Crazy weather week.

The weather this week in Blacksburg has been fun. We had snow days Monday and Tuesday thanks to a snow storm, which I happily spent working at home on the sofa with my duvet. Good days! And as I have had a horrible cold all week, a few days in were good. (They didn't get rid of the cold but at least I was curled up with lots of hot drinks.)

Wednesday I went into work and Cait and I decided to go for our usual walk at lunch despite the snow. It was actually quite fun and not as cold as I expected. (I think I am getting used to those temperatures.)

A Robeson Hall snowman

Some people don't think it is cold at all.

Campus is very pretty

It stopped snowing by the time I got home and I even saw some blue sky. (I was very excited!)

Home

Some people just didn't move their cars

The snow was no where near as much as in Boston, but still it was enough for me. So pretty but a pain. 

Thursday, things really got interesting. The temperature plummeted. (Thursday night it was even colder, going down to -4F which is -20C and that is without wind chill.) All the temperatures below are in Fahrenheit. And the wind is the killer! -20F is -29C. The very air hurts. These temperatures I am not happy with. They are ridiculous! 

Insanity!

Friday night I went out for dinner and drinks with a few people from work. This doesn't happen often so we obviously wait until the coldest time of the year to do it! Anyway, it meant I had to walk home. Blacksburg is great at clearing the roads. The sidewalks are a different story. Some they clear. Some they just dump all the snow from the road on to them., especially when you are trying to cross a road. Most are awkward to get over, and require treks through knee high snow and ice. (I am so out of shape - that was seriously hard work!) Some however ... well there was just no way I was going  over that! In the photo below, I am standing up straight next to the snow. Behind me is the snow on the sidewalk. Needless to say I walk the long way around this one!

Not impressed.

Thankfully half way back, I managed to get the bus. They are only once an hour so it was a small miracle. I barely made it and ended up jumping on through the back door, which they really don't like you doing, but I begged and was shivering so the lovely bus driver let me stay on. It was 9F (-13C) and it just too cold! I have crossed "polar explorer' of my list of future job options.
And my little birds are back on my balcony. How they are surviving is a mystery. I am keeping food and unfrozen water out for them. Poor little things.

Little visitors.

It is once again snowing and doesn't seem to want to stop. Though it is forecast for freezing rain later. Oh the joy! So another weekend in with my duvet again I think. Can't say that's a bad thing! :-)