January 22, 2006

It snowed

It snowed on Friday the 20th. It was about a week too late for the Capitol Square Sprints that happened the previous weekend. It was in the upper 30s or maybe low 40s and everything was brown except for the street around the Capitol building where the organizers of this skiing event laid down snow that they brought from a nearby ski resort! I was on "the square" walking home the night before watching people put barracades up along long the street. I asked someone working where they were going to get the snow? They pointed down the block to a dump truck and a Bobcat that was removing the snow and packing it down! Then Monday morning when I went to work all the snow was gone again, except for a few chunks lying next to the curb. I think it was a bit decadent of the promoters to bring snow up from Tyrol Basin!

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