It's only been a few days since I last posted! Aren't you impressed?
I bought a new camera. Did I tell you that already? My last one broke, and it was going to cost MORE to get it fixed than to just buy a newer (and better) one. Guess which option I chose? I Chose Awesome.
On Friday night, the end of the world started to occur here in Dublin. That's right.
It Snowed.
Dublin doesn't typically get ANY snow, much less 3-6 inches in November, much less 3-6 inches in November accompanied with thunder and lightening. It was epic. A group of us had returned from the pub late Friday night so find ourselves listening to the roll of thunder and flashes of light. And then it started to snow. The first thing we could think of was to run outside (bottle of wine in hand) and play in the snow. A snowball fight and pathetic snowman later, we went back inside and went off to bed.
Guess what happened next?! Saturday happened next. You see, Friday comes directly before Saturday. And you know what happened on Saturday? We got more snow. I was in City Centre at this time (the heart of Dublin) and things started shutting down.
Drivers couldn't handle the snow, the buses shut down and stopped running, half the taxi fleet abandoned good money, and hundreds of people were throwing snowballs, frantically hailing taxis, making snowmen, and dancing and singing. Sounds terrifying!
Actually it was pretty cool. What I learned though is that Dublin got a bit of snow last year as well (except that was in JANUARY), and they had gotten just a bit the year before (IN JANUARY), but they hadn't had snow for 20 years before that. The city is completely unprepared to handle snow in any amount, and they certainly don't have stockpiles of salt.
No snow on Sunday, so that was good. But guess what? Today is Monday, and we're getting more snow. Crazy, eh? 
