The snow is piled high this year but these snow banks developed the last three weeks.
Prior to that time, we could see the grass in the front and back yards. Now it looks like the grass is many months away though there is but a month of winter left on the calendar.
The thirty hour blizzard this past weekend, with the air feeling like -30 degrees Celsius, dumped most of this snow.
We could not see anything in our neighbourhood most of that time. The wind gusted to one hundred and twenty kilometers an hour and slammed into the house. It was difficult to sleep upstairs; on occasion it sounded like the roof was lifting. It was a restless night.
During the height of the storm, we saw shingles on the patio. We lost shingles last year as well. With wind over one hundred kilometers an hour, off they go. We were lucky not to have the rain which Nova Scotia had at that time.
Sylvia, my mother-in-law lives nearby in a garden apartment.
Her windows and patio door are covered in snow and are inaccessible.
She lives in a snow fort, though a cozy, comfortable one.
Meanwhile the clean-up continues. Until yesterday morning there was one lane cut through the snow on our street and clearing the snow around the house is a work in progress.
Plows struggle with the heavy white stuff.
Our patio was packed with tons of snow which could cause the deck to collapse.
Snow pile from patio
Our latest effort to clean a path to the patio brought back memories of Buchans, Newfoundland. There the snow drifted during bitterly cold temperatures making every shovelful a huge effort. This latest blizzard created those same snow conditions here.
Every shovelful is a fight and the height of the banks make the job doubly hard.
One of the good things about this past week is the fact that we did not lose electricity during this blizzard.
We were warm and comfortable and continue to be. Furthermore, this too will melt...but not too quickly. We hope.
1 comment:
Marie, I've seen a lot of winters but never that much snow!!
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