That should slow things down a bit for at least 6 hours after the snow ends because Pennsylvania has a dedicated fleet of large, fast snow plows that would clear the runways so planes can land and stop then zip the snow off the roads. Presto! Roads open again. The local Walmart should be open as usual as the parking lot is stripped of snow within a few hours after the snow stops falling..
“Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.” wrote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1863. Written as an elegy it reads to me as a calming set of words which is how I feel about wonderful snow. Here in Central Pennsylvania the winter landscape seems to get all cleaned up when it snows. White is, of course, the very color of purity, clarity and innocence and snow also captures the beauty of cleanliness which is why brides were it. What would happen if snow were all different colors? Suppose one field was red while another was green and a third blue and so on? It would be better than a rainbow that only covers a little bit of the sky. So while seeing white snow is beautiful we can, in our imagination, create a whole other world…
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