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My Big Fat Wet Snowstorm

Buildings in Snow, originally uploaded by Melsky.

We had lots of wet snow today. It sticks to things differently than the type of snow we get earlier in the winter. It also takes longer to build up on the roads, making it easier to drive. Tonight we are supposed to get up to a foot of snow! We are also supposed to have high winds.

This house is not abandoned

This house is not abandoned, originally uploaded by Melsky.

This is a house on the southside of Syracuse with broken windows, boarded up windows, overgrown shrubbery, badly peeling paint, sagging balcony and general disrepair. It has a sign on it that says THIS HOUSE IS NOT ABANDONED people live here, do not break in and steal our stuff. I didn't really want to get close enough to take a photo of the sign though.

The house across the street is very well kept and extremely suburban looking, with siding and professional looking landscaping.

Syracuse is an odd place in that the run down areas are very close to the nice well kept areas, some times across the street!

It's very different than somewhere like California, where there is a much more gradual transition between neighborhood quality.

Cool old houses in the southside of Syracuse

These are two great brick houses in the Southside, which is not known for being a great area. But it has some great houses, like these two. On this street are houses that are boarded up and trashed too.