Since we’ve been having so much fun with snow and ice and sub-freezing weather, you’ll really appreciate these scenes from a couple decades ago: the blizzard of February 17, 2003.
These are scrapbook pages kindly donated by Edie and Roger Labaw, that show chilly views around their home on Columbia Avenue near Seminary Avenue.
The first page, “Blizzard of Feb 17, 2003,” shows scenes around the house.
There are huge snowdrifts, with the ground, buildings, and cars piled with snow.
The ruler shows 26 inches of accumulation.
The second page with three photos shows the beginning process of digging out:
Break out the snowblower, enjoy the view of accumulation along the sidewalk down Columbia Avenue, and then begin the process of hand-shoveling along the sidewalk.
The third page shows views in each direction along what looks like a partially-plowed Columbia Avenue – east to the stop sign at Princeton Avenue, and west down to the post office building.
(Note the “No Parking When Road Is Snow Covered” sign was being respected.)
The remaining photos show the amount of work still to be done, with snow drifts measuring up to 26 inches.
Thanks again to Edie and Roger Labaw for these photos organized in scrapbook pages.
For more cold views, see the some 100 snowy images around the Hopewell area in the Image Gallery, back to the 1910s.
Please contact us if you have other snowy – or other – materials to share.
More on Photos of Snowy Days in Hopewell
Posts
- Snowy Day in Hopewell in the Early 1900s – Broad & Greenwood
- Snowy Day in Hopewell in the 1910s at Blackwell & Railroad
- More Snow: The Blizzard of February 2003 – Columbia Ave.
- 1910s William Howe’s “Dixie Farm” in Pennington – Snowy views
- Dashing Through the Snow – Hopewell 1913 Photos – E. Broad & Louellen
- 1960s Hopewell Snowy Views – Downtown and around
- 1966 Snowy Aerials of Pennington and Hopewell
Images
- View ~100 snowy images in the Image Gallery
