Falling Snow, Falling Ice
We have had a strange weather week. Monday was actually quite nice, but the storm
that paralyzed a lot of the northeast impacted Philadelphia as well. Monday afternoon the school districts
declared they would not be open on Tuesday.
That meant that HSP would be closed and city officials were encouraging
businesses to close as well. Most did. The snow (some predicted 1 foot) was supposed
to fall overnight but early in the morning there was maybe 2 inches on the
ground around us. I could look out our
windows and see that there was essentially no traffic. It was nice for a change because we didn’t
hear much in the way of emergency vehicles which we hear often normally.
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Tuesday morning without any vehicles or workers on the building next door |
By Wednesday morning we were ready to get back to work and
went downstairs to catch the shuttle bus to take us to work. We learned that there would not be a bus at
all that day. Surprised but undaunted we
made sure we were dressed warmly enough and proceeded to walk to work. It was scary!
This was not snow, it was ice!
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The courtyard at our building the morning after the snow. |
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Our building did a great job clearing the way to the street directly in front |
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We were so happy so see the cleared sidewalks even if we had to leap the ice piles to get to them! |
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We saw huge chunks of ice falling from these buildings. Walking is hazardous!! |
With the ordinance that buildings/businesses clean their
walkways within 3 hours of the end of a storm, most of the walkways were clear,
but the problem was getting across the street.
We had to climb over mounds of snow/ice to get from the cleared street
to the cleared walkways. It was
challenging, to walk the mile to work, especially for us old people.
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This isn't a great photo but it shows a little bit of what the downtown streets were like. |
Scanner problems and fix!
Wednesday morning my prayer was that somehow my scanner
would be fixed today or that I would know what to do to be able to work. I was feeling very unproductive. Sitting in front of the computer and seeing
the error message that has become so familiar to me over the past week I
realized that the IP address showing on the popup was the wrong number.
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Even thought the program "crashes" it doesn't lose the images I have already scanned although they leave the screen until I can get the computer up again. I really didn't want to scan 510 pages again!!! |
The thought occurred
to me that I had seen the experts moving around remotely on the screen and I
had seen them change the IP address so I thought I could do that too. I did and the scanner came right up! I had been led to a backdoor that would work
until a permanent fix could be found. I
was so grateful for this answer to my prayer.
I have been able to do the same fix multiple times as the “crashes”
continue to happen, but I can get right back to work. Friday was a banner day
for me as I completed almost 3,000 images.
I look forward to doing much more than that in the days to come.
Photos this week:
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This is the window sill in the lunch room. I thought it was hilarious to see these cactus growing in the window with the snowtopped roof in the background. |
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Don't you love the sculpture? They are talking about moving "the clothespin" somewhere else. It is right across the street from City Hall right now. |
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The temple as we walked home last Friday. |
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Elders Moench and Mpalomby and recent convert Daniel. We ate a Panera's on our way to the Saturday meeting of Stake Conference of the Valley Forge Stake. |
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Driving down Broad Street on our way home after the Saturday night. Hello William Penn! |
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This woman became my new best friend. She saw us with the missionaries at Panera's on Saturday night an paid for all our meals. That is the first time in all my missions that someone has paid for my food because I was a missionary. Usually we get to take the young missionaries. Elizabeth Laty was so excited to do it because their son is serving in Utah right now. He has been out 5 months. This photo is with her girls on Sunday morning. Wonderful young women!! |
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