Whoa! Look what we got yesterday!

So, we ended up getting 34 inches here yesterday. Davy went out this morning to start shoveling yet again. Here’s a picture of the “cattle shoot” that he carved out off our deck so that we could get to the driveway. Not that it really mattered because our van was buried up to the windows and there was really no place to go.

The kids thought this was pretty special. I think we need to live somewhere warmer. ;)

This is looking out towards the road (that’s the neighbor’s place across the street…to the left of the neighbor’s house, you can see the Adirondack mountains in New York) . We usually park our van up close to where I was standing when I took the picture, but Davy couldn’t get it any farther up the drive from where it is in the pic. The drifts on the left hand side of the van went up to the window. You can barely see the top of our unit neighbor’s car next to her set of stairs in front of her apartment. To the right of the top of our van, you can just barely see the top of the neighbor’s car across the street.

Here’s a close up picture of the neighbor across the street. He’s shoveling himself out. His vehicles were pretty much buried.

The south wall of our house is on the right of this picture. The back wall that you see belongs to the back wall of the utility room out front. The wall on the left is the back wall of our neighbor’s unit. The wind pushed a ton of snow into this little cubby hole between the units. The problem with this is that there are heating vents sticking out from our units back here that need to be kept clear. The lady in one of the front units lost her heat last night because she didn’t keep her vent clear and the furnace blew out. Davy had to go a few times to clear the snow out, which was about 11 feet high, so that our vents didn’t clog up (it could also cause carbon monoxide poisoning if they’re blocked up). He sunk through a couple 6 foot high spots and was afraid he couldn’t get out.

The nice thing about all this snow on that side of the house is that our house has been keeping VERY warm. The first floor is always so cold on that side of the house because the foundation has a lot of cracks in it on that side. It lets so much cold air in under the floor boards. With all that snow around the foundation, the house has been keeping the heat in SO well.

Here you can just barely see the top of our fencing around the garden in our backyard. The trampoline frame was under snow last night, but the wind pushed some of the snow off of it and you could see a little of it this morning. If you look to the left of the neighbor’s big camper, you can see what looks like a black line coming out of the grill of the camper and across the snow. That’s actually the top rim of his above-ground pool. Well…..since it’s under snow, does that no longer make it “above ground”???

Last night, we got a knock on the door at around 10:30 pm. I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth and Davy came in and said, “Did you hear a knock on the door?” I told him I didn’t hear anything, but then we both heard some loud knocking. Davy ran downstairs and opened the door and my youngest brother and his two roommates were at the door. My brother and his roomie had gone up north to pick up the roomie's girlfriend from work and on their way home, they realized they’d never be able to get on the back roads to get home. They could only drive down the major road that we live on (well, not really major in most other places…..it’s just a 2 lane road, but it’s a state road, so it’s kept up really well in storms), so they came here. My brother had to bust through 4 foot drifts just to get to our door. The stayed here for the night on the couch and the floor. I made chocolate chip pancakes for everyone for breakfast.

Speaking of wanting to be somewhere warmer…..Survivor is on tonight. Looking at all the beautiful Fiji scenery will make me feel like I’ve gone on vacation somewhere tropical….at least for an hour. ;)
For any of you that are jealous of our snow and wish they could have some of it, you are welcome to come up at any time, grab a shovel and take it away. I promise to make you a nice hot cup of chai.

cheers!

Comments

[Tracy]

I really love reading your blog. You are so positive and have such a great outlook on everything.

I love the cards you make and share with all of us. I appreciate the creative inspiration you have and hope one day it will wear off on me a little more :)

Thanks for sharing your snow pictures. We only got rain/sleet/ice mix here in Massachusetts. My backyard, like many around me, is a skating rink.

Tracy

[greta]

i would be in heaven but i can see where it would get old....i have never been in real snow...i live int he south where it was a high of 67 yesterday....

[GinaK]

WOW!!! YIKES!! Uhh, maybe you should move to Wisconsin. The weather's better here. LOL!
Gina K.

[Bobbie]

Looks like us! hehehe Though we didn't get 34 inches all at once. You better take a breather as we are getting snow tomorrow (here in Indiana) an that usually means it will be heading your way! But on the 'drier' side of things it will be heating up to a 'balmy' 40 degrees next thursday! Woo hoo! Never thought I'd say I can't wait for 40 degrees! hehee

TFS~~ Bobbie Ü

[Lourin]

Great Whiteness! LOL.. Looks a lot like here now too Erika . You really are a Cheerful Soul. Our kids are enjoying it more than we are here also. What I like about it is that it makes everyone's Yard look Clean! When you live out in the Country like here, inevitably there is some one who's yard looks like Fred Sanford's. Nothing shy of a 22 ft Roll of Dumpster would clean them up .... except a few FEET of Fresh White Snow :o) Maybe I should start a blog and share some pics too. We live about a mile from the Shore of Lake Ontario in New York about Half way between Rochester and Syracuse. We are no strangers to snow up here. My husband slid sideways to the store this morning at the end of our road for milk but was told by the state police he would be going NO further, to head for home. We also Live on a "Major" 2 lane state road.. haha So it's a Little bit plowed this morning. The storm for us started here in the wee early hours of Wednesday and now we are getting hammered with Lake Effect Snow. Guess I should get to working on my Swaps for the Tampa Regional's, I could use a little warmth now, Wanna come with me? :)
Hugs, Love and much Chi. TFS all your creations and real life stories with us.
Lourin

[Kim Schofield]

And I thought we had a lot down here in NH! Oh my, that is a whole lotta snow! Thanks for sharing the great photos and stay warm!!

Kim

[Tracy]

All I can say is WOW!! And no offense, but you can have it ;0)

[Nicole Seitler]

That is insane! How on earth are you gonna be able to go anywhere? Hope you have lots of food in the house. But maybe you're used to this by now... ;)

We just got a few inches and a lot of ice...

[Tracey Wilson]

I've just been showing your pics to my girls (2 & 4) but "snow" is still really hard for them to get their heads around - none of it here in our Australian summer (or winter for that matter). I can only imagine how much of a problem this would be to live with. Does look really pretty tho!

[Rhonda Zeno]

Well Erika you got some great pictures....I enjoyed looking at them. However we got 42" of snow and our neighbors came
over to shovel out our door so we could get outside. Now wasn't that wonderful! Now for the depressing news we own a home in North Carolina and we are here in Vermont? I wish I were in North Carolina!

[Alex (aka Sillybirds)]

Wow that is some serious snow, we neeeeeever get that where we live in the UK, Dorset to be exact right by the seaside!!!

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