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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 09:50am on 2005-02-28

Woke up to discover that the snow predicted to start 6-ish was not yet reaching the ground in Baltimore. Decided to poke at email and the online user manual for a wireless bridge before crawling out of the warmth of my bed, and just now noticed that we've started getting a few flakes. I'm watching them lazily rise past my window now.

"Wait, did he just say it's snowing up?"

Okay, so it's just a quirk of the wind when it blows into the space between the houses -- the back half of the house is narrower than the front by the width of a window, allowing light into the office, dining room, kitchen, and this bedroom, and each house is a mirror image of the ones on either side -- but it amuses me whenever I look out the bedroom window and see snowflakes swooping upward.

It's as though it's de-snowing, a fun image even if the illusion only works from this angle.

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posted by [identity profile] jmthane.livejournal.com at 02:57pm on 2005-02-28
To quote Lucy:

"The snow goes up, just like the grass grows. Then the wind swirls it all around, so it *looks* like it's coming down, but it actually comes up from the ground."
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 03:43pm on 2005-02-28
I like that, on multiple levels, but now my brain is stuck trying to design a planet with the right conditions for hoarfrost to form in huge quantities and get blown about without snow falling from the sky.

For the rest of the day, I'm going to be thinking, "snow grows ... hmm."
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posted by [identity profile] lilkender.livejournal.com at 04:18pm on 2005-02-28
I just started reading Larry Niven's The Integral Trees, where people live in a gravity-free zone around a gas planet, or something like that. Haven't gotten far enough to read about any weather other than wind.

That happens outside my office, too. More often it goes sideways up G street.
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posted by [identity profile] jmthane.livejournal.com at 04:19pm on 2005-02-28
Oh, dear... and all because I quoted from the musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"...

*hee*
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