{"id":96958,"date":"2026-01-26T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/96958\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:52:08","slug":"im-loving-it-easton-residents-embrace-the-snow-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/96958\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m loving it&#8217;: Easton residents embrace the snow | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8211; Residents in Northampton County felt the aftermath of sleet and freezing rain from the massive snowstorm that slammed the region and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, this is a blast,&#8221; said Mikus Matiss, a longtime resident of Easton.<\/p>\n<p>Snowblowers were dusted off and snowplows worked overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Footprints, pawprints and snowballs were left behind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to build a big snowman in the circle,&#8221; said Matiss.<\/p>\n<p>             <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/northampton-county\/easton-area\/crayola-in-easton-to-close-monday-due-to-weather\/article_6b445f88-e9f8-4aa2-9a8e-1c77c2ed4534.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Crayola in Easton to close Monday due to weather\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>            Crayola in Easton to close Monday due to weather<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Residents in the heart of the city of Easton made the most of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if anybody sees that, that&#8217;s me. I did that,&#8221; said Matiss.<\/p>\n<p>Strolling around Centre Square, Matiss said he&#8217;s turning frigid into fun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I jumped head first into a snow thing earlier,&#8221; said Matiss.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it runs in the family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re Canadian. We&#8217;re born for this,&#8221; said Tija Matiss, also a longtime resident of Easton.<\/p>\n<p>The brother and sister said the city has been left with the perfect amount of snow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anything more, we might be inside,&#8221; said Tija.<\/p>\n<p>Resident Dan Maas joins the duo for some fresh air.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is my second walk of the day. I was out earlier for like two hours, went down to the river. Check that out. It doesn&#8217;t snow this much, I figure, enjoy it a little bit,&#8221; said Maas, who&#8217;s lived in Easton nearly two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, sunny South Carolina native Brooklynn said that no amount of snow will stop her from her favorite pick-me-up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting coffee,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will you trudge through the snow to get coffee?&#8221; asked 69 News Reporter Cierra Genelle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; said Brooklynn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why is that?&#8221; asked Genelle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know. I just love it so much,&#8221; Brooklynn said.<\/p>\n<p>She said she&#8217;s only lived in Easton for a few months.<\/p>\n<p>Will one of the largest storms our region has seen have her traveling back down south?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m loving it. I know a lot of people are, like, tired of it and ready to get the snowplows out and have it all be cleaned up, but I&#8217;m loving it,&#8221; said Brooklynn.<\/p>\n<p>Easton officials said the city remains in a snow emergency until Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>People are urged to stay off the roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. &#8211; Residents in Northampton County felt the aftermath of sleet and freezing rain from the massive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290,805,1133],"class_list":["post-96958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area","tag-lehighvalley","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}