I loved the "Little House On The Prairie" books when I was little and I always wondered what it would be like to really have lived through the long winter. All that snow! And blizzards too! I could never fathom what one was like! I never even saw snow til I was twelve and then it was a quick trip to the mountains and it was hardly that impressive.
Today is my fourteenth anniversary since coming to Ukraine and since then, I've seen a lot of snow. I've seen a lot of cold weather. I've been weather as cold as -30C. Kyiv had a pretty big snowfall last December and it was on the books as the biggest snowfall since 1930. I don't know any of the past historical data, but I can tell you that within the last two days, I've seen more snow at one time than I have ever seen in my entire life! It is literally pouring down. It let up today for a couple of hours today and just snowed lightly but it is back to the heavy stuff.
I went out for a walk and there's not a lot of activity on the streets except for the police who are out in force and shoveling the sidewalks. I appreciate that effort very much. It's one thing to crawl through the snow yourself and another to have to haul a heavy bag of groceries in it. I stocked up on some extra food so I will be hunkering down until the snow stops.
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