Snow Daze

The snow finally stopped about 3:30 today.  We've got a lot extra if anyone would like some?  That would definately be a come and get it yourself sort of thing.  You can start at the front of my truck and keep taking it till we hit the plowed path in the parking lot. :)

 

This was about 12 noon today.

  

This was taken after dark.  Note the way it's changed?  That is from the heat from the building melting some of it off.  Snow only comes in cold weather and is a cold substance.  But oddly enough when there is enough of it.  It acts like an insulator.  Thus igloos are what they are.

 

  

  

  

The front walk.

 

Those lumps you see out there are cars.

 

This is our walk way that was already shoveled out once. :)

 

The left side of my truck.  Umm...about 8 inches on the side there I think.

 

  

Stomping my way out to the door to get to the truck.

I do believe we may be snowed in for a day or two.  Depends on how lazy I feel about going out there with a shovel to dig out.  

I was able to get a shovel at least.  It's this oddly small thing that's only about 3 feel long.  But that's what I could find.  Between that and the entrenching tool I have from the service it will have to do.  

All of the stores are sold out of snow shovels   Oddly enough they still have pleanty of garden shovels and the like.

Amazing what we create.  I feel a bit like one of the characters in a book I read last year.  "Who ordered this?"   Was his line.  

Please don't anyone think this is the way MD always is.  Normally we get Maybe 3 to 4 inches of snow a year and it melts off the same day.  This year the winter has been a bit much for snow.  Minds me a bit of ND when I was stationed there.  We've had 2 major storms and supposedly more to come before winter is done.

Well, what I consider major storms anyway.

I'd love to just sit here, take a leave day on Monday and let the sun melt it off.  But....unless we get some sort of sun flare or global warming really kicks in I'll still be digging out 2 or 3 feet of snow to get my truck out. :)

On the up side.  I'll have the chance to talk more with my neighbors.  The last big storm we had a lot of fellows and even some of the ladies were out helping each other with the digging out.  One fellow I spoke with was just a pleasure to meet an older black gent who simply said "this is our neighborhood".   As he started in on the snow in front of my truck.  It was no grand pronouncement.  Just a simple statement on his part.  I am truly and deeply blessed.

I hear they've called out the national guard for the state.  Seems odd to me as it's really not what I'd consider all that bad.  But I'm not an EMT who has to deal with someone with a heart attack or a house fire either.  So I'll trust the folks who know to do what they do.

I'm sure my Dad would know a good bit about that as he's taken classes for emergency reaction and even wrote a book about the Jacksonville Fire Dept and the history there of.

Be well all.