Winter Storm
 Photo Album: November Snow Storms |
I have lived most of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I have not lived in a place where it snows in the winter. I am finding the snow in the Faroe Islands beautiful and fascinating, so you will be seeing snow through the eyes of someone who hasn’t seen much of it before.
Tuesday afternoon a winter storm arrived and covered everything with snow. I was supposed to go to Gøta for choir rehearsal, but I wasn’t ready to learn to drive in the snow at night, even though my car does have snow tires. Fortunately, I was able to get a ride. Not only do I need to learn to drive in the snow, it looks like I will need to learn to walk in the snow. I was wearing my sturdy hiking boots, but crossing an icy street was worthy of a scene from a Three Stooges movie.
During the night it rained a bit, so by morning most of the streets were clear of snow, but it is still cold, and icy in places.
The days are definitely getting shorter. Today there were 6 hours 59 minutes between sunrise and sunset.
November 16th, 2005 at 9:32 pm
What is the elevation of the mountains that surround you? It is interesting that the sun reflecting off the snow gives you more light in your kitchen, but it makes sense. The mountains probably shield you from a lot of wind too.
November 17th, 2005 at 7:15 am
Hope your language skills are coming on well? Do different parts of the Islands have different accents? The ð letter in Fuglafjørður looks like the phoneme for the sound which in Welsh we use the letters ‘dd’ to signify the sound ‘th’ which is in ‘this’ and ‘weather’ - is this the case with Faroese?
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