Snow

I never thought I would miss much about Boston (aside from friends, and really I'd probably like them all more if they didn't live in Boston) and I can't say that I really do, however the snow that struck Avignon last week made me miss the efficiency with which Boston deals with snow. The first day was cool, Marc didn't have to go to work (neither did anyone else), snowmen were built, playing was done, it was pretty, etc. After that first day the snow hardened into ice and none of it was cleared. For FIVE days. Sidewalks were pretty impossible to navigate, none of the buses ran, the mail didn't come, meetings were canceled, à cause de la neige. Finally on thursday (it snowed last friday) there was a lone city employee shoveling one of the sidewalks near our house.