I guess my life is not that exciting... I just talk about the weather!
We're in the perfect spot for lake-effect snow! Lake effect snow if when really cold arctic air from Canada passes over the "warmer" waters of lake Ontario, picks up the moisture from the lake and then dumps it on land down wind from the lake. The lake-effect snow bands are generally small and only affect a small area - if you're in that area, then it's like a blizzard - if you move just a couple miles out of the area it's clear.
So from Friday morning to Saturday evening we had some lake effect snow. Here are some pictures to see what we're dealing with.
Friday Morning - driveway clear, some snow from the previous day (about 6 inches on the car).
We drove down to Rich's sister's home about 30 miles southeast of our home and the roads were yucky... we saw 4 accidents on the way down and it took us about 1 hour and 15 minutes to get there. It was a slow drive, but we made it safely (It was our nephew's birthday - otherwise we would have stayed home).
When we got back home that night at about 9:00pm there was about another couple of inches of snow.
Friday night the snow machine was cranking and when we woke up it was piled up - time to shovel!
All done! It looks great! We left the blue car covered (it's our 2nd car, so we didn't want to do the extra work at that time).
Here are some other pictures of the snow piled high! I love the mailbox - it makes me giggle seeing the large snow tufts! Also it's funny to see the huge mound of snow on the bushes! Those are some tough bushes!
We live in such a snowy area that this storm was no big deal - oh look - just another 12-15 inches of snow! Ha ha ha!
1 comment:
I love the pictures of the snow. At least you get something to go along with your cold weather. So far in Iowa all we have had is Cold and Wind. Have I mentioned how much I dislike cold wind. I am looking forward to being there in a month and enjoying the big snows. Right now we are enjoying Houston. By the way it was 80 today in Spring. We opened the windows on the trailer to get a little air. Guess what, no wind. No air at all. I had to turn on the AC. Don't ya just love Houston in the Winter.
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