Snow Day 2

Yesterday and last night we got hit by a massive snow storm. As with last week, I decided to document it in pictures.

Here’s what we saw when I opened the garage door this morning:

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Here’s a better look at the mail box:

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Here’s the front steps:

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It was a colossal snowfall. I’d actually cleared the drive way fully last night, and had to again this morning:

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The snow was deep and heavy. The snowblower was worth it’s weight in gold! All this new snow had to go on top of yesterday’s snow, which itself is on top of the still-unmelted snow from last week. After clearing the driveway, we have a wonderful ice wall edging the sides:

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Yes that’s a normal sized soda can!

And here’s the steps cleared once again. You can see we’re running out of places to put the snow:

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I had to go out for a while afterwards. The roads were cleared, but the snow piles were titanic in places. Here’s a shot taken at school:

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And here’s the school itself:

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I’m guessing we got 20 – 24 inches in total these past two days. On top of the 10 inches last week, this means there is still thigh-high deep snow in our backyard. This is surely a winter to remember!

Master Builder

I got a trip of Metal Earth building kits for Christmas and made them all last week:

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In order, they are the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and the new World Trade Center building. Which one looks the best?

Snow Day (Updated!)

It’s a snow day today. Both our works are closed due to a winter storm. Here’s how it looked around 2 o’clock this afternoon:

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Those footprints are from a delivery guy who had dropped off a package earlier. There’s about 8-10 inches of snow and it’s still falling as I write this.

Anyway I had work to do:

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The snow thrower had no trouble moving the snow and it didn’t take me long to clear the driveway. Although I usually enjoy the task it was unpleasant today since it was bitterly cold (20F), which is why I wore that stupid balaclava 🙂

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I wonder how much snow we’ll get in total? And whether the next storm (on Sunday) will be as big?

Update: I had to clear the driveway again today since we had a few more inches fall since yesterday afternoon. Here’s a shot of the house today:

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All told we had about a foot of snow. It’s very cold – below freezing is forecast for the next week – so it will likely stay around for a while.

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