About a week ago, I posted the text from a Weather Service bulletin that predicted snow the following weekend. Well, that weekend has just passed, and the Weather Service got the basics of the warning exactly right, didn't they? Take this shot from a friend in Lake Oswego:
Last night was the 'preview night' for Peacock Lane. The plan was to close the street to traffic and create a special pedestrian mall. It was a great idea, and seemed to play out well. The snow on the street made it even MORE poignant to look at. But M-I-S-E-R-A-B-L-E to experience directly. I didn't see more than a couple dozen people on the entire street at any one time. For what should have been a crowded place with a constant flow of a couple hundred visitors every half hour of so, the cold took the attendance way down.
C and the kids took the dog for a walk to enjoy the closed street. They didn't go all the way to the end. It was too bitingly cold. Instead, we sat in the dining room, played Carcassone, and watched the lights from our warm and cozy dining table. R did a nice Boy Scout thing and took cocoa to the Lane staffers manning the barricades across the street from our house. That was a gesture that went over well.
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