For three days before leaving for Miami on January 30th, Adelaide and I shoveled all the snow and ice from our driveway in two long strips down each side.
The next morning, in Miami, I got a flurry of texts from my dad that the snow had started again and was already bad enough that he was worried the pet sitter wasn’t going to be able to get to my house. He decided to brave driving over there in it to rescue Teddy and bring him to my parents’ house.
That top left photo is what the driveway looked like after just an hour or so of snow, which then continued for the rest of the day and into the night. I was concerned about that snow sitting to harden and turn to ice while I was gone, so my dad found a guy with some kind of crawler to dig it out (top right). Because he’s awesome.
After one snow day (1/26) Adelaide’s school instituted remote learning — and continued doing that for two full weeks. That included a fake-out last week where they were only supposed to have a two-hour delay . . . and then we got more wintry mix overnight and outright snow the next morning. (See the video and my slightly snowy beast.) Yesterday was Adelaide’s first in-person school day since January 23 and she could NOT stop talking about her day when I picked her up.
This sort of accumulation is very unusual here, as were the low temperatures that kept it around.
Today, you ask?
In the beginning of February, after two weeks of an average temperature of around 30F?
60F and sunny.
🎶cliiiiiiiimaaaaaaate chaaaaaange🎶
