Feb. 18th, 2014 10:15 pm
The big thaw
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muckefuckThe water coming in through the window was a steady trickle when I left the house this morning. (The GWO later told me he'd been emptying the mixing bowl underneath it several times an hour.) After today's warm-up, I expected to come home to a gusher. Instead, there was...nothing? Apparently the flow ceased sometime around midday. Not that that gave ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monshu any rest. He went outside and chopped up ten buckets of ice from the deck above so we can actually use our porch without being drenched in ice-cold water.
Yesterday's snowfall made the contrasts even more dramatic. Then it was all champ and churn; today it was dirty water, slush, and bare pavements. Tomorrow I expect to see exposed earth. Not that I want to; already the crumbling snowbanks are revealing oodles of trash I was happy to leave buried. I suspect just the amount of pet waste alone is going to be pretty horrifying. My winter coat is too heavy for the weather, but it's easier to keep donning it than to think about what to wear instead and risk underdressing.
monshu any rest. He went outside and chopped up ten buckets of ice from the deck above so we can actually use our porch without being drenched in ice-cold water.Yesterday's snowfall made the contrasts even more dramatic. Then it was all champ and churn; today it was dirty water, slush, and bare pavements. Tomorrow I expect to see exposed earth. Not that I want to; already the crumbling snowbanks are revealing oodles of trash I was happy to leave buried. I suspect just the amount of pet waste alone is going to be pretty horrifying. My winter coat is too heavy for the weather, but it's easier to keep donning it than to think about what to wear instead and risk underdressing.