The Big Snow, 2003

It started snowing Saturday, 15 February. and it kept snowing. During most of Sunday, it was illegal to be out on the roads unless you were in an emergency. These pictures were taken after 3 pm on Thursday. The small pictures are clickable to larger images.

This is the parking lot of a business supply store outside Eastpoint Mall. parking lot

parking lot

parking lot

parking lot

parking lot

parking lot

parking lot


There's a car under there, somewhere, honest!

On the road.


Entering the Middlesex Shopping Center. The low building is the library, and behind it is the tallest building in the town of Essex. It's senior co-op apartments.


Shopping center parking lot.


Shopping center parking lot.


Shopping center parking lot. Snowball stand (heh) and Wendy's.


Shopping center parking lot. Two cop cars behind a huge pile of snow.


Secondary road on the way home. Two lanes, but no shoveled sidewalks.

My neighborhood. There is one lane plowed, and a number of parking spaces that the residents dug out.


There's a car under the pile in the center, too.


To the left of my front door.


To the right of my front door. Just to show that the kids didn't even play in it, it was so deep.

My front door.


Rudolph the red-nosed minivan, and my roommate, in the field jacket and sheepskin hat.

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And more pictures! These are from the Tuesday a week after the snowfall, and the Wednesday following. After the snow.