Yesterday was definitely a blizzard, just as the meteorologists predicted. The snow was blowing so hard it drifted a couple feet tall into the hallways between apartment buildings, and by the time it was over, it practically buried some of the parked cars.
Both photos:
1/125 sec., F4.5, ISO 200
18-55mm lens (45 mm), no flash fired
The media is calling it “Blizzard 2011,” and they claim it’s coming in three parts. Yesterday was the freezing rain, today is the massive amounts of snowfall and wind, and the next couple of days are the frigid temperatures. Here is an account of small ice accumulation from yesterday’s rain.
1/60 sec., F4.5, ISO 400
18-55mm lens (35 mm), no flash fired
Photographic Rhodes 