Green Christmas

Well,

Who would have thunk it. This morning's paper revealed the grim news, no more snow for us. In fact, temperatures for this weekend are predicted to be 6 degrees on saturday, and 8 degrees on sunday!

That will certainly make a dent in the snow piles that have been pushed to the edge of the roads and it's likely that we'll have a lovely green christmas, just like all you kiwis out there. I might have to go and buy a BBQ.

So last weekend we had about 30cm of snow which buried roads, gardens and cars.
The next day when it stopped the city workers had the laborious job of clearing the streets, main streets first pushing the mass of snow off the road, and into huge 5 foot piles of the stuff on the side of the road.
4 lane streets became 2 lanes and 2 half lanes.
Nice wide footpaths became single track, and walking is like walking through wet flour.
Transitioning from the road to the footpath involves jumping over a pile of snow, or finding an area where it's clear.
Now things have melted a bit; wet feet are surely the outcome.

This weekend we go shopping for BOOTS!