Damn, more snow here!

March 23, 2015 • 6:40 am

Imagine my surprise when, not having looked out the window, I checked the weather report on my laptop to find this:

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HEAVY snow!

And indeed, it’s snowing—and heavily indeed. It’s predicted to taper off this afternoon, but there’s already an accumulation, and I was frosted like a cake when I arrived at work. This is a surprise: we were supposed to have no snow today, and only a light dusting yesterday, which never materialized.

Here’s the view on my walk to work; you can see Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous Robie House to the right, one of the highlights of my twice-daily perambulation:

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But geez, when will the winter ever end?? And does it mean that I’m old when I talk about the weather?

38 thoughts on “Damn, more snow here!”

      1. oh yes! Well thank goodness we are not Hindoos as per that previous post…!

        But where is ‘…meanwhile in Dobrzyn’?

  3. 7F this morning in upstate NY, but thankfully no snow; answer to your questions: 1. soon; 2. yes.

    1. 17F and early afternoon here in central NY, wonderful bright sun. After days of constant melt, we’re down to about a foot of snow left on the ground.

      1. Bright sunshiny here in the Kawarthas.
        -22C when I got up this morning but it still looks like spring will show up any month now.

    1. And the Chicago Theological Seminary, which owned the Robie House at one point, had planned to demolish it, prompting Frank Lloyd Wright to remark, “It all goes to show the danger of entrusting anything spiritual to the clergy.”

    1. Never mind a condo in Boca. After “Faith vs Fact” he will be able to afford 12 rooms on the coast at Palm Beach for as low as $27 million.

  6. Get off my lawn!!! (If you can find it under that snow).

    I am still in south Florida until mid May. 68° F right now at 8 AM, going to 90° F.

  7. The Robie House! The beating heart of the Prairie Style. Lucky you!

    In architecture school we were told that letter carriers new to Hyde Park often had difficulty finding the front door of the Robie House. I’m sure every academic major has this: snarky stories people share about the greats in the field so we know they weren’t perfect.

    As if many of us will ever be as good at anything as FLW was at architecture.

    And so here’s another reason to scorn the church: the Robie House was acquired by the Chicago Theological Seminary in the mid-1920’s, and they tried twice to have it demolished. Mies (Luwig Mies van der Rohe, the last dean of the Bauhaus and then the first of the IIT School of Architecture, of “less is more” fame) was instrumental in saving the house the first time. The second time, FLW convinced a wealthy developer to purchase the house, which he did and subsequently donated it to the University of Chicago.

  8. Yep, it’s been a long cold winter here as well. The temp almost got down to freezing at one point and there was a frost a couple of mornings. I even saw a couple of snow flakes drifting around (didn’t settle thankfully). I hate being cold!

    🙂

  9. Awoke to a text from my wife “enjoying the snow?” She has sunshine and 22C today – I have a car that was washed Saturday and is now under a couple of inches of rapidly falling white stuff and the prospect of a trudge to work. At least it’s not cold enough that the wind will try to strip the skin off my face on the way…..Time to get the boots out…..again.

  10. Yeah, we woke to snow here in Minneapolis area as well. Blech! And it was in the upper 60s last week! Oh well, it will melt shortly.

  11. Complaining about the weather doesn’t make you old but it does make you sound Canadian!

  12. Someday, take a photo of the midway? And, is Foster Hall still on the corner opposite the midway? We used to sit on the fire escape to sunbathe – until it was declared illegal!

  14. Argh- please keep the snow down there. Bloody colc in Toronto,but no snow – as yet. Took a tour of Robie house last time we were in Chicago – in the snow…

  17. We still have deep snow and very cold temperatures here in Maine. The last issue of Harper’s had a depressing article about the rapidly melting Greenland Ice Sheet. Is global weather changing so that the Arctic is warmer, but Maine is colder?

    1. Climate change pushes that polar vertex thing further south and that is why all of our winters on the east coast suck extra bad!

  20. I have to say…and it’s not to be contrary at all…especially since I can’t remember what it’s like to live for months on end in snow – I just have childhood memories of a magical wintry wonderland that filled my days…so basically …I’m jealous. Just this week I really feel like my body is dying around me in this place…in the Sac area (CA)…it’s hot, dry desert…flat..congested. At least the real desert has an arid, empty beauty. Not this sprawling shopping mall. I need to get out of this crap…for me and my family. I can barely breathe this week…every few steps I’m out of breath…yeah..not in the greatest shape but I I’ve NEVER been like this. I wish I could have brisk, cold air on my face and in my lungs, I wish I could feel the snow crunch under my feet. But like I said, I know you’ve endured plenty of snow and are probably ready for a change of pace!

    1. I have a cousin in Sac.

      The cold was so bad this year that when you got a lungful of -20C air, you coughed. It is very bad to breath that cold air.

  21. Austin, Tx 77F right now. The sun is about 2′ deep out in the parking lot. (Don’t take this as an encouragement to move here, though).

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