Armenia transformed into winter wonderland
BY ERIC HRIN
STAFF WRITER
Published: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 5:22 AM EDT
ARMENIA TWP. — It seemed more like Christmas than Halloween Tuesday in Armenia Township.
But Santa Claus was nowhere to be found.
Just days before trick-or-treat time, an October snowstorm left Armenia Mountain covered in snow as trucks worked to clear the roads while flakes flew and the wind blew. Instead of appearing scary, a ghost decoration along Fallbrook Road looked as if it were protesting the winter landscape. Down below the mountain, it was a different world. Troy and the surrounding area — located at a lower elevation — were spared from the mess.
“We probably have about six inches by now,” Mallory Babcock, township secretary, said around 4 p.m. of the snow on the mountain. “Some limbs are down, but the roads have been plowed and cindered.”
She didn’t know of any accidents caused by the weather.
Kathy Cole, another Armenia Township resident, said the electric was blinking. Outside her home, she and granddaughter Isabelle Cummings made a snowman. She was enjoying the snow, which she described as wet and heavy.
“It’s just fun,” she said, noting the township is used to such weather. She remembered when there was a foot of snow on Halloween one year.
Babcock, meanwhile, was enjoying the early winter weather.
“I love all the seasons, each for its own type of beauty,” she said. “Not having to work (and thus not having to drive every day in it) I can relax and marvel at the beauty of the winter scene. It is so clean and pristine here on the mountain. We just hope it doesn’t turn to ice; that is bad news for everyone.”
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