Monday, February 11, 2013

Cleared roads

no public transport this morning, and we were lazy anyways..... ..... later this morning the MBTA announced that they would resume a little bit of service from 2 this afternoon. however.... and i quote their message directly; "Unless necessary, customers are encouraged to stay home and use service sparingly." that little sentence just made me laugh all day. use it sparingly? are they checking whether you really need to take the subway or its just for fun...? ah well, as said, we were lazy, and just cleaned our apartment a bit, sorted stuff out, etc, and then went for another snow-walk. as you can see here, the main roads are clear again (after hours and hours of work), but for pedestrians that wasnt the case everywhere. here there was some sort of path to the right, but there was still enough snow left to make  for quite a tiring walk. at some places, the sidewalk wasnt cleared at all and we had to walk on the streets. not much fun, cars just sped by without even looking at us..... on  the news i saw that 1also in boston the main roads are mostly clear again, but the side streets, where people actually live and have parked their car, arent, so they still cant go anywhere.
we just wanted to have a walk on the cemetery but, although it was being plowed, turned out to be closed, and so we just went home again.... 

7 comments:

Pierre BOYER said...

I just come back from french Apls and your picture reminds me the roads I met...
:-)
Best regards from Paris,

Pierre

biebkriebels said...

That is pretty much snow. Yes, cars have to ride first and walking people have to find their own way.

Andy said...

It's the same thing here. Today the weather has changed and it is now raining. Go figure... Murphy's Law.

Stefan Jansson said...

We are expecting two decimetres of snow later today. Hope you enjoyed the walk.

Tim said...

i like this picture, very nice shading on the snow

Kay said...

I guess walkers are supposed to be out "sparingly," too.

Jack said...

You wanted snow, you got it!