A winter storm has hit both coasts of the US, bringing rain, snow, and generally unpleasant weather to much of the nation. If you find yourself trapped inside by the weather, here are some organizing tasks you can accomplish. (I published a similar list in a February 2010 post called snowed in?.)
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The calendar says it’s spring, but the view out the window certainly doesn’t. St. Louis was hit with a record-making snow storm yesterday. The official amount, measured at the airport, was 12.4 inches. It measured at least that much in my neighborhood. The previous record for snowfall in one day was set exactly 101 years ago, on March 24, 1912, according to this article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. (A year ago today, it was 76 degrees.)
Here in St. Louis, we have just a little snow on the ground, with a little more expected this afternoon. Those of you on the east coast, however, are pretty much snowed in. I just communicated via email with a friend in Maryland who said they got two feet of snow and were out of power for 36 hours. Yikes.
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It’s hot and humid here in St. Louis. Yesterday’s high was like 98 with a heat index of 112, according to the local paper. We have central air, but our a/c is having a hard time keeping up with this heat.
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A winter storm hit St. Louis yesterday. It wasn’t as big as the media hype warned us it would be, naturally. There’s maybe an inch or two of snow at my house. But under that snow is freezing rain and beneath that is sleet. So it’s slick. And pretty:
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