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This year, winter came early, with an endless week of snow and slush. The snowstorm last night was nice, though, a reminder of the calm that descends over the city in mid-winter, its noise muffled under a blanket of heavy snow. <\/p>\n

One year ago winter arrived not with snow but with verglas<\/i>. I remember very clearly on the evening of last December 1st, falling asleep after an exhausting day, only to wake up to a dark apartment and the eerie echo of freezing rain outside. It was the middle of rush hour and the power was out, so cars and buses crawled along Park Avenue as pedestrians navigated the treacherous sidewalk. <\/p>\n

I’ve always been fascinated by the way that weather changes our experience of the city. This is especially true for freezing rain, which encases it in an ethereal but potentially deadly beauty. Last year, I wandered, slightly in awe, through streets lined by frozen trees, their branches swaying in the wind and occasionally cracking, a bolt of lightning following quickly by the thunderous roar of branches crashing to the ground. <\/p>\n

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