Thursday, February 3, 2011  There's Snow Place Like Home  This
picture was taken in Hudson during the Great Blizzard of 1888.
That blizzard occurred in March, so it's unlikely that any more
snow accumulated on top of this snow before spring arrived that
year. This winter, though, we've had snow on the ground since a
day after Christmas, and new snow keeps coming, piling onto the
snow already there, and the city is struggling under the burden
of it.    A snowstorm is a time when people should--and
usually do--pull together. It's always a nice neighborhood-
bonding ritual when folks head out with their shovels to
dig their cars out of the snow and repark them on the cleared
side of the street. Most people understand instinctively the
logic of parking on the side that the snowplows have already
cleared to allow the plows to clear the side where the cars had
been parked, but somehow the rules of officially declared snow
emergencies seem to confound everything and make citizens
feel confused, angry, and even victim