Blizzard 2011

Before I even begin I would like to say in all of my mind I never would of thought I would post two separate blogs a year apart about a blizzard.

Okay so the blizzard of 2011 was really only an issue for me from the view of my front window. I did not even try to get out Tuesday and Wednesday will be the same. Our office is closed on Wednesday so sledding will be our only reason to depart the beauty of our home.

Here are some radar pictures from early Tuesday of the snow. At 6am were were not fully in the heavy snow band, that is what pink means, heavy snow and white is thunder snow or increased bands which means you get 2 to 2.5 inches and hour. We had those later in day when I began to wonder if Jeremy would make it home.

This is what they were predicting for totals I would guess they were pretty close. According to the best measurements we can get here puts us at 14 inches. It is so hard to figure out for sure because of all the wind but we will go with 14.

Now lets just say Luke's measurements taken every other hour yesterday were a bit off, maybe an inch or two. That is still a foot of snow!! That makes me very happy!

These pictures are after our first shoveling of the driveway. We could not even keep up with the snow falling so we eventually gave up.

Jeremy went out a couple hours later and the rest of us joined him because of guilt shortly after.

Luke was a very good shoveler.

This is our first shovel. The snow was very fluffy but deep, so deep!

Addi was sleeping during our first shovel so she came out the second time and could not believe the amount of snow everywhere. she was especially impressed with the snow on the table at the entry way.

What would you do after all the snow is piled along the side of the drive way. Yeah, me too. Go for a climb.

At first they tried to slide down but decided it was way cooler just to use your own body.

At the top of the world, or at least snow pile.

Snow surfing.

And the slide down.

Today we are going to work on building a snow fort. I think if we spray the piles down with some water they will harder up on the outside and we can tunnel through on the inside. Hopefully, I will have some pictures later. I am a bit worried about the wind chill. That is part 3 of the wonderful storm. Part 1 was freezing drizzle on Monday. Part 2 snow and wind (blizzard) on Tuesday and Part 3 Wednesday and Thursday severe cold and windchill.

I will take Part 2 any day but the others only make me grouchy!!

Jeremy and Luke just came in from one last shovel to totally clear the driveway of all the drifts from last night. We have a clear drive way, a street full of snow and I am certain we are not getting mail today. The mail van thing-y got stuck when she turned on our street and finally got turned around enough to leave. No mail means no bills so I'm good here! The City classifies us as a level 4 road because we are a dead end or cul-de-sac. Actually our road is both so we are most likely the bottom of level 4. They sent out notification that level 4 roads should be plowed later this evening. Good thing we can sled in our own yard because there is no getting out of here!