braving the brooklyn blizzard
YES!

finally, a real deal blizzard landed on us. it's the second biggest single day snowfall ever in nyc.

tough.


here's a comparison of when it first started vs. the next morning.

the snow started on saturday night. a group of us decided that we had to get together and go out and play.

vince and i walked from Greenpoint to meet up with adam and min in Williamsburg.

along the way, the snow got heavier.


once the group was assembled, it was time to bar hop and throw snowballs.



after a few hours of this, we were caked in frozen snow.

min looked a lot like Han Solo (when he was hanging around on Hoth) i thought.

see?

for some reason, the entire time that we were outside, vince wasn't wearing any gloves. apparently he doesn't own any.

this only seemed to encourage him though.

we walked to and from so many bars.

it was epic.


after a while, we ended up in front of this bar called Barcade. as we were about to walk in, adam and vince started a giant snowball fight with a bunch of totally random strangers.

some of it was caught on tape.

before you watch, please realize that this was at the end of a long, long night. i don't normally laugh like this. i hope.



this next picture of vince pretty much sums up the snowball throwing bloodlust that he had at that point:

after this shot was taken, it was time to call it a night before we all ended up in jail.


the next morning, new york woke up to a lot of snow.

and i had to shovel my sidewalk.

and some guy across the street had to shovel his car out with a wooden board.


when all was said and done, i had created a mountain of shoveled snow.

behold Mount Sasso!

after my duty was complete, it was time to head out into the newly wintery-white Brooklyn.

but first, vince and i met up with eric for a beer and some lunch.


play time:




the only bad part about all of this snow was that it wasn't sticky enough to make snowmen.

after a bit, we went to Teddy's for some hot chocolate and irish coffees....


...and then home.

every car was buried.


this morning, the city-folk started the chore of digging out.

suckas!!

it's supposed to be in the 50's in two days.
here comes the slush.