Snow

[fitzw]

Parts of town have 24" of snow. We have 21" where I have tested the depth — I found this out while I was digging a path from the house to the barn so that my father could feed the chickens and gather the eggs (I ended up feeding the cattle).

The snow is almost too heavy and wet for the plow on the tractor.

Snow turned to rain for a little while, making the accumulated snow even heavier, and then turned back to snow again.

In the immortal world of Linus van Pelt: "It's pitch white outside!"

Comments

[oakmouse]

I feel ya. Ours hasn't finished melting yet and we're supposed to get another foot or two (nobody knows for sure) tomorrow. Take care of yourselves in that pitch white. ;)

[fitzw.livejournal.com]

At least we're prepared for this. Some people (including those who have lived in the Northeast for years) weren't.

[oakmouse]

That's...par for the course, alas.

We sometimes get caught on the hop because we don't tend to mind the news, but we're also usually in a general state of preparedness so the worst that might happen is that we might run out of eggs or have the power go out while soup is in the crockpot. Nothing really serious.

And after all the ballyhooing of the blizzard around here? we got a tiny skiff of fresh snow, and have had hellacious winds.

[harpnfiddle.livejournal.com]

and we got next to nuthin'

[fitzw.livejournal.com]

I like snow. I would prefer that I didn't have to go anywhere when it snows like this, but that's not the way that our lives are set up these days.

My father and I still have to be able to get to the barn (I can wade through it — he needs a path), and emergency vehicles have to be able to get to the house if there's a need (praise the All, there wasn't such a need this time).