Planetary Verbosity

That’s the thing. We don’t know where to put it all. What am I talking about? You mean you haven’t been watching the news lately?

Snow.

Yeah, we have a lot of it…a lot more than we’re used to having, that’s for sure! We got around 20″ of the white stuff on February 5-6 and followed it up with another 12″ on February 9-10. That’s close to three feet of snow, folks…and strong winds during the second storm meant lots of problems with drifting.

So what in the world are we going to do with all of this? Can we ship it to Vancouver for the Olympics since they seem to have a problem producing snow right about now?

With our snowblowers, we really didn’t have much of a problem getting dug out here. I called off work on Wednesday and Thursday (they closed early both days anyway), and we went up to dig out the homestead on Thursday – after also having dug out the previous Sunday.

As if that’s not enough, there is more snow forecast for tomorrow! Really, they’re calling for another 6 inches or so. Um. Has anyone seen spring?

I was at least able to get a few photos of the aftermath of these two storms. I would have more from the homestead, but it’s nearly impossible to trudge through snow that is up to my thighs. Trust me, I tried. Made it halfway between the house and the barn before turning around and retracing the same footprints/holes back to the house.

Anyway, here are a few photos. Some of these may look familiar to you if you saw me post them on Facebook.

First, a few from after the first storm…

This is what the Jeep looks like when it’s partially buried in nearly two feet of snow. Dave drove it right out of there with little problem.

Parked down at the end of our street:

Up at the homestead, we had the benefit of having the Gravely with the 48″ snowblower. Now this is the way to do it!

Making a path from the shed to the road. There was “only” about 18″ of snow by the time we got up there to clear it out. (This is still just after the first storm.)

The barn and mountains on February 7, after the first storm:

After the second storm, we found ourselves with lots more snow, no place to put it, and killer icicles. (“Those icicles have been known to kill people!” – Ralphie Parker’s mom.) This group of icicles stretched from our second floor roof to our porch roof…really. These developed like stalactites over the course of the day until they finally connected with the porch roof.

They don’t look quite so menacing from the middle of the street:

But they looked a bit more vicious up close and personal:

Yikes!

Here’s the sidewalk on February 11 – sort of…

Several people had been keeping up with the snow on the sidewalk this time, so it doesn’t look like there’s much there…but check out the piles on either side.

There was one creature that got to stay all warm and cozy inside while we were trying to find somewhere to put all of the snow. Lucy didn’t seem to mind all of the white stuff at all…here she is on February 10.

So, how much more will we get tomorrow? Anyone want to buy some snow?