The Blizzard of 2010

In my own humble opinion, weathermen usually err on the side of being overly pessimistic - in other words, predicting the worst. Well, they missed this one by a mile. For several days, we have been warned that we were to get a big snow storm on Friday night. The predicted snowfall was 4 to 8 inches. Well, they missed that prediction by about 300% - or more.

The snow began to fall slow but steady at about 6:00pm. It started out wet and slushy, solidified a bit, and then began to come down fast and furious. After dinner, Chris and I went out and shoveled about 6 inches off the driveway and sidewalk. We were feeling pretty good that we'd gotten a jump on it. Two hours later, I took the dogs out, and 4 more inches had fallen!!! I shoveled a path to get the dogs to the side yard, but figured it wasn't worth much more effort at 11:00pm.

This morning, we awoke to a true winter wonderland. Because this was also a windy storm,

there was a lot of drifting. We took a measuring stick and began to measure the depth of

the snow. Our first measurement, on the front stoop, was 17". But in parts of the driveway, it was over 2 feet!

It's noon time now and we've shoveling for about three hours. It's a nasty task. Chris is still out there, but I had to take a break. We have almost broken through the end of the driveway but, there, our biggest

challenge awaits -- a 3-4 foot high mound left by the snow plow.

The dogs always have the toughest time in the snow, and this snow is really confusing them -- because they can't see over it! I was willing to let them stay out with us while we shoveled, but they were not interested. [Have I mentioned, they are very intelligent dogs.] They were thoroughly confused because they can't get through it and they can't see what's going on. Bingley seemed stressed out by the whole scene! Darcy was a bit more oblivious, per usual.

I took a few pictures (some of which are posted here) but the pictures (white on white) do not tell the story well. There is no real depth perception in them. But you can believe me. We have a lot of snow!

is no real depth perception.