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I hear cars spinning their tires, trying to get moving again after stopping for the traffic light. It sounds as though some are having real problems with that. I also hear voices shouting to each other, and go to the window to see what's going on ...

There are children playing with snow shovels. One is scooping random swaths of the sidewalk across the street (yes, the snow did eventually start sticking there) and flinging shovelfuls of snow willy-nilly, while the other two are -- more entertaingly than effectively -- shovelling the middle of the street. At one point they were facing each other with their shovels slightly offset, looking almost like a strange twist on a hockey face-off.

I went out to clear my sidewalk earlier, hoping to keep it from gathering too many turn-to-ice footprints (it's that type of snow here), but it's still snowing too heavily, and my work was covered nearly as quickly as I cleared it. Too early.