Some photos of the snow and sky looking beautiful and benign. This was the pretty fluffy wet snow that sticks to the trees and makes everything look gorgeous. It falls gently from the sky in bloated, fluffy flakes. For more skies visit SkyWatch Friday.
Yesterday we had a different type of snow courtesy of a Colorado Low. This is a weather system that comes from the SW over the Great Lakes. It picks up the moisture from the lakes and then dumps it on us as snow. We escaped serious amounts of snow unlike those who live in the snow belt What we had was annoying enough.
Let me tell you how yesterday went down. I got up early at 5.30 so that I could leave a little early and clear the car of snow etc. When I was clearing the snow I could hear the wind howling and the snow pattering on my coat hood. Small hard pellets of snow in a driving wind. Anyroad, I arrived at work safe and sound and found somewhere to park off the road but on the hill. This was a mistake because when I left I had to negotiate the slope without falling on my arse. I waddled out of that building, shuffling my feet along and holding my arms out to balance – what a sight. I’m useless on ice. Canadians are somewhat different. I see women wearing boots with stilettos and just walking normally, how do they do it?
It had snowed for most of the day and I had to dig the car out the front wheels were surrounded by snow plus the snow plough had gone by and left a chunky heap behind my car. Too high for a scabby Saturn to burst through. Then when I got home I saw that the snow plough had dumped a 2 foot high 6 foot wide heap at the end of the drive. I was expecting this but still my heart sank when I saw it. I parked on the road and started shovelling. No choice really as you can’t park on the road in the winter when the snow plough is due by and more snow was forecast. The drive itself had maybe 8 inches covering it. Very heavy wet snow with water underneath. Too heavy to push it had to be shovelled. Oh yes, it had started to rain too. Heavy rain that meant I had to take my CI off so that it didn’t get wet. It has warmed up too so my coat was too hot and I was steaming inside it. My boots leaked like a politicians office, rain was running off my hood onto my face, my gloves were wet through. After 30 minutes or so one of the boys from our neighbours house came out clutching a snow shovel, oh what joy he didn’t stop at his drive but came over and started shovelling. What a nice lad. A little later MLM was home and we kept on shovelling, we gave up when we had just enough room to park both cars and had made a path up to the house. Phew. We recruited him as snow shoveller for the winter.
Which leads us to today. Our drive is on a slight slope you see, the cars were at the bottom and the snow was at the top. The above zero temperatures meant that some of the snow melted, combine that with some rain followed by a drop in temperature and you have an ice rink at the bottom of the drive. Sheet ice. I stood and wimped volubly. MLM drove the car onto the snow so that I could get in the damn thing – the snow wasn’t slippy, merely crunchy topped.
At work I had to find somewhere to park. all the mini-heaps of snow were now miniheaps of ice, the parking lot has a few inches of solid uneven ice covering it but at least I remembered not to park on the hill this time. A little snow landed today, nothing significant but places nearby had snow squalls. That’s a blizzard with whiteout conditions but only affecting a small area, and we weren’t that area today. We dodged that snow bullet.
Back at home the neighbours lad had almost cleared the driveway. He worked hard at that and the wind is just evil. The evil wind had also broken the storm door, twisting it on its hinges and blowing one of the panes out. Not broken though. A job for MLM.
I don’t have any photos of the nasty stuff, somehow taking photos wasn’t uppermost in my mind. Maybe tomorrow when I inspect for damage caused by the wind and snow tonight.
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