The big parking lots in the retail shopping districts
hereabouts
have still got what I call
"parking-lot icebergs" in them.

The difference is that,
a month or two ago,
these things dominated parking lots great and small,
and they were towering things, high above the roofs of parked cars.

Now they have dwindled to a much lower height,
there are fewer of them,
and they are covered in dirt.
And there are more open parking spaces
than there are blocked-by-snow-and-ice parking spaces.