This first one is of the pile we created from the snow on our driveway. We ended up shoveling twice for this storm. We went out at about 3 pm and shoveled about 8 inches of snow. Then we went our again at about 8:30 pm and shoveled another 4 inches or so. It was incredible.
The second picture is of our backyard. We had to shovel out a small area for Meg to go to the bathroom in because it was too deep for her otherwise.
This is the front of the house and the pile in the front yard is the pile in the first picture. Compare it to our van. Isn't it high? It hurt to shovel that much snow into a pile that high.I thought I'd post some pictures of the 12 + inches of snow we got for my birthday last week. This passed weekend we had temperatures below zero with wind chills in the -30 to -40 degree range. There was a wind chill warning in effect from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon. Tomorrow we are expecting to get another 3 to 5 inches of snow. It's so hard to travel around on the roads right now. All the snow we had on my birthday had not been plowed off the roads before we got the arctic blast. That means that most of the side roads are now sheets of frozen slush. The city can't spread salt on them either because it's too cold for it to matter. Salt only brings the freezing temperature down to about 18 degrees. So with temps down below zero, the water and snow freeze dispite the salt. They have been putting down sand to try and provide some traction, but it's not the best. I really try to to go anywhere when the roads are like this. This winter has been so delightful! We also found out that we have to make up all four snow days that we've had so far. The school district doesn't build in snow days to their calendar. Does that make sense to anyone? We are in Wisconsin and they don't automatically count on having at least a few snow days? I think it's ridiculous!
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I talked to Donna on her birthday (the same day as Merrit's) and she said they have so much snow in Utah that the other day she was out shoveling her driveway and she looked over at her next door neighbor's (who was shoveling snow too), and Donna could see the snow flying, but she couldn't see her neighbor! LaRee says that where Reed works, they don't have any place to put the snow after they clear the parking lot, so they have to haul it out back into a field. That's what happens when you get all of those Mormons praying for an end to the drought. It's been really cold here too. When I went to exercise this morning the thermostat in my car said -1. It's mid winter break this week, so when it snow tonight, we don't have to worry about school tomorrow. I think we've about used up our snow days for this year.
They are piling the snow by the lake here. If you drive down by the lake you can't even see it in some areas because the snow piles are so high. There are mountains of snow in the parking lots of stores also. I'm sure they will have to start hauling the snow away if we get much more snow. I can't imagine that the stores will be able to keep piling it in their parking lots like they have been.
Wow, that snow is VERY high. I'm glad you survived! Today a couple counties north of us (still in TN and Arkansas) are having Winter Weather Advisorys. Isn't that funny? An advisory just in case they actually get snow? It made me laugh.
Watch out, Jana. If you get snow the whole city will shut down. It is funny except that you can't go out either because no one knows how to drive in snow and they'll hit you. My friend totaled her car in just over an inch of snow.
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