Snow day!

Today is officially a snow day. From what I've heard, every school within 100 kilometers of here is closed, including university, and it's all due to the huge snow storm we've gotten over the past 2 days (and it's supposed to continue all through today too). Here's what it looks like here.

For reference, the fence at the back is 6 feet high. I dug out a bit with a snow blower so you can see how deep it is.




The line of snow on my neighbor's house here is how high the snow drift was.


Here's the pile in the front yard.


2 bushes in front of the house.

As beautiful as these pictures are... I am glad it is somewhere ELSE!!!

Originally Posted by AddieBee

As beautiful as these pictures are... I am glad it is somewhere ELSE!!!

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That's what it looks like here NOW but it's warming up and we're getting a bunch of rain for the next couple of days, so I hope it'll all go away soon!

Originally Posted by Kailie

That's what it looks like here NOW but it's warming up and we're getting a bunch of rain for the next couple of days, so I hope it'll all go away soon!

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Send some of that warmth my way . You can keep the rain. We don't need everything to get more icy than it already is.

I'd actually prefer the snow to what we've been having. The last two days have been rainy and everything is just gross and slushy out there. Give me snow in winter! OK, maybe not 6 feet of it though.

At least today I can see something out the windows but a wall of swirling snow. Yesterday, I couldn't see even the tree 20 feet from the house. I got a 6' high drift across the south doors of the barn, most of the pasture is under feet of snow and it will probably take me three days of digging to get out with anything but the tractor.

The thing about this storm is it is so huge and slow moving; it covered most of two provinces and a few states - I live close enough to the border I can get Plentywood radio station and also Williston. Almost every highway from Prince Albert south down into Montana and North Dakota was closed and remain that way.

As Tiger said, no school, well actually no buses runnig, if a student can get there, the place will be open. Universities in both Regina and Saskatoon are closed, as are technical schools - facilities such as libraries are open but no classes.

Tiger - they say they may not get to the residential streets until the end of the week, and then it is iffy. It can't be very good on the highway either, no traffic at all.

AddieBee - we are pushing that storm east as fast as we can!!! Brace yourself.

Originally Posted by sk_pacer

Tiger - they say they may not get to the residential streets until the end of the week, and then it is iffy. It can't be very good on the highway either, no traffic at all.

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With how slow our plow teams and graters work, residential streets won't be touched for at least 2 weeks. After all, I'm pretty sure they get paid by the hour so they're going to take their time.

That looks about right! It started snowing here on Friday and was still snowing today. Many of the highways are closed.

12 nurses called in today and 4 communication clerks. Unfortunately that meant the rest of us who actually showed up had to cover phone calls and clinics for those who were absent. Fortunately, many patients also called in to cancel because of the weather.

Some of those dang snowflakes escaped and made it to southern Indiana!

Oh wow, I wish we had this much snow, just thinking of a blanket, bed and kitty with snow outside makes me drowsy.. It is supposed to snow this week here too, but it's going to be on the weekend

we had a bit of snow this morning but it warmed up and rained so all gone///

Well, I surveyed the damage and spent 5 hours digging two tractor sized cuts through a drift that is xlose to 1000 feet long and ranges from 2' to 9' in depth and is roughly 80' wide. Of course it cannot be 2' deep where I dug through, one spot was 6ish (heavy on the ish) deep and the other close to 8'. The cut through is 7' wide. The 3' deep by 20+ feet wide that goes across the lane is inconsequential and so is the other drift I busted through by comparison to that snow in the big drift and a good portion of it must be removed and carted away from the house. to the north edge of the property....

I tried for some pics with the phone but haven't the energy left to deal with them

Ugh... you can keep all that snow! I could go without seeing snow for the rest of my life.

Holy snow balls!

Sigh I'm so jealous. We had just the opposite today, a chinook (warm wind) all night and pouring rain that melted all the snow.

I love snow shoeing in winter. I live in some mountains in a Northern state, and yet...there is no snow. WAH!