Thursday Afternoon

The wind has been blowing for most of the day, making it hard to tell whether or not it's snowing some more or just relocating yesterday's snowfall! Out in the countryside the "whiteouts" were bad; even in the village snow swirled.

Route 12 remained closed, and a portion of Skyline Drive
- between Roberts Road and Bogusville Hill Road -
was closed, as well.

In the village, snowbanks grow higher and higher,

twelve-foot lamp posts seem shorter and shorter

and snowplows work harder and harder trying to
keep roads, sidewalks and fire hydrants cleared.

A few things may be lost, for a while:
Gary Allen's mailbox, for one ....






and the "specials" sign in front
of Roc's, for another!








There are many people who are still trying to shovel their way out from their driveways - and not having any fun at all -

but even the chore of climbing back to the
top of the hill doesn't dull the enthusiasm of
these youngsters, enjoying one of the best
things about Winter.

A six-month-old malamute, perched on
an Elmwood snowbank watching the children,
seemed to beg his mistress,
"Can I go and play, too?"

(If malamutes are usually trained as sled dogs,
couldn't they be trained to pull plastic sliding
devices and passengers UP a hill, too?)

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Forecasters call for a few inches of "lake effect," tonight,
but nothing in the extreme.