NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (PIX11) -- Tuesday's winter storm meant transit delays, roadway hazards, and a power outage here or there across the region, but it was also a chance for kids from the age of 2 to 102 to get into the powder, and have a great time.
There was fun up and down the sledding hill behind Albert Leonard Middle School. It's what one parent called "the spot" for wintry fun and for making memories.
Vincent, a sixth grader on the hill with his brother and sister, gestured toward the girl as he talked about the memories being made on the slope.
"This is like the most she's ever seen," he said about the snowfall that his sister, Violet, was experiencing.
When asked if she was excited, she eagerly replied, "Yeah."
Tuesday saw the heaviest snowfall in New Rochelle and most of the Tri-state region in years. That resulted in some people having to shovel snow and telecommute.
For kids, however, as a sixth grader, Christian put it, "It's fun to play in."
He was on the sledding hill, but so were some grownups enjoying themselves in the snow, too.
Heather Hume is a physician whose practice closed because of the storm.
"My favorite thing," she said, "is being able to spend time with my kids because I also got a snow day. So we all get to spend time together."
In addition to sledding, there were plenty of other snowy activities, as Gabriel, a fifth grader, pointed out while digging out a pile of snow in his front yard.
He demonstrated how, with a snowball-making device, he was trying to design and build.
"Try to make it an igloo," he said.
He also used his snowball-maker for its intended purpose and had a full arsenal for a snowball fight with his brothers and father.
The fight was clearly a fraternal exercise, that Gabriel's dad, Ari Farkas, elaborated on as he put the finishing touches on a snowman in the front yard.
He'd heeded the advice of both weather and traffic experts and decided not to attempt to drive across the county and three boroughs to work in the winter storm.
Instead, he said, it ended up being a rare break.
"To come home and just hang out with your kids for the first time in a couple of years, it's just great. What could be better?"
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