Snowfall Again In New York; Beacon's Internet Is Not Having It
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It’s snowing again in Beacon, and the local Internet is not having it. A Little Beacon Blog didn’t even feel like opening up the screen door to get a photo. Most vendors at the Beacon Farmer’s Market called out Sunday morning as light sleet fell intermittently, not wanting to chance the return home should more precipitation have arrived. Lines at the cashier at Key Food at 10:30am were winding back into the isles; not with a panic vibe, but people were getting what people were getting.
New York’s Governor Hochul declared a State of Emergency for Dutchess and surrounding counties. Dutchess County banned all non-essential road travel beginning Sunday evening. Beacon City School’s called for a school closure for Monday, and kids began planning their sleepover nights.
The flower shop Flora’s response to the snow on Sunday.
The City Of Beacon robo-called everyone to remind the public not to park on any street when over 2” of snow falls so that plows can get through. Both Beacon’s Highway and Water Departments were out by at least 11pm plowing, and then again in the early hours, as snow continued to fall as predicted.
By sunrise, the City of Beacon robo-called again to let the public know that Dutchess County had extended the weather travel ban to 4pm Monday, that Town Hall and the Recreation Center would be closed, and there would be no bus service.
As the people of Beacon rolled out of bed, they began posting their response feelings to Instagram. The flower shop Flora had posted last evening, nearly throwing in the towel on the winter retail season.
“The Melody of Melting” poem by Katie Hellmuth.
When the first dumping of two feet of snow started melting, A Little Beacon Blog wrote a poem about what it sounded like, called “The Melody Of Melting.” It was an encouraging time. Nothing like the resulting dehydrated snow that has been slowly evaporating under gray skies in below freezing temperatures, resembling leftover Dairy Queen ice-cream cake that mysteriously does not melt.
The performers at Broadway in Beacon compiled a winter slideshow sourced from the IG account Beacon Living, showing how we all feel as we watch the snow fall again.
Snow reflections from Nickeya Smith.
Nickeya Smith opened her window in the suburbs and asked herself why. Then recommended the remake of The Burbs on Peacock.
Other house-bound people expressed it in the form of cats, and talk-show hosts canceling themselves.
Another reader posted a twinkling picture of her shed, followed by a quietly snowy poem by Mary Oliver about an owl, and then reported in that she’d measured 8” so far in her Beacon backyard.
Meanwhile, kissing videos and interviews with Wuthering Heights stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are flooding the Instagram, so we have plenty to watch.
