{"id":35191,"date":"2026-02-07T18:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35191"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:49:20","slug":"mountains-of-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35191","title":{"rendered":"Mountains of Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is almost impossible to convey the size of this mound of piled snow at a local shopping center.
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It’s two thirds of the distance between Barnes & Noble and Five Below (which was behind me), and it covers the parking spaces that run along the parking lot divider\/sidewalk that run between them. And, in places, it even covers the driving aisle between the covered parking spaces and the next row. (Which made navigating a bit difficult.) It’s an absolute mountain of ice and snow.<\/p>\n

I expect there will still be remnants of this come Memorial Day. Piles of ice from the 2010 double blizzard lingered to June in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

I did not buy anything at Barnes & Noble. Or Five Below. I considered buying the Rubik’s Cube Connected X<\/a> at Five Below, but do I really need<\/i> a Bluetooth-enabled Rubik’s Cube with an app? No, my friends, I do not.<\/p>\n

(I may change my mind within a week and get one just to see what it’s like.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is almost impossible to convey the size of this mound of piled snow at a local shopping center. It’s two thirds of the distance between Barnes & Noble and Five Below (which was behind me), and it covers the parking spaces that run along the parking lot divider\/sidewalk that run between them. And, inContinue reading “Mountains of Ice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[728],"class_list":["post-35191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-winter","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}