Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Didn't miss THIS snow -- oh my!

The cars & our street are out there somewhere. Today's snow on top of weekend's snow and it's still coming down. Sometimes it comes sideways.
Suffice it to say no schlepping of patient or caretaker any where, no malls, no grocery, and lord knows when I'll get out there to try snowblowing or if I have enough gas. Hmmmm. Oh well.
Be warm!
J

Update - 2/11
It did indeed keep coming down all day, all night nearly - at some point blowing and sticking vertically to the siding and entire front of the house like spray-on foam insulation or something. Never seen anything like that -- and I've been through avalanches in the French Alps. This is the most snow I've seen in probably close to 20 yrs and that trip to the Alps. The snow at the end of our driveway is up to my armpits. There are drifts around the cars nearly to my hips.  In the updated photo you can barely see the cars wheels compared to yesterday afternoon's shot.  I think if there was an emergency or M needed to get out of house for any patient related things, or I had to get medicine, or more gas for my picky, finicky, trantrum-prone snowblower (very likely) we could get out through the hole I've dug and plowed at end of driveway. It isn't pretty, nor very big, but it would work and so would the AWD on the Venza ---  I hope. 
 

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Missed the snow ... sort of

Who knew that by going further north, we'd escape the snow. Nary a flake has been seen up here. We kinda forgot about the possibility of impending snow since we weren't at home listening to the mega-news coverage (sorry Jason!) Now I finally look at news online (hey, up here with a toddler and a recovering heart patient -- computer time is limited!) and see Philly set ANOTHER historic snow record. Oh great. Now I'm not sure how we're gonna get into our own driveway when we return. Hopefully since our area mostly missed the record snowfall that the city and Jersey got hit with we'll be ok. 

And I really really really should've found time last week between mall walks to get the snowblower returned from the shop where it's been since December. D'OH!! 

Peace -- and stay warm wherever you may be!

J