The day after Christmas started out cloudy with very light snow. At dusk it started to snow harder. Over night the wind howled and we woke up to heavy snow. The picture below shows how hard it snowed. This picture faintly shows Eric's car at the end of the garage at the time of a strong gust of wind, basically obscuring the car.
The wind was blowing in gust around hurricane force. A gust of 74 mph (113 kph) was registered on our anemometer. We received 20 inches of snow (51 cm) in about 18 hours. Drifts 3 feet deep were all around the house. The view across the street to our new neighbors was often obscured by numerous gusts of wind.
Barre waited until afternoon to get out with the snowblower. Here Barre is clearing out the path to the flagpole. The whole process of clearing the driveway will probably have to be repeated again tomorrow since the wind is still blowing hard with much drifting.
Our best for a great New Year!
1 comment:
How incredible! Thanks for the pics of something that is so foreign to us. Today our temperature is supposed to get to the high 20s C and in the western suburbs to the mid 30s. Not nice. However, we have had a lot of rain which has been fabulous for the garden.
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