weather can be so rich!

So the weather has been violent in the extreme across the border. And here is a photo  (courtesy of Beth Child and the New York Times)  of a  woman walking through the East Village which is where we will be living as of next week...if we can get there!

And here follows an extract from a report by Robert D. McFadden in the New York Times  27th December

The headline was "Huge Blizzard Halts Travelers On East Coast" and seemed to be a straight forward report of the severe conditions...until this paragraph when the cold snap must have hit his head........"Throughout the afternoon the storm grew into an adventure. The snow came down in great sweeping curtains, drifting over parked cars and park benches to be sculpted into aerodynamic shapes.  Everywhere the winds whispered and moaned in their secret Ice Age language.  The blizzard spawned lightning flashes and thunder. Yet the sounds of the city were strangely  muffled and distant....."

Pretty good ,eh?  Better than the usual dry scientific facts.  I was with Mr Mcfadden, ready to rip off my parka  and thermals and romp naked in the stinging drifts as ice maidens and satyrs whipped my blueing skin with birch fronds and bade me fly on the  wings of the ice storm into the arms of the Snow Queen herself!!!!!!