Quite The Storm Yesterday

Seems so very strange to wake up on a Sunday morning in October, glance out your window and view a winter wonderland staring back at you. Yesterday's Nor'easter packed quite the wallop, our small hamlet seeing close on to a foot of the white stuff on us, snow shovels and big trucks with large plows making an early appearance here in Sullivan County. Lets hope this early winter storm is not a sign of what old man winter has in store for us as we look ahead...if it is, going to be a very long, cold, desolate winter in these parts.

The Farmers Almanac is forecasting “clime and punishment,” a season of unusually cold and stormy weather. For some parts of the country, that means a frigid climate; while for others, it will mean lots of rain and snow. Judging the winter yet to come on yesterday's snow storm, would say "Clime and Punishment is a good descriptor of things to come. Meanwhile, the vivid blue sky outside, the fall color still remaining coupled with the snow makes this a great day to grab your camera and go out for a walk.

Winter Reminder...Please Move Vehicles Off Street For Our Snow Removal Crew

OMG...not even the end of October, and we are about to get hit by a MAJOR Nor'easter with the potential for significant accumulation of the white stuff...that would be snow, as in the possibility of somewhere between 7-12 inches of it falling on our hamlet starting later today. As I sing, "I'm dreaming of a White Halloween" wanted to put up a reminder for everyone.

As we know, we have great snow removal here in Mountaindale, but our hard working crew needs our help...what we can do...just make sure we have our vehicles off the streets before the white stuff starts falling later today. That's it! There are plenty of places for our cars, and there is a nice parking area located just behind 62 Main Street that we can all use.

Spoke with Robert and Uccelli Restaurant will be open this evening for those not wanting to cook in the middle of our first snow storm...wishing here his pizza oven was already fired up and putting out pies as pizza and snow is sounding like a pretty good combination right now...any one have the makings for hot chocolate? I have a bag of mini marshmallows here.