\u201cI see the snow as a gentle reminder of God\u2019s presence,\u201d Father Randy Nguyen of St. Patrick\u2019s Roman Catholic Church. \u201cThere\u2019s something about the stillness of winter that reveals beauty and peace in a unique way. It gives us an opportunity to slow down, reflect and become more aware of the quiet ways God touches our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt reminds me of my childhood, when snow shoveling was a daily routine for me, starting in mid-December and ending in March,\u201d said Sergey Nevzorov who grew up in Orenburg, South Ural, Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually thought we were through the worst of winter with March so close to us,\u201d said Bay Ridge resident Marianne Fezza. \u201cThough we received more snow this time around than last one, I think we will deal with it better being that we won\u2019t have the cold spell that accompanied previously. I am one who enjoys looking at snow through a window so I will be staying in for a couple days and working on a puzzle.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was safe to put the shovel away, but here we go again,\u201d said Ramon D., who also lives in Bay Ridge. \u201cBetween the freezing cold and the snow storms, this has been the worst winter we\u2019ve had in a long time. At least we didn\u2019t lose power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI see the snow as a gentle reminder of God\u2019s presence,\u201d Father Randy Nguyen of St. Patrick\u2019s Roman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[31286,98,100,99,3242,18444,9,24,63,133,8993],"class_list":["post-143365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-blizzard","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-environment","tag-jaime-dejesus","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-weather","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}