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Beautiful Snow — But Forget Snow Angels
It's too windy to play outside
I interrupt my regular column to write to you from the snow fortress that is my home. Snow drifts are two- and three-feet high around our doors and windows. And worse is the wind, which is 40 to 50 mph in West Orange. Everyone up the eastern seaboard got hit but, this morning, CNN reported that New Jersey was "the bulls-eye" of the storm and that Newark reported 20 inches of snowfall. A snow day it is, then. We live up on a ridge, unsheltered from the wind, except for a thin line of trees a few yards from our building that separate our street from the ridge above I-280 below. We can see I-280 from our upstairs window. Every so often last night and this morning, my husband and I would take a look. There is nothing so eerie as staring at …
