We had a pretty amazing snowstorm Sunday evening, including thunder and lightning which roused us from sleep a few times throughout the night. The amazing thunder crashes and flashes of light which lit up the sky made us hopeful for future snowstorms during an otherwise dreary season. Disappointingly, the next morning we learned that thunder snowstorms are rare and should not be expected in the future. Too bad because it was quite a show.
Although the thunder and lightning only lasted that first night the snow has continued on and off over the last two days and Dundee has seemingly shut down. One would think snow would be common in all of Scotland but apparently it's as rare in Dundee as it was in Seattle. Just a few inches on the ground have caused school closures, including Mike's university, businesses closing early if they were able to open at all and, something we thought isolated to Seattle, the abandoning of cars on the roadside.
Abandoning one's car has always seemed a bit drastic to us. Perhaps on a side street when near home but, both here and in Seattle, abandoning one's car on the motorway, where no easier walking route is apparent, seems to be common. After 11 years in Seattle and now our first winter in Dundee, this behaviour still proves perplexing to a couple from Salt Lake City, Utah where snow is used more for recreation than as an excuse to park one's car on the freeway.
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It certainly is amazing to see that the strange act of car abandoning is alive and well in Dundee.
Okay, so I read this, like, two days ago and seriously can't stop thinkging about it. Do they just walk to where they were going? Are there rides to pick them up? If they do just walk, how is that any better? I don't mean to be regionally or meteorologally insensitive, but wouldn't it be much more dangerous, cold, and well, stupid to just get out and walk on the freeway in a snowstorm?
Facinating.
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