'Tis the Season

It won't be long, now...

I took this shot last December on Pilgrim Ave.

This morning it was only 20 degrees F. With that kind of morning temperature, it doesn't take hardly any precipitation at all to turn Worcester streets into skating rinks.

The National Weather Service is predicting snow flurries for tomorrow.

Someone made a comment to an earlier post (about the upcoming seasonal sidewalk snow removal issue), saying that Phil Palmieri never cleans the snow off the sidewalk in front of his house. Well, neither do I. Of course, I don't have any sidewalks abutting my property, so I can't get to be the test case. But maybe Phil will continue to neglect the sidewalk in front of his house this season (if what the commenter said is true), and the ACLU will take his Constitutional Test case against the city for involuntary servitude?...

Also of interest would be the whole issue of saving the space one has shoveled out on the street by putting a chair out there, or maybe some other worthless object. It's certainly a convention, a tradition, and an "everybody knows" sort of thing here in Worcester every winter: you just don't steal those parking spaces that somebody else worked so hard to create.

Once the snowfall has become heavy enough to not melt away for a while, we'll all be able to enjoy these things again, along with a significant percentage of our street surfaces being blocked by buried cars and piled up snow.