efficient snow-removal systems that exist by necessity in lake effect snow belts. Here, if five inches of snow are even *predicted* to fall overnight, every school closes the night before. Whereas growing up, a foot or more could fall overnight, and so long as it wasn't coming down too heavily in the morning, we'd still have school. At most, we might get a two-hour delay - that was their big work-around to make sure everyone got plowed out but school could still be held. We were always allotted five snow days, but we'd have used them up by January otherwise.
But two hour delays were still cool. It meant classes were only about twenty-five minutes long, which was never enough time to get any real work done, and everyone would already be kind of hyper, so mostly there was a lot of goofing off.
Anyway. Snow. I would like some.
Of course, most of the leaves will have fallen in about three days. This is my fourth autumn in Philadelphia, but after growing up at higher latitudes, I still find it odd, how much later the leaves change (like, a whole month) and how much shorter the transition from green to bare.
But then, winters here are sunnier. Which is nice for my seasonal affective disorder tendencies.
I do miss snow. I should probably say I miss Massachusetts and New Hampshire snow, because the lake effect snow of my hometown is way more snow than any sane person would ever enjoy. I really do miss people who know how to drive in snow, though, and the kind of hyper-efficient snow-removal systems that exist by necessity in lake effect snow belts. Here, if five inches of snow are even *predicted* to fall overnight, every school closes the night before. Whereas growing up, a foot or more could fall overnight, and so long as it wasn't coming down too heavily in the morning, we'd still have school. At most, we might get a two-hour delay - that was their big work-around to make sure everyone got plowed out but school could still be held. We were always allotted five snow days, but we'd have used them up by January otherwise.
But two hour delays were still cool. It meant classes were only about twenty-five minutes long, which was never enough time to get any real work done, and everyone would already be kind of hyper, so mostly there was a lot of goofing off.
Anyway. Snow. I would like some.
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When the first snow falls, I will go outside, catch flakes in my mittened hands, and psychically beam the joy of first-fallen snow directly to you. :)
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Also - SPN THURSDAY!
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And: holy freaking Supernatural, Batman. That absolutely rocked. I've posted a recaplet for "Fresh Blood" and a recap for "Red Sky" on my LJ (http://whiteotter.livejournal.com/224791.html), if you're up for some light reading. ;)
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Growing up in a place where it only snows once every few years meant that the forecast-panic you mention is magnified 10-fold. If there's a chance of any snow at all in the forecast, everyone goes batshit and raids the grocery stores, and if a flake actually does fall, school is out.
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I notice you got the text changed in your journal. Was it what I thought it was, or were you able to fix it on your own?
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And after the truly preposterous amount of snow that fell last winter, I'm rooting for as mild a winter as it is possible for CNY to get without throwing the whole hemisphere into a tizzy. :D