I'm Dreaming Of A White... Halloween?!

The BBC really weren't kidding when they announced that a blizzard was due to strike the east coast which would dump up to 10 inches of snow upon us. Nope. They really weren't kidding.

Within the space of about 2 hours the level of snow went from this...

 to this...

crazy huh?! I feel it is appropriate to mention that I am in fact smiling in both of these photos which is a great feat considering how much I dislike snow. I know that statement is shocking to many but, come on people, it's frozen water falling from the sky! FROZEN WATER! What is there to like!?

I would also like to tell you of my near death experience because of the aforementioned frozen water: I know on the BBC it's reporting that power outages (HA how American do I sound?!) are likely and this is due to a number of reasons. Firstly, America's power cables are all above ground and so any trees which fall down in the 40mph winds are likely to strike one. Secondly, the trees are more likely to fall because it's unseasonable early for there to be this much snow and so many trees still have their leaves. The snow combined with the leaves equals really, really heavy weight which the trees can't carry and so fall over or snap or bend or all of the above.

Now it is because of these heavily burdened trees that I almost died... well ish... Rachel and I were casually walking back from the bus stop admiring the snow and marvelling at our amazing snow coats and boots. We were about to cross a road when we heard loud cracks and, looking up, we saw that the tree across the road was practically at a right angle until... SNAP. It cracked and came plunging down to the ground. We ran for our lives... no I'm kidding we were completely out of range but if it had happened ten seconds later, we might not have been! It was a large branch and it was completely blocking the road so we, obviously, got really excited about the possibility of pressing one of the emergency buttons that are situated every 100 metres or so around campus. Sadly  Luckily a UCONN snow clearing man was just up the road and was able to radio through to warn about the blockage so we did not have to run to the nearest emergency button - typically we were bang in the middle of two, sods law. 

So that was today's excitement.