Dam, dam, dam

Almost foreseeable after the weekend storm: ice dams and icicles!













So I went out and knocked them down, and raked the roof for good measure

Snow! We had Snow!

On Friday the forecasters were warning of one of the biggest storms ever for February - 12+ inches by the time the storm was done, starting with 3-4 inches on Friday night.

I woke up Saturday morning to, nothing. There was a coating of icy snow, but that was it. When I was out doing errands it did start snowing, big flakes that, with the wind, pelted you, pelted the car. I'd see the flakes hit the car hood and kick up more snow. And then it stopped, after maybe an inch.

Luckily, later in the afternoon it started snowing again, with the wind howling too. Almost a real, old-fashioned blizzard! I took pictures, but it's difficult to really get the sense of everything when it's all the same color, no differentiation between anything, so I stuck a yard stick in the snow and there were 10 inches in the back, and 8 inches in the front.

The snowblower was being balky, and it didn't want to start. I kept at it, as there was no way I was going to shovel all that by hand, and it finally started! So I got a nice clean driveway with minimal effort, though it stopped a couple times, just to annoy me. I was going to start on my neighbor's driveway when it balked again; luckily he stuck his head out the doorway at that point and said to leave it, he'd do it later and he wanted to run the snowblower himself anyway. Good deal.

My neighbor Sue called later and accused me of starting this whole good neighbor thing, as Jerry was then blowing out the driveway of our elderly neighbors, and Brian was blowing out Jessyca's (I hate alternative spellings like that) driveway. When my blower was reliable, I used to do 4 driveways if the snow was deep, figuring that I'd want help if the situation was reversed.

But, pictures:

Arrrrgh!

Some people have kids to color for them, I have Jeff.