Snow Day!

It's 20.5 degrees at 6:30.

GARBAGE DAY

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SCHOOL'S CLOSED!

No surprise, looking at the amount of snow on my back steps.



It's been a long time since I've woken up to THIS.

I think it's what's usually referred to as a touch of

"good old-fashioned Winter!"



It's nearly up to the two-foot mark on my "snow stake."



The picnic table is buried ..........



................ and the snow is exactly 19" deep on a part of my little front porch that was bare, yesterday.

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Here is the list of closings from the WIBX radio 950:

Adirondack CLOSED
ARC Oneida-Lewis CLOSED
Brookfield CLOSED
Camden CLOSED
Canastota CLOSED
Children’s Corner in Rome
Chittennango CLOSED
Clinton CLOSED
Colgate University OPEN AT 11
Dolgeville CLOSED
Edmeston CLOSED
Frankfort-Schyler CLOSED
Fulton-Montgomery Comm. College OPEN AT 12
Gospel Light Christian Academy CLOSED
Hamilton Central CLOSED
Hamilton College
HCCC OPEN AT 11
Herkimer CLOSED
Herkimer County BOCES CLOSED
Holland Patent CLOSED
Holy Cross in Oneida CLOSED
Ilion CLOSED
Little Falls CLOSED
Lowville Academy
Madison CLOSED
Madison Oneida BOCES (Verona) CLOSED
Messiah Academy
Mohawk CLOSED
Mohawk Valley Christian Academy CLOSED
Mohawk Valley Montesorri
Morrisville State College OPEN AT 11
Morrisville-Eaton
Mount Markham CLOSED
MVCC Rome
MVCC Utica
New Hartford CLOSED
New York Mills CLOSED
Notre Dame CLOSED
Oneida City CLOSED
Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES CLOSED
Oppenheim-Ephratah CLOSED
Oriskany CLOSED
Owen D. Young CLOSED
Piseco CLOSED
Poland CLOSED
Raquette Lake
Remsen CLOSED
Richfield Springs CLOSED
Rome Parochial CLOSED
Rome Public CLOSED
Sauquoit Valley CLOSED
Sherburne-Earlville CLOSED
South Lewis CLOSED
Stockbridge Valley CLOSED
SUNY IT
SUNY Morrisville
Town of Webb 2 HR DELAY
Unadilla Valley
Utica College OPEN AT 10
Utica Parochial CLOSED
Utica Public CLOSED
Utica School of Commerce DAY CLASSES CANCELLED
Vernon-Verona-Sherrill CLOSED
Waterville CLOSED
West Canada Valley CLOSED
Westmoreland CLOSED
Whitesboro CLOSED

ST LUKES MEALS ON WHEEL CANCELLED
ST ELIZABETH SCHOOL OF RADIOLOGY CLOSED
NEW HARTFORD SENIOR CENTER CLOSED
SNOW EMERGENCY – ILION

It's very gusty and still snowing, I believe.

From WKTV: "*Winter storm warning in effect for all of Central New York*

Heavy snow continues to fall this morning, with poor visibility and difficult driving conditions. An additional 2-4" will fall between 5-9 AM. Total snowfall for many areas in Central New York will exceed a foot by later this morning. A return to sunshine by this afternoon, with temperatures staying a few degrees below freezing. Sunshine returns in force on Tuesday followed by unsettled but warmer conditions by mid week. High temperatures will climb into the 40s later in the week.

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I remember this bit of a poem by Emerson;

"Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow; and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight; the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river and the heaven,
And veils the farm-house at the garden's end.
The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed
In a tumultuous privacy of storm."

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The snow held off long enough for the Heart Run & Walk in Utica, and - once again - Coach Roger's Team was there! Jennifer Neff sent me these pictures and wrote,

"Coach Roger's Team walked in the Heart Walk and Run on behalf of my dad, Roger Nichols, who suffered heart attacks and underwent open heart surgery in January, 2009. This year we had 26 people walking on his team including three of his four grandchildren."

Roger, with his grandchildren, Jacob, Ali and Paige.

(Thank you, Jenn!)

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THIS WEEK

Shrove Tuesday
ANNUAL PANCAKE SUPPER
at
GRACE CHURCH PARISH HALL
(Babbott Avenue Entrance)
5 - 7 pm

Tuesday, March 8
$5 per person, $10 per family

Menu includes:

pancakes with maple syrup,
sausage links,
scrambled eggs,
applesauce,
gingerbread with whipped cream,
coffee, tea, Hawaiian punch
and milk.

For the Benefit of the
WATERVILLE AREA AMBULANCE

(Alas. Once again, there is no Pancake Race scheduled.)

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AT THE LIBRARY

Knit 2gether * Every Tuesday @ 7pm
For all of the want to be knitters, beginners, advanced or anywhere in between.
This is a weekly meeting where you can come relax, chat and knit with fellow knitters.

Kids Club * Every Wednesday @ 3:15pm
Ages 5-11 | Drop In *2nd-6th can be dropped off
March 9th - Happy Birthday Dr.Suess! Celebrate all of his crazy characters with cake, games and silliness!

SPECIAL EVENT!

Johnston School of Irish Dance * Friday, March 11th @ 6pm
Bring the whole family to see a wonderful Irish dance performance from the girls of the Johnston School of Irish Dance. Come early to get good seats!
Kids will also be able to make an Irish craft before the performance.

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NEXT WEEK

St. Patrick's Day Dinner

C.J. Fulmer Post #92 American Legion, Waterville.

SATURDAY, MARCH 19TH

4:30 - 7:30 P.M.

Corned Beef, Cabbage, and all the Fixin's!

$9.00 per person.
Route 20, Waterville. 841-4987

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I think it was last Thursday that the sun shone and the state DOT was cleaning up what everyone hoped were the last of the snowbanks near the underpass .......

............ and a bright Spring wreath appeared on Mrs. Lloyd's Maison Street door.

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On Saturday, the temperature rose to the high 40s, and as snow melted, water rose, everywhere.

Mary Ann Younes sent me several pictures, yesterday, of "Big Creek," that runs behind our homes on Buell Avenue. In the first, the creek is the peaceful little brook about which Kate Loftus Welch wrote:

"Willona Creek goes singing still
North from the town of Waterville,
With sweeps and curves through meadows fine,
Fringed with fern and columbine."

Yesterday, however, the stream roared like a river .........

............... and a wet snow began to fall, again, in the afternoon.

At the "dugway," south of Clinton, the Oriskany had overrun its banks.


The low spot on Sally Road had turned into a lake .....


.......... the Sangerfield River was threatening to overflow onto Loomis Road .........

and the Route 12 underpass, south of Waterville, was flooding, too.

The Sangerfield plow was on the road, early, and has no doubt been at work all night!

I gather, from listening to the scanner, that there are portions of several roads closed.

This, surely, will be a good day for those who work in New Hartford and Utica to take the "scenic route" through Clinton!

It's going to be a while before I can get "out," so - if any blog readers who are "up" in the village can send me snow-scene photos, I'll be glad to post them!


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FOR THE RECORD

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Yes: I went to the grocery store yesterday!

I am scheduled to have cataract surgery at Faxton on Wednesday morning. 'Til then, I think that I'll have plenty of time to read Snowbound, by John Greenleaf Whittier!

Have a good day, everyone!