Blizzard Nemo 2013

Nemo, the blizzard that brought us nearly 37" of snow has gone but it's effects are still taking its tolls on New Haven.  The storm began Friday morning and didn't stop until Saturday morning but it hit us hard.  I think we all thought that we would get a decent amount of snow but none of us would have thought that it was as much as we really did get!  Waking up Saturday morning, I was amazed because I just never saw that much snow in my life before.  We were lucky that the Chartwells workers at our school were able to provide us with brunch and dinner every day.  They actually slept here for four nights before they were even able to get home!  That is dedication and they kept a smile on their face the whole time.  I think everyone here truly appreciates their efforts considering they didn't have a bed to sleep in.  Walking down to brunch and dinner the first few days were horrible!  Nothing was plowed yet so we had to walk through all of the snow.  At one point, the snow was up to my waist!  The next day, my co-RA and I decided that we should go and attempt to shovel our cars out- bad idea.  We got about half way down to where our cars were parked and couldn't do it anymore.  The snow at that point was up to our waist and was in our boots so we "ran" back to our building to thaw out.  When we finally did reach our cars the next day, we shoveled a bit around it but we weren't able to get out because the parking lot wasn't plowed yet.  We were finally able to get out Monday but some roads are still bad.  Dixwell Avenue, which is a main street in Hamden, is only one lane, causing excessive traffic.  It always seems like people forget how to drive or abide by traffic laws when things like this occur so I'm trying to stay off the road for as long as I have too!  We didn't have it as bad as other people did because we still had food, heat, power, and water.  The wind was very strong as well.  The wind made the snow drifts even harder to deal with and would push the snow into huge piles!  I felt like you could never accurately tell how high the snow really was because the wind kept blowing it around.  It's like the world stopped for a little while and we didn't know how to deal with it:  schools got closed, work places closed.  After a few days I got restless and my residents did as well.  I'm just glad it's over and life can get back to normal!
Here are some pictures of what Nemo caused:

This one made me laugh :)