Growing up in New England I am use to snow at nearly any time of the year. Heck, New England gets so much snow that there is a saying, “there are only two seasons in New England; winter and road construction season (summer).” Every year there will be different amounts of snow but no storm ever compares to that first snow. The air gets crisp and when the first snowflake hits the ground you know that no matter the date winter has begun. Some year’s winter starts early and some years it starts late, some years there is a lot of snow some there is next to nothing, but you would be hard pressed to go an entire winter without any snow. This year looks like it will be an early year since they are getting snow while I type this. There is another saying that I remember while growing up, “You know that you’re in New England when you have to design your kids Halloween costume to fit over there snow suit.” It looks like that saying will be quite true for everyone in that region of the country this Halloween, heck it may be even true for the northern half of the Atlantic seaboard.
This afternoon surprised me, not because we got rain here in the greater D.C. area but because we got and are getting honest to God snow. Now I am sure that there has been snow this early in the past, but in my entire time living down here (which as of August has been five years) it has never snowed this early. When I was first told about the forecast for snow I suspected that the weather man would be wrong but to my surprise, and probably a surprise to a lot of people it did snow. This surprise is evident by the locals in ability to drive in the stuff which seems to be worse today than past winters, either because of the early snow of because they can’t drive well in any precipitation. Anyway, today has been a surprising start to winter, which if my experience in New England has taught me anything about, this will be a long one.
I wonder how all those occupy [insert city name here] people are doing?
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