We got slammed with another blizzard, and are buried. We’ll be stuck a day or two.
From my studio window. Normally, you’d be able to see the large thicket of wood which shelters animals and birds.
From my studio window, towards the street.
Front deck. I don’t wanna go out there. Birds are giving me pitiable looks. Okay, okay.
Opening the front door. Oh man. Not fun.
Sinking in snow up to your upper thighs – not fun. Sigh.
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We got only about 1 mm of snow, and thats melted already again. Only mud and cloudy weather this winter for us it seems.
I am not a fan of mud season, but right now, I’d take it.
The second to last is the one that makes most clear the problem with the snow. And it looks like your front door isn’t even close to the ground. It’s hugely annoying when you can’t even close the door once you have opened it without some shoveling.
No snow here, just temperatures above the freezing point, rain and wind. Today was sunny. Even the sea is relatively warm, 3 degrees Celcius when I went swimming in the Christmas Eve (although there is still some ice in the more closed bays and straits).
Someone stole the snow-blower from the community hall.
Snow-blowers don’t work on this kinda snow.
Holy shit. And here we are, with the track all set up and the rink frame prepared for snow and minuses… Stay warm, keep yerselves and the beasties and the dinosaurs fed!
Bismarck got hit, too. The glass sliding door looks like some snowy ant farm. The cats still think they want to go out, until they hit the snow wall.
Mark @ 7:
I know that one! Still waiting for the wind to die down here. I think I hear someone plowing…
rq:
Always!
I admit that the snow blower is useless on anything that is not a flat surface
but
my snow blower will turn 40cm of three-day-wind-blown into fluff on the garden.
…
It can be a bit of an adventure to get the thing running…
and to have the stamina …
Wow. Don’t open the front door again. Not until Spring. Seriously, can you tunnel out through the basement or something?
Raucous Indignation:
Pfffft, that would be be way more digging! Got the front door cleared today, but Rick went into Bismarck today, and said it’s a bloody mess -- only the main roads are cleared, everywhere else, snow mountains, and several stores were shut down due to weather.
You, as in the weather, has made the Granuiad, The weather outside remains frightful for storm-weary northern Plains states.